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About Me

I like bikes and fiddles and gardens and accordions and any instrument made out of a cigar box and I like books and dancing too. Sometimes when I'm at the Denver Public Library and I find a cool rare out of print book I get excited and paranoid and think everyone in the library and greater metro area is out to get my book. Seriously. I think what if someoen just put this book on hold and then never returns it? I may never get to see it again. damn internet.I do have a blog

My Interests

knitting, bikes, old-time fiddle tunes, radical queer politics, 4 track recording, star trek, books, polka, nanowrimo, the command line

I'd like to meet:

Folk Musicians, Potters, Painters, Writers, Dancers, Radicals, Film makers. Eccentric people, but not too eccentric. And knitters too.

Music:

Joanna Newsome, Gillian Welch, Ian Cooke, Shicky Gnarowitz, the Ukrainians, Mississippi John Hurt, Munly and the Lew Lewis Harlots, Belle n Sebastien, the Can Kickers, Goose Island Ramblers, the Handsome Family, Los Lobos, Tom Waits, Husker Du, the Pogues

Movies:

Anything with Gladiators or Maggie Smith. Also: Seven Samurai, Triplets of Belleville, the Magnificent Ambersons, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Manhattan, Waking Life, Annie Hall, Babe, My Own Private Idaho, Slacker, Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon, Breathless, Seventh Seal

Television:

Free Speech TV, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Firefly (yeah, yeah the last 3 spell G-E-E-K)

Books:

Lately I've read and liked: American Gods, End Game by Derrick Jensen, the Gay Militants, Knitting without Tears, Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile (really good), Blood on the Border, Watership Downmore

Heroes:

Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomsky

My Blog

honeybee on basil

I got a new camera in the mail last night. Its pretty awesome, I love its macro mode.Here's a habanero pepper:...
Posted by Bart on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:33:00 PST

mittens, anarcho sweater idea

ah yes, the mitten conundrum: once you finish one mitten you have to turn around and knit another....kind of a dull mitten, I just wanted to teach myself to knit with double pointed needles, (which is...
Posted by Bart on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:08:00 PST

week 3 CSA veggies

just picked up this week's veggies. I'm so happy I joined the CSA! But with that now there is responsibility and I have no idea how we are going to cook this many veggies in a week... well...
Posted by Bart on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:49:00 PST

The Bunny in the Garden

Yes, this is the bunny who sun bathes next to my garden. I keep trying to convince myself that he only eats the weeds on the edge of the garden. This is the only thing I've ever seen him e...
Posted by Bart on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:54:00 PST

more gardening, woodworking, mint

I finally thinned the broccoli yesterday, which turned out to be arugula, thank god. I kept pouting where's the arugula, where's the rocket? I don't need all of this damn broccoli. So as I...
Posted by Bart on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:11:00 PST

The Spinach Lady has Arrived

The spinach is coming! I just went into our backyard and discovered that the spinach I planted a month ago in a moment of despair and impatience has started coming up. What a happy surpris...
Posted by Bart on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:02:00 PST

The Eco-Dome and the Left's Fear of the Country

I really hate when I have these conversations with urban lefties and they always give me the "if you build that eco-dome in the country, they're gonna burn it down and run you out of the county." ...
Posted by Bart on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:25:00 PST

some days I make charts like this:

land requirements for growing food on the FarmBread 4 lbs wheat harvested per 100 sq feet (for novice gardener) 1 lb = 1 loaf bread 100lbs = 100 loaves bread year/person --------- 2500 sq f...
Posted by Bart on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:48:00 PST

bike day!

I rode my bike in to work today. After a month off from riding it was pretty fucking exhilarating. Kyle and I belted out country songs ("Dont you cry mama") biking through Boulder whilst avoiding huge...
Posted by Bart on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:15:00 PST

Way too late for this best of 2006

Best of 2006Books: Clandestinos, the journal of a pirate exile which was as much an adventure story as an unofficial chronicle of modern global resistance movements. I read this book straight throu...
Posted by Bart on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:53:00 PST