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Angeles National Forest
Upper Zuma Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains
early morning musings, pondering the memorial beacon at ground zero
Chicago's millenium park silver torus, totally sweet
towards the end of my chicago bike tour, at the Hancock Tower downtown.
horse. it looks wooden but's actually METAL
yes
this really is me. I've got the mad science hookup.
Halloween in the hills

Here's more of my older travel blogs and misc. photos!!

Solo flight on my birthday, 2005:
Storybookland, CA
I believe these are oil wells, literally hundreds of square miles of this shit.
Geology is sweet.
San Andreas Fault.
Ahh, the familiar brown haze, home sweet home.
More aerial Photography by yours truly. More new stuff soon.

Swan dreams... Donegal, Ireland
For only half your life
You lived
And this was while
You were sleeping
(photo and poem by JDH)
Strait Chillin. Johnstone Strait, British Columbia.
The magic sailboat. Epic.
Killer whales! There were dozens of them.
Takin' it to the streets... Santa Monica Critical Mass !!! First Friday of every month.
Cowschwitz, central CA. What made me go veggie 8 years ago.
Port Moody, BC
Sleepless in Seattle, partying at 5am- ExPr tour summer 2006
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Atop Jazz on the Park Hostel NYC

My Interests

astronomy, ecology/biology, riding bikes, hiking/camping, wandering, photographing forests and mountains, musicality

Do you eat like an SUV?

Biking in Joshua Tree NP. Orion basks in the light pollution of our great city

Pinus longaeva- Bristlecone Pine Forest, White Mountains, CA

last days at 2420 Butler Ave. Ain't that a puss!!

my arch-nemesis

I'd like to meet:

vegans, animal-socio-politico-eco-activists, creators, adventurers, dreamers, atheists, naturalists, Troll 2 enthusiasts, cyclists, any and all of the above.

Oh yeah, check out some of the music I make.

Exhausted Prayer

Music:

a few random picks: The Advantage, Kneebody, Nick Drake, Joe Farrell, Portishead, Elliott Smith, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Don Caballero, Suffocation, Cryptopsy, John McLaughlin, Emperor, Radiohead, Astor Piazolla, Opeth, Soundgarden, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Lee Morgan, Hum, Type O Negative, Kool Keith, Intronaut, Disgorge, Sam Rivers, Chris Barnes-era Cannibal Corpse ("Free to Edible Autopsy!!!"), At the Gates, Joe Henderson, Hacksaw to the Throat, Ludicra, Antonio Vivaldi, Camel, NIN, At the Drive-in, McCoy Tyner, Rasputina, Built to Spill, Company Flow, Disgorge, Pink Floyd, Dissection, Hella, The Bad Dudes, Neurosis, King Crimson, Ustad Allah Rakha, Necrophagist, Freddie Hubbard, EPMD, Charles Mingus, The Smiths, Enslaved, Bobby Hutcherson, Exhausted Prayer

Movies:

troll 2 is my favorite movie, the wicker man, swingers, the tin drum, little otik, gore-met zombie chef from hell, being john malkovich, south park, i

Television:

I don't own nor watch a television. But if I did I would watch Aquateen Hungerforce, Curb your Enthusiasm, the Simpsons, and NASA TV. Discovery and History Channel are a given, come on.

Books:

brave new world, the great watchmaker, a brief history of time, martian chronicles, sherlock holmes, jrr tolkien, noam chomsky, heike monogatari, prajnaparamita.

Heroes:

Joshua Waits , Salvador Dali , Bernard Herrmann, James Watson & Francis Crick, the Beatles, and Richard Dawkins for being as outspoken as he is.

My Blog

Inside Obamas Christian Crusade

Doesn't look too good. Just heard yesterday Obama wants to expand funding and continue Bush's support for "faith-based" programs, such as shelters and soup kitchens. I guess I shouldn't co...
Posted by swanscience on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:29:00 PST

The Oceans Carbon Balance

For those of you who haven't gotten to read anything technical on global warming and carbon dynamics, this article may be a little dense but it explains the concepts pretty well. The ocean is th...
Posted by swanscience on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:02:00 PST

Congress Is Funding Major Escalation in Secret Operations Against Iran

Sy Hersh: Congress Is Funding Major Escalation in Secret Operations Against Iran By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!Posted on July 1, 2008, Printed on July 1, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/89963/ ...
Posted by swanscience on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:49:00 PST

Exposed pork workers developed nerve disorder

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN1636729020080416Si ckened pork workers have new nerve disorder Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:22pm EDT By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eighteen pork...
Posted by swanscience on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:37:00 PST

The great migration crisis

http://www. independent. co. uk/environment/nature/the-great-migration-crisis-812640. htmlThe great migration crisisBy Michael McCarthy, Environment EditorMonday, 21 April 2008Many of the birds that m...
Posted by swanscience on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:33:00 PST

Howard Zinn: the New Deal, presidential candidates responsibilities

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/80504/Are Hillary and Obama Afraid of Talking About the New Deal? By Howard Zinn, The Nation. Posted March 31, 2008. In today’s climate of...
Posted by swanscience on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:16:00 PST

Upright walking began 6 million years ago...

Web address: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/ &nb sp; 080320183657.htm Upright Walking Began 6 Million Years Ago, Thigh Bone Com...
Posted by swanscience on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:57:00 PST

There was a Lion who lived in London...

These two guys reared this lion from a baby in England but the authorities would not allow them to keep it once it reached maturity so they were forced to give it up. They took it back to Africa...
Posted by swanscience on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:33:00 PST

Drugs and Hormones in our Drinking Water... Yay!

There are tons of lovely things in the drinking water already (hence the great taste), now we can enjoy the effects of prescription drugs and other chemicals. I learned at a conference last week...
Posted by swanscience on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:02:00 PST

EXCELLENT article on cloned meat. share with everyone!!!

A very frightening report on how little scientific data there is on the safety of cloned animals for food, and they are already in our food supply thanks to a voluntary ban (which will soon be lifted)...
Posted by swanscience on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:24:00 PST