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Monday, February 6th, 2012
For the love of dolphins, send your fruit to Paris
So there is an address in Paris. Los Uzureau have already moved in, and I’ll be there 1st March. Until then I’ll be in the bay area, but better to just send the letters on to Paris. They’re more valuable that way Ankurbhai c/o CHEZ UZUREAU 108 blvd la Villette Paris 75019 France And [...]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Training manuals for sustainable agriculture, Liberia
In the same vein as the last post, just trying to make some work I did last year accessible, as I[m realizing it could be useful (as people email me about it). In the same file as, “less email, more mangos!” So please find the work I did for Welthungerhilfe / German Agro Action in [...]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
A Simple, Cheap, Desktop GIS System to Visualize, Analyze, and Share Your Data
Not a traditional post, but realizing through emails I{m getting that I did a terrible job of sharing some of the work I did in Liberia, and some people would like to have access to it. So here is a pdf describing the system I set up for WHH Liberia{s Urban and Periurban (UPA) Agriculture [...]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
2012 Is Gonna Get You
today i bring to you a few new years gifts in honor of the gregorians, and the recent full moon. you don’t have to open them. they can just sit there on your mantle, or archives. forever. but first, just a little reminder about the InYourHeadNess of it all. as in, the 36 hour bus [...]
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
A momentary lapse of awareness
The travel has been serious. Monday from Paris to DC. A few hours in Spa World. A few hours outside of it. Tuesday morning flight (from the old terminal of) National airport, through Denver to Phoenix. And a carpool down to Tucson (pronounced with an ‘x’ of course) on Thursday. I’ve been really excited about [...]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Success and failure in the belle france
So in the internet world I think it’s called a total Fail when you do something incorrectly. Like move to Paris for a month and keep your old DC mailing address. And remember to update it 6 days before you leave Paris. Luckily, everything else about this month has been a Smashing success. [...]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
The belly of the beast
There’s been less attention than time in the past lunar cycle to properly expose this, but I recently from Washington to Washington. That’s right, I’m neighbors with JFK’s body and the Brazilian embassy in Washington DC. Parties and letters to: 2912 16th St. NE Washington DC 20018 Directions for the car-free and bike-impoverished: [...]
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Arab Money Can’t Finish
Ok. Now that you’re already sold because of the copious and frequent updates from our Monrovian Palace and the lush welcoming tourist industry of Rebuilding Liberia, I need to send out some travel information. Seriously though, a short, direct plug getting to the point of what every email should be telling your heart: “come visit”. [...]
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Not writing no more
So it hasn’t been easy, but between the faux busyness and the real business I’ve done a damn good job of not writing (but once) in the last 31 days. I’ve succeeded enormously in not writing about our amazing week in the Italian countryside, now down to its last drops in my memory just as [...]
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Yesterday on the Congo Town Beach
I figured it out, finally. All I need is for everybody I have ever Loved to be here with me Right Now Running off the far end of the day Twilit surf hard hitting the striated sands at 20 degrees The cascade of scrambling crabs diving into the wreck one after another Even as their [...]