I received sad news this morning from several good friends of long-
time mad movement activist Judi Chamberlin in Massachusetts. I was set to volunteer at Judi's house to help archive her... >> more

On October 16th I flew from Oakland, California (thriving hub of cultural production in the modern world), to Omaha, Nebraska (?), to visit a conference called Alternatives '09. The conference is a... >> more

i think my greatest satisfaction of the last four months of South East Asian travel would have to be washing my face, washing my feet, and taking a shit after 1000km's of hitch hiking over 3-4... >> more

A late Tuesday night. Walking on my own through SF skyscraper chasms. The whiff of weed sinks like mist over the blocks around the club and I round a corner to its hazy epicentre and find a grin of... >> more

Things that have made me ashamed of the Australian nation:

Australian Shame #1.

Moving into a large co-op (communal sharehouse) in Berkeley I was happy to find out that one of my housies had a... >> more

The following is unpolished and downright grubby. But Tom Cho reassured me that we all need to write a few stinkers so we can refer back to and see how much we've come. Here's one for the... >> more

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there is obviously something that we travellers are looking for,
or running from;
and it's sometimes the same thing.
some come to find themselves,
others to lose themselves,
and some just... >> more

Stuff in America you don’t see on the TV

- Bluejays.
- Micro-packaging and the extent of disposable waste. (I keep being given cutlery in plastic packagin which also contains little paper salt... >> more

By chance, the morning after flight, I’m roadtripping up highway 99 to the great Sierra Nevadas with random good fortune. I sit in the back of the car with a young Panamanian art-school grad with a... >> more

San Diego, 4:50pm.
Well rested after my train peeled past Baywatch beaches on the sunset coast to San Diego. My journal reads: ‘I feel like I’m in a movie with too much product placement for... >> more