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About Me

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." -- Walt Whitman
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein

My Interests

Wisdom. Peace. Good beats. Good health in mind, body and soul.
Being a righteous bad-ass.

I'd like to meet:

Music:

* System of a Down
* Jurassic 5
* Rage against the Machine
* Fela Anikulapo Kuti
* Common
* A Tribe Called Quest
* HÃ¼snÃ¼ Senlendirici
* DJ Krush
* Badly Drawn Boy
* Ozomatli
* Massive Attack
* Dave Brubeck
* Spearhead
* (early) Chicago
* Mozart
* Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
* the Vines
* Dilated Peoples
* One Day as a Lion
* King Crimson
* Built to Spill
* Pennywise
* Antonio Carlos Jobim
* Spearhead
* the Fugs
* Miles Davis
* Bob Dylan
* Dead Kennedys
* The Dining Rooms
* Tom Waits
* Steely Dan
* Gang of Four
* Antonio Vivaldi
* the artist formerly not known as Prince

Television:

no thanks

Books:

* Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
* The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti by Howard Fast
* Illusions by Richard Bach
* Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
* Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
* Bridging the Class Divide by Linda Stout
* No Boundary by Ken Wilber
* Safe Word by Molly Weatherfield
* Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
* Power/Knowledge by Michel Foucault
* In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore
* Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
* Seeking the Heart of Wisdom by Joseph Goldstein
* The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
* People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
* The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure
* Empire by Michael Hardt/Toni Negri
* Multitude by Michael Hardt/Toni Negri
* Gomorra by Roberto Saviano
* The Dhammapada by the Buddha

Heroes:

My Blog

the clue-by-four in beta: Free-for-all Fridays

Wherein anything goes.
Posted by Paul on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:25:00 PST

the clue-by-four in beta: Tech Thursdays

Wherein I rattle off tech jargon like a geek.
Posted by Paul on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:26:00 PST

the clue-by-four in beta: WTF Wednesdays

Wherein weird shit is explored.
Posted by Paul on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:26:00 PST

the clue-by-four in beta: Cluesday communiques

Wherein I try to explain things.
Posted by Paul on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:27:00 PST

the clue-by-four in beta: Mens Monday

Wherein a guy writes about guy stuff for other guys and also girls that know guys.Trip on over there if you can. It's still pretty raw, but I'd like to see if anything doesn't work out of the box: com...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:29:00 PST

Day 31; 50,022 words

Tonight I was delivered of a rough draft of a novel of speculative fiction, weighing in at 78 pages of single-spaced 12-point Helvetica. After 31 days of labor, I now have this sort of helpless squirm...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:31:00 PST

Please check out my REAL blog

I'm tired of cross posting :-P sorrycrazy like whoa
Posted by Paul on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:56:00 PST

Day 16: Half the way there! (25,880 words)

(Y'all wanna keep following along, come on over to crazy like whoa - I just burned out on double-posting)...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:58:00 PST

Day 15: 22,665 words - Ramadan and Elul, St. Anthony and Gustav

In the Mideastern cultures that birthed the major Western religions, the calendar followed the Moon rather than the Sun. In Judaism, it is the first day of Elul - as I was mentioning yesterday, the Ka...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:59:00 PST

Day 14: new moon in Virgo, 21,534 words

Didn't make up all the lost ground I wanted to, but I took a bite. I also went for an awesome ride, got (mostly) unpacked and my kitchen set up, and recovered from the tragic loss of my coffee grinder...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:01:00 PST