musings

not kidding people...i need to make some money

jesica — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:42:56 GMT

Do you have a project that needs attention? Need a writer, perhaps? A bookkeeper? Business Manager? Or a personal assistant to do all the dirty work you don't want to do? Want to pay someone to do your laundry? Play with your kid(s)? Cook you dinner? I'm looking for work during the next week in the greater Portland area. I can guarantee that anything you throw my way will be handled with care and great attention to detail. I'm a hard worker, quick learner, able to follow directions, and think ahead. I can be your monkey, your gopher, or your hot secretary. My business card currently reads: Jessica Klinke Folklorist :: Producer :: Fundraiser But I am in no way limited to those professions! My professional experience involves fund-raising (major gift and donor stewardship primarily), theatrical production and stage management, teaching (preschool through college-level...i mean what's the difference, really?), program management, Board relations, ethnographic fieldwork, multimedia production (audio editing, mostly), radio broadcast and podcasting, non-profit management, dancer, barrista, model, and retail shopgirl. I'm also happy to do childcare, farm or garden work, housecleaning, cooking, stilting, jewelry/clothing repping, typing, spreadsheets....I can use a glue gun, a sewing machine and power tools. I like to get dirty. References available upon request.

Talented...Creative...Looking for Work!!!!

jesica — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:07:16 GMT

Do you have a project that needs attention? Need a writer, perhaps? Or a personal assistant to do all the dirty work you don't want to do? Want to pay someone to do your laundry? Play with your kid(s)? Cook you dinner? I'm looking for work between now and August 9th in the greater Portland area. I can guarantee that anything you throw my way will be handled with care and great attention to detail. I'm a hard worker, quick learner, able to follow directions, and think ahead. I can be your monkey, your gopher, or your hot secretary. My business card currently reads: Jessica Klinke Folklorist :: Producer :: Fundraiser But I am in no way limited to those professions! My professional experience involves fund-raising (major gift and donor stewardship primarily), theatrical production and stage management, teaching (preschool through college-level...i mean what's the difference, really?), program management, Board relations, ethnographic fieldwork, multimedia production (audio editing, mostly), radio broadcast and podcasting, non-profit management, dancer, barrista, model, and retail shopgirl. I'm also happy to do childcare, farm or garden work, housecleaning, cooking, stilting, jewelry/clothing repping, typing, spreadsheets....I can use a glue gun, a sewing machine and power tools. I like to get dirty. References available upon request.

OFFER: ride from Portland to Bay Area

jesica — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:18:09 GMT

Hello all you wayfarers, I am driving from Portland to Oakland around June 8th or 9th. Do you, or someone you know, need a ride into the Bay Area. I am willing to stop in Eugene, Ashland, Shasta, anywhere along the 5 for someone willing to share in gas. Be in touch as soon as possible. Thanks!

playa bike

jesica — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:05:39 GMT

are you done with burning man? do you feel like taking a year off? do you have a playa bike that wouldn't mind kickin' up some dust this year? well...i'm looking for a playa bike -- for free, for cheap, or for trade. last year, i truly enjoyed riding around on back pegs while tucker pedaled me across the playa. i have a feeling, that level of our courtship is over and he may not put up with that this year (he still treats me like a queen, but he's got a few more things on his mind). i leave for the temple build on august 8th from portland, but there are also a number of vehicles that it could catch a ride on leaving from the bay area. let me know if you have anything, or pass along to friends who have a legacy to pass on. THANKS! ps: it doesn't need to be pimped out....it just needs to get me where i need to go. of course, extra points if it's dope!

SAGRADA!!! June 12th Benefit for the 2008 Burning Man temple

jesica — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:32:14 GMT

Come create a sacred space with us! SAGRADA, a beautiful event supporting the vision of the 2008 Burning Man Temple! Thursday, June 12 DNA LOUNGE, San Francisco 7pm-4am We invite you to eat, drink, dance and make merry while offering up some abundance to this year's community temple space, BASURA SAGRADA. For years, people have relied on the temple as a physical space of transcendence, a place to connect to their own sense of the metaphysical and provide meaningful offerings and prayers to the beyond. Now, we come to you in great need of your financial support so that we may continue to make the temple a reality! The Sagrada Soiree offers many ways to tithe along with fellow burners, patrons, and temple supporters. With sumptuous dishes creatively served by temple avatars, tasty libations, performances by mind-blowing troupes, live painting with Shrine and others, it's a unique event not to be missed! In addition, we will be hosting an incredible art auction featuring one-of-a-kind works by artists and friends of the temple, some special presentations by the Basura Sagrada creators, and other delights to complete this lavish evening gala. Plus, it's all set to a beautiful soundtrack by some of the best downtempo talent in the city! Later, we will throw open the doors to the entire community, and turn up the heat (and the volume) for some splendid late-night celebration. With more performance, more music, and more art than you can believe, SAGRADA will provide an exciting peek at what this year's temple has to offer! Get your tickets now and support this sacred undertaking! SAGRADA SOIREE — 7pm-4am $150 ($250 for two!)* Hosted reception between 7-10 pm, with VIP access to special performances, presentations, and pre-event admission to the silent auction. Includes ample hors d'oeuvres and drink specials, conversations with the artists, and much more! SAGRADA SHAKEDOWN — 10pm-4am $17 PRESALE $20 AT THE DOOR Let the good times roll! See flyer for details. This is a 21+ event. For tickets, please visit www.dnalounge.com For more information about the Basura Sagrada temple project, visit www.basurasagrada.org *Basura Sagrada is working with MAPS, a generous non-profit foundation, to make a portion of your Patron Level ticket price tax-deductible.

I need Work!!!

jesica — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:09:54 GMT

Anywhere between Portland and the Bay Area, and possibly beyond. My business card currently reads: Jessica Klinke Folklorist :: Producer :: Fundraiser I can guarantee that anything you throw my way will be handled with care and great attention to detail. I'm a hard worker, quick learner, able to follow directions, and think ahead. I can be your monkey, your gopher, or your hot secretary. My professional experience involves fund-raising (major gift and donor stewardship primarily), theatrical production and stage management, teaching (preschool through college-level...i mean what's the difference, really?), program management, Board relations, ethnographic fieldwork, multimedia production (audio editing, mostly), radio broadcast and podcasting, non-profit management, dancer, barrista, model, and retail shopgirl. I'm also happy to do childcare, farm or garden work, housecleaning, cooking, stilting, jewelry/clothing repping, typing, spreadsheets, drug smuggling....I can use a glue gun, a sewing machine and power tools. I like to get dirty. References available upon request.

Baracky: Yo America...Yes We Can!

jesica — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:32:21 GMT

if you haven't seen it...it's TOTALLY worth it!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhIBXNfqMA

are we Outraged yet?

jesica — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:51:30 GMT

When I was an undergrad at UC Santa Cruz, I became heavily involved in the land rights, water rights and human rights issues faced by the Dineh' (Navajo) people living at Big Mountain in the the Arizona Navajo reservation. A small enclave of grandmothers, who survived by herding sheep--which provided them with wool for weaving, and meat for sustenance--along with subsistence agricultural, had endured over thirty years of resistance and struggle against BLM, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Peabody Coal Company. As a witness, I watched these eighty year old matriarchs man-handled by rangers and still hold their ground. Their most active and committed ally, Arlene Hamilton, was mysteriously killed in a car crash on the reservation. Their struggle continues. (Black Mesa Indigenous Support: http://www.blackmesais.org/ ) I'm not intending to bore you but to shed some light on ongoing struggles for spiritual freedom, the maintenance of sacred land, and the protection of human rights that happen right in our backyard. I recently received my latest issue of Wholphin, a quarterly dvd published by McSweeney's in San Francisco, which features rare and unseen films. They featured an excerpt from a recent documentary that bore far too much resemblance to the struggles with which I had been so intimately involved. Below, I have included a section of text from the editor of Wholphin, Brent Hoff, along with links to both a segment of the film and an interview with the filmmakers. I just want to echo Hoff's sentiments; the international effort focused on Tibet is valiant and important. However, let's not forget whose land we inhabit as Americans and the ongoing injustices inflicted by our government on the traditional culture, language, ceremonial life and sacred land of our indigenous populations. getting off my soapbox, ~sica From Wholphin: "In the last few years, while we’ve all been busy “Freeing Tibet” and dutifully monitoring human rights abuses against indigenous peoples half way around the world, filmmakers George and Beth Gage have been documenting equally infuriating human rights abuses taking place right in our own back yard. In a nutshell, for the past 30 years the U.S. government has been quietly, illegally, re-claiming land it had previously ceded to Shoshone Indians and then selling it off to various mining interests. Did you know about this? Neither did we. Despite the fact that the United Nations has passed a resolution condemning our government’s action’s against the Shoshone, actions which at times have involved physically roughing up 70-year-old Shoshone grandmothers, most of us have never even heard of this crisis. But after seeing the film, excerpted on Wholphin No. 5, it is hard to deny that it is a crisis of constitutional proportions, and one that, at the very least, deserves it’s own bumper sticker and the most celebrity-packed summer concert tour our nation’s celebritarian actorvists can muster. The following interview was conducted with George and Beth for the issue." link to view excerpt of "American Outrage": http://www.wholphindvd.com/wordpress/excerpt-from-issue-5-american-outrage/ link here to read the interview with filmmakers George and Beth Gage: http://www.wholphindvd.com/wordpress/2008/03/an-interview-with-beth-and-george-gage-about-their-new-film-american-outrage-now-appearing-on-wholphin-no-5/

neither here nor there

jesica — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:57:31 GMT

back from the west coast, in chapel hill, i realize that i wasn't missing much, wasn't missed much, and miss mostly everything from the interlude i just left. i can't fall asleep without being snugged on one side by raven (which seem sometimes to be less snuggle and more marking territory), and the other by tucker, my warm and generous lover. i lay awake, not sure what position my position is in. my dreams are crazy, once i get there, and i'm not finding a very good reason to get out of bed in the morning. no one to have coffee with, or compel me to move into the next day. i'm ready to be in portland. not done in chapel hill--neither here nor there. i'm straddling this country, with one foot on each coast and my head in the fog. i left my heart in oregon.

way to go tom!

jesica — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:28:17 GMT

first KPFA, now Boing Boing! I found this entry about Tom Sepe's Steampunk Motorcycle: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/18/steampunk-motorcycle-1.html

2008 Temple Plans Posted!!!

jesica — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:20:34 GMT

check it out: www.basurasagrada.org

Experiences of the Tasseograph

jesica — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:40:44 GMT

I'm an ethnographer completing my Master's degree in Folklore. I stumbled upon the Tasseograph Trash Tea Temple while at a festival this summer and was compelled to write my thesis on this creation by Shrine and TukTuk. I have my own meanings and experiences associated with the Tasseograph, but I wanted to get a sense of other people's involvement or experiences with the structure. I am interested to hear any stories, experiences, rituals, or performances at, with, or around the Tasseograph from the community of Burners. Did you get married there? Were you part of the crystal singing bowl enclave that kept the temple vibrating throughout the temple burn? Did you participate in any of the tea ceremonies? Were you dancing there at dawn? Did you have profound moments of contemplation? What meaning does the Tasseograph have to you? Any kind of experience would be helpful as I try to decipher what the Tasseograph means to the community and the culture of Burning Man. You can also visit the blog that I set up: tasseograph.blogspot.com Thanks!! ~sica Please feel free to repost this to any of your local Burner tribes, or distribute amongst your friends.

a moment of silence

jesica — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:07:10 GMT

Marcel Marceau March 22, 1923 - September 22, 2007

preparation

jesica — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:56:12 GMT

something lies inside me deep, cast in the shadows of all that has gone before ~~~~~~~my daydreams, fantasies that slowly make themselves real. where will this take me? where does this line lead... into the cold out from the sun stretching to the horizon where pools of light melt into three billion sunsets. a memorable day a fleeting moment an idea that will spread into tomorrow.

witness ~ M. S. Merwin

jesica — Tue, 30 May 2006 01:29:53 GMT

I want to tell what the forests were like I will have to speak in a forgotten language