Sustain-ability: Real Things

Sustain-ability

Wait, didn’t I say I was unplugging?Why yes, yes I did. However, it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to stop writing. If I don’t blog or journal, my brain starts doing this endless churning. Did you even read the advice that you should keep a pen...

Sustain-ability: Too Much Shit

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I’ve written previously about the death of the middle class. One of my points was that it’s hard to find mid-level quality items — everything is either really expensive or it’s shit… and there’s no shortage of the latter.Since we...

Sustain-ability: Looking Down at your Own Ground

Sustain-ability

Previous | Master | Next I grew up in the US Desert Southwest. That means that I’m used to huge skies and really wide open desert vistas. Dramatic mountains and rock formations and few trees to block the view. As the song goes, I can see for miles and miles....

Sustain-ability: Redundancy Case Study

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By the way, this is officially my 100th post!Our house came with a new, but very cheap, electric coil stove. After six year of heavy use (including a great deal of canning, which involves large heavy pots full of water and glass jars filled with stuff) it began to...

Whether the Weather

Divination, Sustain-ability

I’ve never understood that people think astrology is a way of telling the future. It’s not. Astrology doesn’t tell you what’s going to happen. It doesn’t even tell you what will happen if you do x, y, or z. No, astrology tells you when...

Sustain-ability: The Economy Sucks, Suck Harder

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Back in 2010, I picked up a book from the library called: Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. The title has been changed (to be more buzz-word worthy I suppose) but I prefer the original. This is a book that would naturally appeal to...