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See, I told you I was a pirate. Argh!
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Check out my hat. I'm a pirate! Argh!!!
So here I am again. I think the most familiar location in my life, isn't the top of the mountain, or in the valley of despair. Not the beach of relaxation, or the rock quarry of work. It's the crossroads.
Moved to Portland last February, which means Cheryl and I have been living here for a year now. Last fall, I was promoted to Store Manager of a Discovery Channel Store - the highest paying job I've ever had. Finally broke me out of the $20,000 per year range on income. But I was miserable...
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This will be the second holiday season I spend working in retail. I work in a specialty gift shop, as most seem to desribe it, based off of a major cable network with several channels. This store in a mall in one of the largest, and richest, metropolis areas in one of the richest countries in the world.
It is amazing to me, as a practicing anthropologist, the idea of what is occurs every holiday season in this culture. It is simply one giant pot luck!
The wealth of the people and the co...
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The line from Seinfeld is always good for a laugh with me. But it has never been truer, though for different reasons, than now.
Remember the excitement as a kid when you went to see Star Wars? Did you have high hopes when Episode One was being released? Yeah, call me geek, but I was there at the midnight showing. And left, somehow disillusioned. It wasn't just Jar Jar Binks. Whatever deeper meaning, human meaning, the earlier films had was not there.
The subsequent episodes were seen du...
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San Francisco has been all right. I grew up near by it, so maybe I take it for granted. I fell in love here. I love the ocean. But the City itself has not really grown on me. Maybe it is my fault, since I have only really worked here, but haven't really joined in any really social activities. I haven't really gotten to know anyone.
I spent the last week in Portland. And I loved it.
Overall it reminds me of Berkeley and Marin combined. It has a positive progressive culture, and the overa...
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I am writing more often these days. While sitting at the computer to write, I would find myself reading forums, and posting around the net. It made me want to see how Tribe was doing, and those people I had connected with there.
It seems like Tribe is slower. I know - three days, and here is Jack's verdict. And yes, I am actually going through all my old tribes, and checking out all the posts. My eyes are strained. It is a curious bit of digitial archeology.
I wonder who I've forgotten,...
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February 12, 2004
Whack Jack in his 1-Pack or the Sack!
Jack's got Flack with a Stack o' game Crack!
The Hack he'll Attack to your front or Back!
He busts Smack onto your Slack Buttack!
Jack-o-Jon, as he is lovingly known by ... me ... is the coolest dude. He kicked me some ShadowRun shit like I can't describe. If I ever get a cybermod arm, he'll be the first to feel the grateful grip of my STR 10 handshake! :>
Mad props to Jack Schmack and C for being part of the crew that makes my lowly apartment feel like a gathering place for fantastic adventures.
Give Jack! all of your damn MONEY!!!
(He's trustworthy, and he'll only do what's best with it.)
January 5, 2004
Jack is quite wonderful, in every way possible really. I want to be some piratey slut so he can ravage me, but even if that would never happen i still wish him everything he could ever possibly want, because he very much deserves it.
PUZZLE PIRATES FO LIFE!
December 3, 2003
If you are reading this, you might not know how great it is to hang with Jack! If he only lived closer ....
November 9, 2003
Jack is a cool dude. It was great to meet you at the Tribe party. Thanks for the cards - and I wish I'D held on to your hat ;)
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20somethings,
Buddhists Just Wanna Have Fun,
double posters!! double posters!!,
eXalted,
Fromps,
Indie RPGs,
Insomniacs,
Jacks ONLY,
Johnny Depp,
Kinkoids Unite!,
People who've never been 2 Burning Man,
poster art,
Profile Mania,
Quentin Tarantino,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Robots,
RPGs,
SafeContainer,
Scorpios,
Slam Poetry,
Spoken Word Written,
Tenacious D,
The Muppet Show,
The Mythical Nice Guy,
What's your MEANness?,
World of Darkness,
Zen Buddhist Scoundrels,
Lost in Transition
(blog entry)
So here I am again. I think the most familiar location in my life, isn't the top of the mountain, or in the valley of despair. Not the beach of relaxation, or the rock quarry of work. It's the crossroads.
Moved to Portland last February, which ...
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Annual Materialistic Worship Ritual
(blog entry)
This will be the second holiday season I spend working in retail. I work in a specialty gift shop, as most seem to desribe it, based off of a major cable network with several channels. This store in a mall in one of the largest, and richest, metro...
read more
Serenity NOW!!!
(blog entry)
The line from Seinfeld is always good for a laugh with me. But it has never been truer, though for different reasons, than now.
Remember the excitement as a kid when you went to see Star Wars? Did you have high hopes when Episode One was being ...
read more
City of Fog to City of Roses
(blog entry)
San Francisco has been all right. I grew up near by it, so maybe I take it for granted. I fell in love here. I love the ocean. But the City itself has not really grown on me. Maybe it is my fault, since I have only really worked here, but haven't ...
read more
Tribal Observations & Prior I Ties
(blog entry)
I am writing more often these days. While sitting at the computer to write, I would find myself reading forums, and posting around the net. It made me want to see how Tribe was doing, and those people I had connected with there.
It seems like T...
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