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pudge hefflefinger

Honk if you've sold plasma...

About Me

Interested in the high stakes.Trying to live in the intersection between joy, candor, militancy, critique, tenderness, uncertainty, and commitment.I believe in bodies.

My Interests

Making music, food, houses, theory, art, and conversations. Walking down traintracks in the evening, biking around town at night, walking in the woods in the morning. Scheming, laughing, dancing, and all the ways that bodies come together. Finding new ways to fight capitalism, new ways to do permaculture, and new dance moves. Working it out.

I'd like to meet:

People who like to laugh, dance, go outside, and destroy capitalism. Sassy, argumentative, kind, occasionally humble people who don't care if I'm mildly behind the fashion curve. Folks who suspect that in order to have the kind of world we want, we have to make it, and we need new tools. People to organize with. People to go dating with. People to read books with. I have plenty of stunningly wonderful friends, actually, so I guess just fun smart people for the organizing, dating, and/or reading of books.

Music:

Music that I am dancing to with friends and/or exciting strangers. Music made for free by someone in the room. Music I'm making.

Movies:

Burn, Hollywood, burn!

Television:

Anything that turns queerness or ethnicity into a commodity and uses it to sell hip and savvy audiences to corporatate advertisers with hip and savvy brand identities. I love that shit. Like, y'know, Black Eye for the White Guy?

Books:

Quirky, smart, apocalyptic sci-fi. Babs Kingsolver. Books on ecology, whiteness and anti-racism, complexity, systems theory, evolution, theoretical biology, cybernetics, new science, and sustainability. In my weaker moments: terrible pulp sci-fi.

Heroes:

My friends. And Gregory Bateson.

My Blog

the awkwardness of political language

And this portrays a certain political awkwardness...
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:45:00 PST

liberating ecology

This is the promo sheet for the Liberation Ecology workshop that I give
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:42:00 PST

causality and broad-scale social change

Check it:Causing Change
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:39:00 PST

Switcheroo

I'm on livejournal now. I re-posted a slightly altered version of my anti-Borat rant there, on an anti-racist community page, and discussion ensues.Cut it out already...
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:31:00 PST

sascha baron-cohen can kiss my fucking ass

I'm sick of waiting for somebody else to say it first..."Borat" is a fucking minstrel show. All this self-congratulatory chuckling and guffawing about how SBC and his film crew tricked some working cl...
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:05:00 PST

hierarchy denser than air or water

Art from the caste ecology perspective:If we subtract all language, all meaning-making, temporarily but totally, from our view of human social activity, we are left with a richly patterned network of...
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:17:00 PST

technomystique

And here are the closing chapters of the epistolary nerdsaga begun last week:From: MichaelDate: Jul 3, 2006 7:56 PM Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: pattern arrhythmiaHere's an evolutionary predict...
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:35:00 PST

Hassan i Sabbah redux

Everything is constrained.Nothing is specified.
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:05:00 PST

this time

Why should I close my eyes tonight?I could stay out til the sun swells up the horizon and burns the fog to nothing.I will leave my shirt hanging from the branch outside your windowand youll know what ...
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:31:00 PST

diamandoids in the rough

I got one of those random add-requests from a 50ish guy from Florida. Out of curiosity, I took a peek at his page. It was interesting, to say the least. Here is a tidbit:>Something wonderful is about ...
Posted by pudge hefflefinger on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:26:00 PST