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About Me

I'd chop my glass in half if it were half full.

http://www.insubordinate-zine.com

Issues up to #5 online now.

My Interests

being awake, sustainability, new ways of looking at old things.

I'd like to meet:

like minded folks. people looking for answers who aren't satisfied by the ones that are provided.

fuck-ups. weirdos. recovered fuck-ups who still aren't ambitious.

Music:

stuff that's authentically urgent or desperate, stuff that gives hope, fun shit.

Heroes:

influences include -- daniel quinn, noam chomsky, ian mackaye, Atticus Finch, hope, friends, 30 years of submersion.

My Blog

To Kill A Mockingbird

I've been re-reading To Kill A Mockingbird.  It's really such a good book, and I never knew it even though I read it in high school.  It was such a chore then, but now it's a breath of fresh...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Wed, 28 May 2008 09:49:00 PST

Drawings - Red Bomb

Step one, followed by step two....more later....
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Sun, 18 May 2008 07:57:00 PST

Issue 7 - Directional Thinking

This article is building on the two "Ideas Are Methods" essays.  The thoughts outlined in those provide an idea of what I'm calling Directional Thinking.  It's not meant to be all encompassi...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:15:00 PST

Issue 6 - Ideas Are Methods, pt. 2

To continue on something from part one......When you use ideas to interpret events you ignore some facts and emphasize others.  The idea is used to wedge events into a particular abstract concept...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:34:00 PST

Issue 6 - Ideas Are Methods

Ideas can be used to sum up the most essential parts of a thing.  They are methods.  Each idea is an abstracted way of coming at something from a certain angle.  It provides a way to in...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:11:00 PST

Issue 6 - What Makes You Feel Good

what makes you feel good.  lots of different stuff.  when you’re down some things can almost always bring you back up.  back on top, feeling good again.  it’s a given t...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:58:00 PST

Issue 3 - School Daze

sometimes lately the thoughts of grade school have been creeping back on me.  some of it is really hard to remember, but other spots just force themselves on me when i’m not expecting it.&n...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:16:00 PST

Issue 2 - North of Home

i’m in wisconsin this weekend, left milwaukee this morning, not sure where to go or if i would start heading home.  i took the freeway west and started seeing signs for wisconsin dells...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:19:00 PST

Issue 3 - If I were a Carpenter

something i wrote back in 2005, but appeared in issue 3....... i've been sitting here listening to johnny cash. his songs are soothing. ring of fire makes me think, for a few seconds, that something's...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:26:00 PST

Issue 4 - Internalized Consumerism

it's funny looking over academic studies of consumerism. today i read parts of a book about changes since the end of WWII. most of what i read was concerned with the development of market segmentation...
Posted by insubordinate magazine on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:34:00 PST