Tag: 2007

  1. Now this is some hardcore Max Headroom-type stuff, here.

    30 September 2007

    Yes, folks, there are televisions bolted to the tops of gas pumps in LA, or at least at the gas stations that my cow-orkers and I visited during our time on the west coast. They're all tuned to local news stations or CNN so that you can keep an eye on your stock prices or the traffic situation in LA while you're gassing up.

    I was half-expecting to see a women pushing a baby carriage with a television in it down the sidewalk whilst pumping fuel.

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  2. Kite Day 2007, and other things.

    05 August 2007

    Yesterday afternoon, downtown Washington, DC saw a number of brightly coloured rainbow kites of all shapes and sizes added to it sky for LGBT Kite Day 2007, the local LGBT community's way of tugging on the sleeve of the people in power to remind them that we're here, we pay our taxes, and we vote.

    Because I just about pulled an all-nighter Friday night I wound up sleeping until 1100 EST5EDT on Saturday morning, so I didn't get the early start that I hoped to have. In fact, I left the apartment shortly after noon local time and hiked to …

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  3. More WtT stuff.

    22 June 2007

    After the main rite on Saturday, everyone sort of split up and went off to do their own things for a while. Lyssa and I went down to the kitchen to grab dinner, which was a potluck assembled out of dishes supplied by everyone at Thresholds this year. Corvaxgirl was kind enough to take command of the kitchen while the rest of us up top were doing witchy-type stuff to make it all happen. A few weeks ago, Hasufin and Lyssa canned a couple of quarts of chicken soup, so our contribution was a box of one quart jars of …

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  4. Now I've got some free time, how about a bit more about WtT X?

    19 June 2007

    What a week. As the Finn once said, "There's no rest for the wicked," and that seems to be the absolute truth anymore. Between driving, running around, paperwork, getting things together, and a whole right host of other things, I've barely had any time to sit down and write a proper entry. Last night was something of an anomaly because I'd managed to free up some time and do something with it.

    So let's see if I can do it again.

    Lyssa and I got up at some point on Saturday morning, cold, shivering, damp in ways that H.P …

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  5. Back in DC, safe and sound and wondering what in the hell happened.

    11 June 2007

    Last week some very good friends of Lyssa and I (Heron61 and Teaotter) stayed with us for a couple of days, and then we headed out to the Four Quarters Farm for the gather called Walking the Thresholds - camping for three days in the middle of the woods of Pennsylvania, completely off the grid, with good friends and extended family, eccentrics one and all, for company.

    Sounds like fun... and it was, for the most part.

    Teaotter went to stay with Laurelinde and family around the middle of last week, so there were only three of us who packed up …

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