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Cory

Happiness doesn't have to be a paycheck away...

About Me

canned oxygen.

bleeding heart.

blue w/ white.

Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if i listen carefully, i can hear her breathing. --Arundhati Roy

My Interests

breaking glass, peasant tolstoyans, politics, activism, natacha rambova, soviet history, russian, literature, music, quilting, gardening, equality, letters, riding public transportation, knitting, humanity, cooking, veganism, yellow roses, christian anarchy, walking, blue ink...I want to learn a trade.

I'd like to meet:

My Celebrity Crush: Mr. Stephen Colbert

A boy who plays the banjo.

Music:

But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
--Lenin

Movies:

goodbye, lenin!, in america, buffalo 66, fivel goes west, harold and maude, big fish, to kill a mockingbird, the secret lives of dentists, harvey

Television:

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
--Groucho Marx

Books:

2007:
1.A Hand Full of Dust; Evelyn Waugh
2.The Ecstasy of Rita Joe; George Ryga
3.The Exception to the Rulers; Amy Goodman
4.Siddhartha; Hermann Hesse
5.Food Not Bombs; CT Butler & Keith McHenry
6.The Book of Mormon
7.Cry, The Beloved Country; Alan Paton
8.Natasha and Other Stories; David Bezmozgis
9.Man's Search for Meaning; Viktor E. Frankl
10.A Lost Lady; Willa Cather
11.The Painted Bird; Jerzy Kosinski
12.Life In An Austro-Hungarian Military Prison: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story; Peter Brock
13.Whiteway Colony: The Social History of a Tolstoyan Community; Joy Thacker
14.Tolstoy: Principles For a New World Order; David Redfearn

Heroes:

My Mom
The Boy Who Could Fly
Jesus Christ
Joseph Smith
Leo Tolstoy
Emma Goldman
Peter Kropotkin
Amy Goodman
And probably you...

My Blog

Wilde

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. --Oscar Wilde
Posted by Cory on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:03:00 PST

Ce sont les peuples memes...

It is the peoples themselves who allow themselves to be, or rather have themselves, gobbled up; for, in ceasing to serve, they would be rid of it all. It is the people who enslave themselves, who cut...
Posted by Cory on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:02:00 PST

Protests Follow Bush in Guatemala

Protests continue to follow President Bush as he finishes out his Latin America tour. In Guatemala Monday, Bush heard more criticism on US treatment of undocumented immigrants. For the first time the ...
Posted by Cory on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:44:00 PST

Whiteway Colony

Francis Sedlak said that when one thinks of heaven on earth disappointment usually follows. He writes, People usually connect the word 'Colony' with the most fantastic pictures of the socialistic fut...
Posted by Cory on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:55:00 PST

Equal Footing

How do we set people on equal footing? asks the visitor. There is no question of setting them on equal footing. Everybody must set himself there. And this can be done only by feeling in oneself...Only...
Posted by Cory on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:48:00 PST

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

NY-NJ Workers Solidarity Alliance statement on International Women's Day:On March 8, 1908, thousands of women left their jobs in the sweatshops of New York City's Lower east Side and took to the stree...
Posted by Cory on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:28:00 PST

New Found Whit...

When I Heard The Learn'd AstronomerWhen I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were aranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and...
Posted by Cory on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:03:00 PST

ahem...

Anti War Rally February 04, 2007 John Ditzler Executive Editor Utah anti-war rally moderated by UVSC alumni Hundreds gathered at the Salt Lake City library Saturday, Jan. 27 to publicly oppose Presid...
Posted by Cory on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:46:00 PST

Bush Seeks $80 Billion in Medicare & Medicaid Program

President Bush's budget also calls for about eighty billion dollars in cuts from Medicare and Medicaid programs over the next five years. Other programs facing budget cuts include Head Start, the Low-...
Posted by Cory on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:05:00 PST

Einstein's Mind

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civili...
Posted by Cory on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:57:00 PST