"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson

... Ruth Lowe-Tuitt sums up how I feel today. Amen Ruth, amen.

"If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Good News for Humans, Bad News for Chickens.

Below, Seattle locals are shot with world famous icons Humpty Dumpty and R2-D2:

Apparently even if you can't pick your friends' noses, but popular strangers' are A-OK!

At the Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland a few months back, I saw a painting I really liked:

There's a great restaurant in Cleveland called Fat Cats. While wandering the neighborhood around it, I found some graffiti that I really liked. I couldn't find a tag for the artist, alas.

Huh.

Bad news folks. You remember when I was in New York last December, and found evidence people were being turned to brass statues by a medusa-like creature? Well, it's not isolated to the East Coast. I recently discovered the Cleveland library is also infested!

A woman last night told me that I was going to grow a mullet. The reason for this is that the hair on my neck grows faster. The reason for THAT is that it is closer to my heart. QED.

I never thought I'd find someone outlining a complete revision to the way America produces food moving, but this is. I strongly recommend reading this letter from one of the country's foremost food experts to the next President: Farmer in Chief.

Poll #1271877
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Is anyone else going to Circus Contraption's Halloween Party this year?

My friend Andrew Connor sent me an invite to come and see some theater he's doing in Seattle. Unfortunately, I'm out of the city, but I've really enjoyed everything he's done. In case you are in Seattle, and looking for a good time:

‘The Mutant Theatre Caravan’: A traveling road-show of radical performance work from beyond the theatre mainstream

Andrew Connor (The Cody Rivers Show) and Infinity Live have assembled four of the most innovative and daring theatre shows from across the U.S. to tour northwest Washington in the 2008 installment of ‘The Mutant Theatre Caravan’.

Featuring:

‘The Last Hurrah of The Clementines’ by
The Missoula Oblangata (Missoula, MT)

‘Jesus in Montana: Adventures in a Doomsday Cult' by
Barry Smith (Aspen, CO)

'Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/Conversation Storm' by
The Nonsense Company (Madison, WI)

‘Purple Heart’ by
Mike Mathieu (Bellingham, WA) [appearing in Skagit and Bellingham]

‘Murder, Hope’ by
Becky Poole (Seattle, WA) [appearing in Seattle only]

For more info on these shows, please visit: http://infinityliveproductions.com/html/mutant.html

A different double-bill of shows performs each night:
Seattle (at Theatre Off Jackson) - Fri. & Sat., Oct. 3 & 4
Skagit (at The Conway Muse) - Sun. & Mon., Oct. 5 & 6
Bellingham (at the Radio Museum) - Wed.-Sat., Oct. 8 - 11

For schedule and ticket details, please visit: http://infinityliveproductions.com/html/mutant.html

If you go, let me know how it was!

Poll #1257931 Escape!?
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A novel opens as follows: "A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age—regardless of how they look on the outside—pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives." Agree or Disagree?

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
- Thomas Carlyle

Lots to say about Burning Man, just as soon as I find the time to say it.

For now, some thoughts I ran across that I like:

Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, the most dangerous plaything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

( A Letter from the IRV Team )

Well, I'm in Denver playing Magic Again. I got my second ever feature match (I'm so pseudo-famous!) and made the top 64 cut to the second day of the tournament. Yay!

Bedtime, must rest for the next day of the tournament.

Much love to everyone in Seabeck!

Date:	2008-07-26 22:38
Subject:	Evolution Control Committee
Security:	Public
Mood:	sleepy

Unfortunately, the Dante production I wanted to say was delayed until September. Fortunately, there was an ear-catching musical group visiting from San Francisco also at the festival. Their only instrument was a Thimbeltron, which I leave it for you to discover the nature of. Here's a song an interesting video of theirs: