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Jirque de Soleil

Behold the power of butter.

About Me

Cook by trade, specializing in vegan and vegetarian cuisine from a variety of ethinicities. Currently, the royal we are employed at a lovely intentional community called Breitenbush.In my spare time I read, play with fire, and sing and dance and make a general fool out of myself.

My Interests

Fire dancing, crystals and mineral specimens, rare and exotic whatever, yoga, climbing, parkour, hiking, cooking, gardening, health and well being, fellow travelers, piercings and tattoos, Scrabble, crosswords, building stuff, energy conservation, and living simply.

I'd like to meet:

.. ..

Music:

Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, The Meters, Del, The Cramps, Violent Femmes, Hiero, J5, Bjork, Aesop Rock, Bach, Miles Davis, Belle and Sebastian, Inti Illimani, Mad Lib, Tool, Norah Jones, PJ Harvey, Bonney Prince Billy, the Sun Gods, Blitzen Trapper, famous Bobs Dylan and Marley, infamous Robert Meade of Eugene Oregon, Lyrics Born, Fela Kuti, Shel Silverstein, Antibalas, the list could keep going so feel free to insert whatever at this point

Movies:

I Heart Huckabees, Where the Buffalo Roam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Roots, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Kids, Fight Club, Gummo, Dogtown, Pulp Fiction, yeah can't remember too many movies at the moment

Television:

yeah right

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk, Roald Dahl, George R. R. Martin, Richard Brautigan, Hunter Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Shel Silverstein, Herman Melville, Thom Hartmann, anybody with salt.The Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary is my Bible. Praise the Lord.

Heroes:

Anybody with the courage of his convictions and the ability to back down from inevitable jackassedness. Plus Harvey Dickson.

My Blog

hot damnation.

The mind reels at the forces around us. To go through life and experience all its wonders while retaining a grounded perspective: no small task.SO just this past afternoon, in the company of Storm and...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:23:00 PST

I bring the ruckus (straight from the sideline)

Achieved: first sunburn of the year. Bitchin'.The sun is out and it's like 75 degrees here and I am STOKED. Got myself five 4' x 15' garden plots and they're all double-dug save one, which is on tomor...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:50:00 PST

Get Those Missiles Ready to Destroy the Universe!

The sound of rapid gunfire sets the tone for this arbitrary, Julian "new" year holiday. All the kids gotta try out their new shootin'-irons they done got fer Chrismuss. There's an apron-shaped hole in...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:50:00 PST

Headphones of Haroldini pt.1: A Heroic Dose

My feet are insane! I think they grew a size in the last week.It's a freakin winter wonderland out here, with snow and everything. Two feet dumped down in like a day, and then it just gave up. The sun...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:15:00 PST

Headphones of Haroldini: Prologue

It's hella windy. The unlatched door and creaky screens weren't quite spooky enough, so I turned out the lights. Everyone's talking about big changes for us all coming in with this wind. I guess we'll...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:19:00 PST

expletives deleted at publisher's request

Yet another epic week. I am in the slow and laborious process of moving into a new house (named The Edge of Delight) and the constant downpour is not speeding things along, except that I walk faster. ...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:34:00 PST

Good lord.

What a week. Halloween in Eugene was a riot; my good friend Dani threw a cumstomarily excellent party. His hostmanship knows no bounds. There weren't quite as many BSG costumes as I had been led to be...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:52:00 PST

I just heard the magic word!!!

YEAH! Pan fried chicken baby. Pregnant mama trying to hurl and we're all sitting around discussing the finer points of Boggle. Copper ale batter with mayshked p'taters and serious greens. Talkin bout ...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:10:00 PST

Recent headlines

Propane Leak Lasts Several Hours; Kitchen Does Not ExplodeNaked Firedancing Proven Safer While Soaking WetStanley Wu and Sean Gamble Host Housewarming/Homebrew Unveiling; Wu Discusses Dub Reggae While...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:55:00 PST

i'm the one man army, it's on

So here goes. I am trying to solidify some travel plans for the next few months, so if any of you are gona be traveling, let me know so we can synchronize. I want our journeys to be as painless and fr...
Posted by Jirque de Soleil on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:47:00 PST