{"id":515,"date":"2015-01-30T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2017-06-20T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:19:39","slug":"is-it-spring-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Is it spring yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day, another post. Well, not quite.
\nSpent Saturday driving around Portland trying to get donations for the school auction. Got a lot of business cards and that’s it. Smelled like cigars too, though I found a place that sells balkan tobacco. That brings back memories.
\nSunday-church, helping E’s friend with laundry.trying to keep the house together.
\nEarly in today-it’s MLK day, so no traffic on MLK. Got stuff done, late bus, new driver made me late. To store, lasagna for dinner, S to bed, up late-ish. Up today, late in, problems with database. Finally got them fixed after 4 hours with 2 parameter changes-blecch.
\nThis week is flying by. Thursday already. Not much going on-M got a new forearm cast-glow in the dark. Got a donation from a few distilleries, a winery, and a cigar place. Friday is done-getting stuff done-need to pay some bills. M’s birthday.
\nAnd another week has flown-busy, not caring so much. Don’t remember Saturday, church Sunday, tidy house, skipped gamelan-M is not feeling well. And he is worse, and E has having blurry vision. Getting a lot of work done, though. I think it’s time to call this post-a few more links and the listening list. A friend is borrowing our car this weekend.<\/p>\n

Links:<\/p>\n

Searching for Radical Democracy<\/a>,\u00a0The World We are Shaping Is Feeling the Strain<\/a>,\u00a0America’s Class War Explained in 1 Chart<\/a>,\u00a0Life, Liberty, Happiness: Health, Food, Shelter<\/a>,\u00a0Corporations Are Stealing Billions In Tax Breaks<\/a>,\u00a0How Propaganda Conquers Democracy<\/a>,\u00a0How America’s Wealthy Stole the American Dream<\/a>,\u00a0It\u2019s time for a revolution<\/a>,\u00a0Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk<\/a>,\u00a0We Are This Close to Losing Our Democracy to the Mercenary Class<\/a>,\u00a0Why Do Republicans Live In A Fantasy Land?<\/a>,\u00a0I Helped Start the Religious Right<\/a>,\u00a0The Middle-Class Squeeze<\/a>,\u00a0Are We on the Verge of Total Self-Destruction?<\/a>,\u00a0Why We All Cling Blindly to Our Beliefs<\/a>,\u00a0Scientists Say Rise in Sea Levels Is Faster Than Feared<\/a>,\u00a0Class War Is Being Waged by the Rich Against the Poor<\/a>,\u00a0Half of America in Poverty<\/a>,\u00a0The Pope Francis revolution<\/a>,\u00a0American liberals and conservatives think as if from different cultures<\/a>,\u00a0State of the Union and Inequality<\/a>,\u00a0You will be shocked at how ignorant Americans are<\/a>,\u00a0Senate Republicans Remove ‘Civil Rights And Human Rights’ From Subcommittee Name<\/a>,\u00a0New Study Shows Why It Makes Absolutely No Sense to Blame the Poor for the Financial Crisis<\/a>,\u00a0The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy<\/a>,\u00a0\u2018We Are Going to Destroy the Greek Oligarchy System\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Putting Radical Life in Schools<\/a>,\u00a0The Killing of America’s Creative Class<\/a>,\u00a0This Map Reveals Just How Unequal The So-Called Recovery Is<\/a>,\u00a0“Holy S**t, What a Nightmare This Turned Into”<\/a>,\u00a0Super Bowl for the Rich<\/a>,\u00a0America Is a Terrified Country<\/a>,\u00a0As Inequality Soars, the Nervous Super Rich Are Already Planning Their Escapes<\/a>,\u00a0Downsize Democracy For 40 Years, Here’s What You Get<\/a>,\u00a0The Collapse of Europe?<\/a>,\u00a0US Incarceration System Facilitates Breakdown of Society<\/a>\u00a0and finally…10 Reasons Christian Heaven Would Actually Be Hell<\/a><\/div>\n
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Listening to:<\/p>\n

david byrne, Veruca Salt, Sneaker Pimps, Yes, Frank Zappa, Japan, Tao Te Ching, The Residents, R.E.M., Rage Against The Machine, Dockta Valkus, Gil Scott-Heron, The Future Sound Of London, attack attack attack, Curved Air, Anugama, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Robert Fripp, Built to Spill, Gil Scott-Heron, Babe The Blue Ox, The Crystal Method, Peter Gabriel, Soundwalk, Earth, Steve Reich, Gyudmed Tantric Monastery, Steve Roach, Peter Gabriel, Coyote Oldman, Babe The Blue Ox, Brand X, Radiohead, gamelan, Brainscapes, Harold Budd & Brian Eno, Dead Can Dance, Skinny Puppy, Morphine, John Lennon, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, David Canright, Neil Young, insanic4, David Bowie, Throbbing Gristle, Melvins, return to forever, Bhagavad Gita, Pink Floyd, Material, Peter Gabriel, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Brainscapes, Rage Against The Machine, Japan, U2, Darshan Ambient, Berlin, Harold Budd and Brian Eno, The Aphex Twin, Amethystium, Dutilleux, Michael Stearns, Xpando, David Sylvian, Genesis, Legendary Pink Dots, Melvins, Cult, Saluki Regicide & Mystified, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Roger Eno, Christopher Fleeger, Weezer, Drepung Tehor Khangtsen, Earth Ear, Sarah McLachlan, Jean-Luc Ponty, Philip Glass, Lee Perry, E. Cook, Brian Eno, Anonymous 4, Gyuto Tantric University, Tori Amos, Beck, Anne Clark, Tchaikovsky, Gamelan, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Allan Holdsworth, Earth, Peter Gabriel, George Clinton, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Salam, Harold Budd & Brian Eno, Skinny Puppy, Charles Lucy, Renaldo & The Loaf, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Touch 33, Anugama, Akashic Crow’s Nest, Led Zeppelin, The Residents, Harold Budd, Smashing Pumpkins, Mogwai, Gentle Giant, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, John McLaughlin, mloski, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Brannan Lane, Chris Breemer, Jefferson Starship, The Upsetters, aodl, Hole, Megadeth, Christopher Bailey, Christophe Willibald Gluck, Art Of Noise, Steve Reich, Todd Rundgren, florian fernbacher, Echoes of Nature, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Sneaker Pimps, Genesis, Babe The Blue Ox, Anne Clark<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day, another post. Well, not quite. Spent Saturday driving around Portland trying to get donations for the school auction. Got a lot of business cards and that’s it. Smelled like cigars too, though I found a place that sells balkan tobacco. That brings back memories. Sunday-church, helping E’s friend with laundry.trying to keep the … <\/p>\n

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