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vdiddle

---stay together--- learn the flowers---go light

My Interests

Music:

lastfm

Movies:

Me and You and Everyone We Know, Volver, the Saddest Music in the World, Wild Style, Hyenas, The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, Touki Bouki, Ghost Dog, Hedwig, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, the Gleaners and I, Control Room, and other documentaries

Books:

The Power of Now, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Pablo Neruda, Siddhartha, Invisible Man, The Fire Next Time, Rule of the Bone

Heroes:

ella baker james baldwin sun ra

My Blog

there was a girl who talked to geese

there is a posse of canada geese that hangs out right next to work munching away on tall grass and bobbing their heads and waddling about. i stop and say "hello" on my way in to work. there is a cocor...
Posted by vdiddle on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:08:00 PST

chilled

it's cool and crisp out again, which is so nice but a really abrupt transition from the 90-100 degree temperatures. i just ran 4 miles in 35 minutes, which is a really good time for me, especially sin...
Posted by vdiddle on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:08:00 PST

run and brunch

beautiful beautiful day, clear blue sky, sunny, crisp fall air8 miles with 2 MAJOR hills, the 2nd i wasn't sure i'd summit, i was running out of breath and felt my chest tightening, but mary told me t...
Posted by vdiddle on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:18:00 PST

um, yeah

    ha ha heeeeeeheeee ha!wow a day of high awareness and being in the moment under some of the most pleasant and fabulously transcendent circumstances. i am going to sleep very ve...
Posted by vdiddle on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:12:00 PST

gardasil

http://uhururadio.com/genitunes/hs.rssbad ass siteyou have to go in about 6-7 minutes through some music to hear the showi recommend the broadcast about the "cervical cancer" vaccine...
Posted by vdiddle on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:16:00 PST

why i love james baldwin

"White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deludedabout themselves and the world they liv...
Posted by vdiddle on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:42:00 PST

website

i think i finished ithttp://www.unc.edu/~vcfloyd/dcl/afam.htmlsuggestions?
Posted by vdiddle on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:56:00 PST

Cest au Manhattan fast food Dakar

have the catchy Amadou and Mariam song "Senegal Fast Food" in my head---their music is really good.ran 4.5 miles. it's getting cooler and cooler in the mornings, making running less tiring and drainin...
Posted by vdiddle on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:14:00 PST

pet chicken

went to dinner at k's house--they're thinking about getting chicken so we ate dinner with this guy who has chickens to get tips on the space and infrastructure it will require. it seems pretty easy to...
Posted by vdiddle on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:42:00 PST

recapitulate

ran the 10k course this morning with k. felt really good about it and really endorphin good afterwards and the weather was awesome. new running shoes, too = much nicer support.i was excited to see som...
Posted by vdiddle on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:42:00 PST