a note on the recent lack of updates

Posted on February 16, 2009

hey folks,

just a quick personal note to let ya’ll know that the lack of original posts over the last month or so is ‘cuz I started classes in Architecture in January so between that, work, and music I haven’t had much time to write.   Depending on how that goes I may not have time to write much for a while so this blog may transform more into a log of interesting news and articles I find elsewhere and want to share rather then a blog of my rants and raves.   you can also expect to see articles on sustainable design start to be in the mix a bit more then they’ve been in the past.

so why architecture?  mostly because I can’t stand working retail, freelance web design is unpredictable, and the only career path I’ve been able to find for political science is teaching.  not that there’s anything wrong with teaching, but I’m just not that good at it.  architecture is something I’ve been interested in for a long time but never pursued.  City college in SF has a solid (and cheap!) program to get me started and if it turns out I’m any good at it I’ll try to pursue it to a masters and maybe finally be able to get a job where I don’t have to worry about starving if I take time off to work on my music.

besides, if our movement is gonna rebuild the whole world we’re gonna need people who know how to build, and sustainable design is something I can do here and now to create positive change.

see ya’ll at the barricades,

lynx

Happy Darwin Day

Posted on February 14, 2009

Howard Zinn on Anarchism and life after Nation-States

Posted on February 12, 2009

By ZIGA VODOVNIK
Via Counterpunch

Howard Zinn, 85, is a Professor Emeritus of political science at Boston University. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1922 to a poor immigrant family. He realized early in his youth that the promise of the “American Dream“, that will come true to all hard-working and diligent people, is just that – a promise and a dream. During World War II he joined US Air Force and served as a bombardier in the “European Theatre“. This proved to be a formative experience that only strengthened his convictions that there is no such thing as a just war. It also revealed, once again, the real face of the socio-economic order, where the suffering and sacrifice of the ordinary people is always used only to higher the profits of the privileged few.

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