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About Me

On paper, I'm responsible. What's unstable is the day to day - struggle to wake up, go teach in a box, then what? After the time of day or week that's scheduled, one has to make choices. Where do you go in the winter? Needs to be a warm place to sit down that doesn't cost money, doesn't piss off your landlord, doesn't require you to abase yourself at the temple of someone else's schedule?

My Interests

I'm interested in learning more about the choices we don't make. When was the last time you said, 'No' to something that to which it was assumed you would say 'yes'? I'm recently put in mind of the

I'd like to meet:

I like new friends, mostly people whose lives are busy and difficult, but who are working to have friends and community anyway.

Music:

Nada Surf, The Strokes, Kait0, EBTG, Elliot Smith, They Might Be Giants, Pizzicato Five, Treepeople,

Movies:

Happy Times --- go rent it!The Professional --- try to see it on a box with good color, and you'll see another entire dimension of cinematography.

Television:

Haven't watched it in so long, I've forgotten what's on it.

Books:

Memoirs of a Geisha, Kitchen and N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto, Dune 1-4... any suggestions? Now that I'm three weeks out from having any video (no more movies now, too!), I'm open to suggestions.

My Blog

Look at this ossum fuck you letter from Trey!

This is posted in Trey's Myspace... IT'S TOTALLY AWESOME! Especially the lines about the STDs...QUOTE: "I am officially kicked out of Watershed. after all the help I have input into this establishment...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:10:00 PST

Hrm... I wonder what the vfkak is?

<TABLE cellPadding=20 align=center><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle><FONT size=5><B>The Carnal Lover</B></FONT><BR>31% partner focus, 76% aggressivenes...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:18:00 PST

Prologue: The founding of the Dead Letter System

Prologue: The founding of the Dead Letter SystemOr would that be 'proto-logue'?This is the part of the story that gets interesting later, and not so wonderful to look at at the time.See, I really have...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:37:00 PST

The Metavirus - polished for 6 months

6 months ago i had a revelation. Now, I have spent six months trying to find the 'starting point' for that revelation. Let's start with the concept 'starting point'. If there were a circle, and ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Activating the Metavirus

The metavirus is a growing language of synthesis - HOW THINGS FIT TOGETHER. Looking at how things fit together - what they are, rather than what they are not, gives us hacks into people, tribes, ci...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Listen UP! Dead Letter Movie Night Tuesday 8/3

Starting about 6pm on Tuesday, 8/3 Down at Diem's house... 400 Yale N. The Dead Letter Truck will present our own incredibly odd training videos, as well as a couple of our favorite movies. W...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST