i ll be spending the back half of june in portland. as part of a bike month series of public events,
i ll be calling a performance bicycle ride such as we have developed in vancouver.
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people meet in a well known public place, and follow marshalls on a group ride to a series of spots with good natural acoustics
for performances of muscular bikey spoken word and dances or tricks.
i am setting this up so i can share... read more

your fossilosopher is a man of prayer.
no, i don't stammer and struggle to talk to god:
i dance fluidly with the galaxy
and i invite you to weave your intentions with mine.

i pray while riding my bike.
for me my bicycle is a prayer wheel, an altar, an ikon of the stardance.
sometimes i weave a card into the spokes,
especially to remember someone with whom i have ridden
who hath passed on to the galaxy.
i sweat and i offer my warmmoist soulbody to the universe.
i focus my ... read more

my blog is a series of short essays, not really time-sensitive journaling, but i have moved this one up because it is quite important to me. i am concerned about right livelihood and about aligned ritual. i am not sure what to say to or about the large and powerful community of beautiful "alternative" people drawn together by a huge bonfire, with what acknowledgement of the atmosphere.

i urge others to learn to pray and make carbon-neutral ritual by burning the internal fire of life in ou... read more

it looks like the core team that produced the "rocky dino opera" will be reviving it
in a series of performances in august and september 2009.

it is a rock opera based on rocky horror,
but this time brad and janet are kidnapped
by the dinosaurs against fossil fuels and the bikesexual dino tamers
and this provides a framework for a series of bike cultural performances
that deconstruct brad and janet's car addiction.

we produced a version in 2001 at the fringe theatre festival... read more

starsong,
born of mystery ocean,
starsong,
born of ocean music,
starsong,
this world we live in,
starsong,
this world we know.
lightcloud,
spiral weaving,
lightcloud,
this world we see.

the heartbeat
of the universe
pulses and sings
from out of dreaming
on one drum,
on one rimless drum.