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Dramatic reading of classic libertarian story
Several folks are organizing a dramatic reading/recording of this awesome Eric Frank Russell story:
http://www.abelard.org/e-f-russell.php Participation will be by a mix of 'phone and live (still pondering the details; I'm afraid this will be another one of those tedious 'learning experiences':)
Since I mentioned the idea, several folks have found it interesting and have decided to help, but we can use lots more. This story is *mostly( dialogue, so it'll take little if any adaptation to be an awesome dramatic recording.
Let me know if you're interested! We'll also need sounds editors, etc., so let me know if you want a non-speaking job!
And then we can commence to arguing about how to pronounce "MYOB!" ;-)
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Susan Hogarth
"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund." — F. J. Raymond
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Anarchist discussion group - meeting time/place
If you hate organized oppression, you may be an anarchist! Join us and explore.
A few folks in central NC are starting an anarchist discussion group
to *explicitly* include what might (incorrectly, yet with some
justification) be called 'left anarchists' and 'right anarchists'
(sometimes called anarcho-capitalists or agorists).
The premise of this group is that the differences between these two
groups, while significant, are in fact smaller than between the
political 'left' and 'right' and any form of anarchy. The truth is
that we don't know what wide-scale real freedom from organized
oppression would look like. An unfortunate attitude of mistrust
between those who believe (loosely) that the use of capital is
organized oppression and those who believe (again, loosely) that any
attempt to curtail the accumulation and use of capital represents
organized oppression has kept us apart in a classic divide-and-conquer
mode. The terrible irony is that this isn't even necessarily a
deliberate divide-and-conquer - we have done it ourselves!
Our goal is to listen, and to share, and to not let vocabulary
differences keep us from understanding the underlying concepts of
freedom. If you would like to be a part of that, you are welcome!
Please leave your defensive attitude and you preconceptions behind!
First meeting next Sunday (14th) at 9am at the Caribou Coffee in Cary
at Kildaire Farm and Maynard. Feel free to invite others. Questions
can be directed to Susan Hogarth at hogarth@gmail.com
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Susan Hogarth
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H.L. Mencken
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Bread!
I think I finally have this bread thing down. Thinking about selling a few loaves here and there. This particular loaf was made with mostly Montana Gold wheat, with a bit of other wheats mixed in, ground in the Nutrimill, and prepared in the kick-ass Zojirushi bread oven. It rose so much it nearly blew the lid off - I get carried away with the gluten and yearst, I think. Very light, seems to keep well (though it only lasted a day or so, it was so good.)
Bread!
I think I finally have this bread thing down. Thinking about selling a few loaves here and there. This particular loaf was made with mostly Montana Gold wheat, with a bit of other wheats mixed in, ground in the Nutrimill, and prepared in the kick-ass Zojirushi bread oven. It rose so much it nearly blew the lid off - I get carried away with the gluten and yearst, I think. Very light, seems to keep well (though it only lasted a day or so, it was so good.)
From Wm. Gibson's "Spook Country"
[A] 1992 calendar...decorated with a drastically saturated daytime photograph of the New York skyline, complete with the black towers of the World Trade Center. These were so intensely peculiar-looking, in retrospect, so monolithicly sci-fi blank, unreal, that they now [2006] seemed to Milgrim to have been Photoshopped into every image he encountered them in.
The Plott Thickens!

Well, I am working in 'thickening' him, anyway!
I've always (well, since discovering there WAS such a thing) wanted a Plott hound, and by a pretty crazy series of coincidences, last week I got one!
Some pics of the new dog, Nash (and Kate the beagle who is in her last few weeks I think), and Toad-puppy, and chickens, and husband) are here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hogarth/2009apr12#Bill (who is NOT a hunter) thinks have a dog bred for bear, boar, and wildcat hunting gives him 'mad hick cred' :)
colliething 2.0 on hay bales

This was taken on our Sunday morning walk.
LP presidential Straw Poll
A bit early, perhaps, but it's fun to speculate on possible candidates.
http://lp-discuss.org/polls/index.php?pid=20090402013104399