I just realized that Jack was looking around for this, which isn't live yet. Wasn't. Is now or you wouldn't be reading it ... Got a Linux server but you don't know your password? It happens. Usually it happens because someone set it up two years ago and since then ...
So I've made a discovery, sort of like the theory of relativity or the pythagorean theorum, but much more banal. Roughly it is this: before you leave for a foreign city you should at least peek inside a guidebook. Especially if you are the sort of person who has exactly ...
Last summer I spent a week camping in a field in Goshen New York and helping out at "The Community Supported Garden at the Empowerment Center" -- the garden/farm is a project of the Highbridge Community Life Center. I spent a few days shoveling manure with two teenage interns, ...
...that I probably ought to keep to myself for now, until I can whittle it down to something managable. Major! Court! Victory! Major! Court! Victory! Sort of. Elana asked me to write about the Critical Mass ruling on the DMI Blog but I don't really have the words. There is a language for this stuff, for talking about anarchy and political repression. A language I don't have much practice in. The lawsuit (and the ruling) don't have much to do with bikes or sustainable transportation or traffic or any of that. It is about free speech and freedom of association. In a parallel universe, one where all stereotypes about cops (they live in Jersey and Long Isand with above ground pools and don't really understand why we all feel compelled to live in this godforsaken place that they're sworn to protect) are just truths, the NYPD spends a lot of time fretting about anarchists. They don't really know what the word means, anarchy, but they know it is somehow contrary to neatly edged lawns and obedient school children who do their homework and divide neatly by gender for afterschool ballet and baseball. Figure skating, or jazz dance if they are going to be unique. Maybe karate for the boys who insist on standing out. So over there, in that parallel universe, all you have to do is whisper your code words and the courts, which of course are sworn to uphold all things neatly edged and fertilized, will wink and say "oh? You say they are anarchists? Well. We know just what to do with them." The radicals are thrown in the clink, foaming of mouth and wild of eye.
What: Abada Capoeira Batizado When: April 1, 2006 1pm ends: 3pm Where: St Marks Church, 131 East 10th Street, New York NY (at 2nd Ave) Many years ago (not that many, actually) I started playing capoeira with Mestre João Grande. I had no idea he was a legend, I have no idea how I ...
What:A Benefit for the Library Education Forum When: Friday, February 17 at 8pm Where: ABC no Rio, 156 Rivington St, New York, NY link: http://libraryeducationforum.info For just $5 you get music, cheap beer, zine readings and a screening of Party Girl, the glamorous library movie in which Parker Posey, who has ...
I've inherited a Plone site and as I try to find my way around I keep hitting infuriating walls. Infuriating because new ways of working always infuriate me. I'm open to the possibility that the problem is me, but it still gets me peevish. So, for starters, all the ...
Here's the letter, now you can send some money! Dear Friends and Fellow Cyclists, Last year, you provided a unique opportunity for New York City high school students by sending four teens from Recycle-A-Bicycle to the League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. for three days of learning and lobbying for better bicycling. Thank you! Karen Overton and the four Recycle-A-Bicycle students created quite a buzz around the Bike Summit and Capitol Hill. This was the first time in the Bike Summit’s five year history that a delegation of high school students participated. These young activists from the Big Apple made an impression. They returned home motivated to make the Five Boroughs a better place to bike, and since the Bike Summit, participants from across the country and Congressional staff have remarked on the energetic youth from New York City who love to ride bikes. Now, we aim to raise $2,200 to send six Recycle-A-Bike students to Washington for the sixth annual National Bike Summit where they will learn how they can effect change, and have an impact on something they’re passionate about. Please join us again and contribute to Recycle-A-Bicycle’s 2006 National Bike Summit scholarship fund. Donate on-line at http://www.recycleabicycle.org/donate.html. Click on “Network for Good” and then “Donate Now” – be sure to write “Bike Summit Scholarship Fund 2006” in the “designation” box. Or, see below for other ways to contribute. Cut to the chase or
Here is my shocking hypothesis: generally speaking good health is a matter of balance. Decadence (fat, liquor) in moderation, a variety of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Excercise in moderation, not in excess. Sleep enough, drink water. Drastic weight changes are hard on your body. This isn't news, and yet for ...
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