Okay all you Tribesters, get ready to diss me because I'm about to make a blasphemous admission. I have a page on MySpace, that evil NewsCorp thing that is anathema to everything that Tribe.net stands for. (I don't really know about that last part, but I'm standing pretty firm on the evils of NewsCorp -- Fox News watchers have been documented as the most ill-informed segment of the US population on several important fronts, and for good reason.)

Drifting back on topic for a sec, I'm finally putting some energy into getting my Tribe space set up. This will be something like my seventh blog, given those I have on Blogger, MySpace, LiveJournal, and ArchaicRevival. Kraziness! I might even bring 'Bye Bye Berta' back because that shit never really gets old--well, maybe it does. I'll explain that later. Let's just say I was in love with a Succubus for four or five years, I'm in recovery, and we'll just leave it at that.

So what's the point of my being here? I suppose it really is like my tagline says, that I'm here to connect with beautiful people. I'm into some different things, most of which are in some sort of harmony with each other. But externally some will seem contradictory or hypocritical. Some people on the path of meditation, yoga, etc. are going to find fault with my entheogenic interests, or the fact that I include dead animals in my diet. Some lefty friends are going to be shocked, SHOCKED that I enjoy certain forms of 'Adult Entertainment.' (There are downsides to that particular vice worthy of some discussion, just not here, not now.) And what the fuck is up with television? Yeah--I watch it. I enjoy it. Too. Much. A sort of guilty pleasure. TV and porno...holding me back from becoming what I want to be..maybe?

Well, having joined the Osho caravanserai back in the early 80s, my path could be called a Tantric one where all things are permitted, so long as there is intention for bringing awareness into whatever it is.

And I'll admit something else up front--I tend to be overly self-conscious when I write things that are public, and this messes with my writing. I hope as I do more of it I will drop the self-consciousness and get better connected to honing the craft of translating impressions of objects and energies into something meaningful and even relevant to other people's experience. I guess what I'm getting at is, full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!