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About Me

Poor transplant from the Druid City now living in the cold, frozen north. Worked with Habitat for Humanity in the Philippines(Dumaguete, Gen San, and Midsayap), the Armenian SSR(Yerevan and Spitak), Bolivia(Cochabamba and Chimore) and Paraguay and led Global Village Work Teams to Brazil,Bolivia,Ghana,Mexico,Peru, and the Philippines. Also worked with Little Children of the World, a small non-profit working with street children in the Philippines and Haiti.

My Interests

New Urbanism and the transformation of our cities,Urban Aquaculture, 2012 and the transformations coming to a city near you,Celtic and Native American Spirituality, particularly as they relate to the environment.Progressive Rock,Community Development and International Aid. Conservation.Taking Amateur Radio and shortwave radio back from the cranks who now rule the airwaves.

I'd like to meet:

A long cool woman in a black dress...nah just joshing. Anyone interested in creating a better world. Oh yeah,I'd like to meet snooty old Paul Theroux in the club car of the Southern Crescent. I regret not driving dowm to Covington to meet Walker Percy.I'd like to discuss Islam with Richard Thompson.

Music:

I truly dig Balinese Gamalan orchestras,Tuvan Throat Singing,Lisbon Chaos Orchestra,Magma,Yes,King Crimson,Fairport Convention,Steeleye Span,Richard Thompson,Flash,Badger,Allman Brothers,Man,Deke Leonard,Help Yourself,Jetho Tull,Joanna Newsom,The Who,Todd Rundgren,almost anything that plays on 6 Music's Freak Zone,George Harrison,John Trudell,Bruce Cockburn,Neil Young

Movies:

Local Hero,Everything is Illuminated,Oh Brother Where Art Thou,Millions,My Favorite Year, Moonstruck(ok, I become like Billy Pilgrim when I see this movie,I'm not really a Cher fan),The Plow That Broke The Plains,anything by Robert Flaherty,Transporter,Kino Pravda,Stop Making Sense,Something Wild,The Man Who Would Be King,Year of Living Dangerously

Television:

Tom Verlaine can sure play a mean geetar! Shoot man, I love Television.

Books:

Pablo Neruda,One Hundred Years of Solitude (maybe the best novel of the 20th Century) Midnight's Children,Baboon Metaphysics, Slaughterhouse 5,Anything by Wendell Berry,Kon Tiki, The Moviegoer,Love in the Ruins, Hunger,No Touch Monkey,The Weather Makers,The Winds of Change,The Book of Isaiah,Sex Lives of Cannibals,anything by Coleman Barks channeling Rumi.

Heroes:

Jimmy Carter, Aung San Suu Kyi,Thor Heyerdahl,Muhammad Yunis,Clarence Jordan,Captain James Cook,George Archibald,Millard Fuller,James Godwin,Ho Chi Mihn,George Harrison,John Trudell,Richard Thompson,Bruce Cockburn,Wangari Muta Maathai,Sir Francis Drake,Lapu Lapu

My Blog

You ever just get tired of all this?

I do.
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:17:00 PST

How old are you, Nasruddin?

HOW OLD ARE YOU, MULLA? SOMEONE ASKED, 'THREE YEARS OLDER THAN MY BROTHER.'HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? 'REASONING. LAST YEAR. I HEARD MY BROTHER TELL SOMEONE THAT I WAS TWO YEARS OLDER THAN HIM. A YEAR HAS ...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:46:00 PST

Kookaburra Prize in Poetry just announced

The Baboon Liberation Army is launching the Kookaburra Prize for the best poem written in the style of Charles Bukowski. The winner will receive a shiny one ounce silver kookaburra coin from Australia...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:03:00 PST

Nasruddin rescues the moon!

Nasruddin was looking at the image of the moon in a well. He thought it was a recompense to take out the moon from the well. Therefore, he threw a rope inside the well and swung it a few times. Incide...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:58:00 PST

This is a neat new quiz you can start using.

So I was looking at Sheri Joseph's myspace page this morning, can't even remember how I got there which must be a bad sign of too much time wanking on my part. She is the author of a great new book, S...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:43:00 PST

When the light won't help you find what is hidden

One day Mullah Nasruddin lost his ring down in the basement of his house, where it was very dark. There being no chance of his finding it in that darkness, he went out on the street and started lookin...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:16:00 PST

Nasruddin ponders the wonders of God

One hot day, Nasruddin was taking it easy in the shade of a walnut tree. After a time, he started eying speculatively, the huge pumpkins growing on vines and the small walnuts growing on a majestic tr...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:56:00 PST

Alabama Blues Project

Years ago, almost in another life, I sold turnip seed to Johnny Shines. I remember he would come in the feed store and cash his royalty checks from Vanguard records, They weren't much, enough to buy t...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:23:00 PST

Nazrudin and the marbles

Two children found a bag containing twelve marbles. They argued over how to divide the toys and finally went to see the Mulla. When asked to settle their disagreement, the Mulla asked whether th...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:40:00 PST

bumble bees and butterflies

This afternoon my younger daughter came running in to tell me that a bummble bee was outside on my older daughter's shoulder. Sure, I thought, not very likely. I went out, and yes, there was a large b...
Posted by Baboon Liberation Army on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:45:00 PST