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There is No Perfect Place, Yes I Know this is True
I think, despite it all, that I live with a lot of illusions. Key among them, perhaps the biggest of all-time, is that there is some place – a brief stopping point or a full destination – where everyone will…
Transcript of Notebook Jottings from October 2007 Fast
The following is a direct transcript of the notes I took while immersed in my ~40-hour fast in the woods (41.5 hours of water fasting, 31 hours in the woods). Background information available here and here. I briefly thought about…
Duck and Cover #771
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Who’ll Stop the Rain?
When it rains in the Tenderloin, it’s easy to lose your footing. Not only is the rain itself slick in this oft-forgotten neighborhood of San Francisco, but the sidewalks are so often coated with various debris that it mingles with…
Duck and Cover #770
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Out of the Woods
Just dropping a note to let everyone know that I am out of the woods (literally), having spent about 31 hours immersed in the woods and 41.5 hours without food. I wrote extensively in a notebook while I was out…
Fry Day
It’s Friday, I’m in hate. I didn’t write anything here last Friday, save for posting the week’s final Duck and Cover. It was about an Embassy, which is supposed to be an extension of diplomacy and peace, being unable to…
Duck and Cover #769
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Save the Drama for Your Llama
When work feels like sixth grade, there’s really something wrong. I didn’t even go to sixth grade! Is this the penance I have to pay for that small feat of elusion? A house divided against itself cannot stand. So who’s…