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Andrew

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. - Kurt Vonneg

About Me

Now in business at
drew3ooo dot net


Softkey Left softkey Right

Co-runs small, though bi-coastal, design/media consulting concern.


Works out of pubs, coffee shops and libraries that have WiFi access.

Pronounces it "Wi-Fi" to rhyme with Hi-Fi (Don Cheadle: "See this system here? This is Hi-Fi... high fidelity.") instead of the popular "wiffy" which makes no damned sense.

Reads much.

Writes occasionally.

Does some documentary photography now and again.

Enjoys beer, coffee, comics.

Is all activisty and overly involved.


I'm now working at a language school and raising money to head to Rafah, in Gaza to work with the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project. Send me a message if you're interested in pitching in and I'll give you the full skinny on how.

Or, just support my pal Maysoon's Kids . You'll feel all warm and fuzzy about it and you'll be doing something neat.

Or help out this this refugee camp in Uganda , run by Calvin and Suzanne, two incredible people I got to meet in Olympia last year through ITTP .

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear - one, of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men; Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were - for the moment - unpopular.— Edward R. Murrow

"The first thing we see as we travel around the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind." — Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques

"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." — Shirley Chisholm, presidential candidate in 1972 and the first African-American woman to win a seat in the United States Congress

"It's more difficult to get publications to focus on issues that are more critical. It's never been easy, and I think in the last few years it's gotten more difficult as society becomes more obseesed with entertainment, celebrity and fashion. Advertisers are tired of having their products displayed next to images of human tragedy; they feel that it somehow detracts from the saleability of their products." — James Nachtwey, photojournalist

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." — Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

"Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man." — Aung San Suu Kyi

"Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects - this is called struggle." — Leila Khaled

"But who's afraid of war? That's to say, who's afraid of the bombs and the machine-guns? 'You are', you say. Yes, I am, and so's anybody who's ever seen them. But it isn't the war that matters, it's the after-war. The world we're going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan-world. The coloured shirts, the barbed wire, the rubber truncheons. The secret cells where the electric light burns night and day, and the detectives watching you while you sleep. And the processions and the posters with enormous faces, and the crowds of a million people all cheering for the Leader till they deafen themselves into thinking that they really worship him, and all the time, underneath, they hate him so that they want to puke. It's all going to happen." — George Orwell

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My Interests

+ Writing + Design + Obscure camera formats and documentory photojournalism + SelfGoogling + The interweb + The truth + The good fight + Zen + Reading + Comics + Oly! + Rafah! + My peeps + Coffee + Brew + Pat 'n Aaron

I'd like to meet:

I don't know, some funny people, intelligent people, Bush's "animal-human hybrid" people, misfits, malcontents, people in tents, outlaws, in-laws, scofflaws, writers, freedom fighters, inventors mad scientists, Buddhists, atheists, botanists, linguists, artists. People who make stuff, break stuff, stuff stuff, You know, folks. I want to meet some folks.

Maybe I want to meet you. You're here anyway, so who are you? What's your deal exactly? Hmmm, Then, again, maybe I don't. You look kind of shifty.

That's okay. I'll add "shifty" to the list. Go ahead, drop me a line.

Music:

As of Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006, there are 9,790 files in my iTunes collection, totaling 27 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes and 28 seconds of music.

Into: The Pixies; Badly Drawn Boy; Liz Phair; The Philistines; White Stripes; The Kills; Me First and the Gimme Gimmes; The Ponys; Common...And much, much more.

Movies:

Five at random: Shuan of the Dead; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; The Big Lebowski; Paradise Now; His Girl Friday

Television:

Honestly I've not been able to watch as much as I would hope to as of late. I miss TV sometimes. Still tops: Buffy the Vampire Slayer; That 70s Show; The Daily Show; Democracy Now.

Books:

5 novels: Mother Night; Shantaram; The God of Small Things; The Book of Dave; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

5 in Nonfiction: The Gun and the Olive Branch, Rising up and Rising Down; Assasination Vacation; A People's History of the United States; We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed Along With Our Families.
5 Authors in general: Will Self; Zadie Smith; V.S. Naipaul; Cory Doctorow; Walter Mosley.


5 graphic novels: Safe Area Garazde; Persepolis 1 & 2, Box Office Poison; Louis Riel; Jimmy Corigan.

Heroes:

Jamal al-Durrah and his son Mohammed

My Blog

Dear Mr. Murdoch, I’ve been seeing another social networking website for some time now...

Been a long time since I posted here. But it's time for me to give notice to Mr. Murdoch. I'm doing my social networking at Facebook these days and my blogging at my own site, drew3000.net. I'm going ...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:42:00 PST

and now we are married

Let's start with the incident on Sunday, September 16. --> --> -->more--> GhazaliyatHafez Ghazal 01 Section 46Amidst flowers, wine in hand, my lover I embraceKing of the world is my slave on such a da...
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:18:00 PST

Baird Watching

Baird Baird.... Baird.I don't know, Rep. Brian Baird just has one of those names that 's kind of fun to use and make puns out of and stuff. The Baird Truth. Baird Naked Ladies. Baird rug.Baird Watch i...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:52:00 PST

this just in: Khadija ... updated

So this is who we're currently caling "Khadija" or more often for cutesy sake "Little Khadija." She some odd weeks going and favorite passtimes currently include batting her arms when the utrasound sc...
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:52:00 PST

44 gibbon Road

Camera phone snaps:..">This is the new place.This is Maryam wondering if I'm goign to post this photo of her in the old place while she's doing a dye job and packing.This is a a flower girl, dead from...
Posted by Andrew on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:19:00 PST

online move

I've managed to move into my new site before we've moved into our new flat, likely for the sheer reason that no havey lfiting is involved and it creates a nice diversion from work for the moment.It's ...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:39:00 PST

Travel update and so forth

Maryam will be arriving Sept. 7 and leaving sometime in the middle or later part of September, plane tickets willing.Moving week has begun so we're tearing he place apart and running stuff to the char...
Posted by Andrew on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:57:00 PST

Flight plans

Ok, after updating the information at my Orbitz account, my bank account, getting the block taken off of my card, changing my phone information with the bank, alerting homeland Security, and crossing ...
Posted by Andrew on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:09:00 PST

Rumor verification

Greetings all. It's been a bit of a to-do over the last few months. New country, new job, relationship things, shelter woes. I've been on the computer for scads of hours a day but not had the time to ...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:13:00 PST

The currents

This post brought to you by Coffee, bacon and the letter µReading: Birthday letters by Ted HughesThe best poetry does come out of regret.Reading also: The Wisdom of CrowdsSociological theory as page-t...
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:26:00 PST