Category Archives: Personal

2010 in review

Right, I forgot to do one of these last year, but I’d managed for 2008. I toured the US with my book Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction, culminating in a talk with Ursula K Le Guin at Powell’s … Continue reading

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Ten years in, my thoughts on veganism

This is a few months premature. I quit eating animal products in, as best I can guess, February 2001. Regardless, I’ve had thoughts stewing in my head about this thing that I’ve chosen, so I might as well spit them … Continue reading

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The debate about police

A photo of myself posing with Shane Shane, who played the same show as I did last night. I was wearing that shirt when Shane Shane, from the audience, suggested that he had a different opinion on the matter. Fortunately, … Continue reading

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New theme

I started Birds Before the Storm about two years ago now, and I’ve had the same theme the whole time. When I first started it, I was obsessed with airships and had been doing a lot of research into the … Continue reading

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The US. woo.

Well, I’m back in the States. Usually I’m so excited about leaving wherever it is I am to go somewhere else, but I didn’t really want to leave this time. Two days ago I woke up in a sailboat docked … Continue reading

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Once the road laid open

Contrast! Above: the sky this evening over the lake. Below: “She Fell Away” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (not a video, just a song) Tweet

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Life Under The Jolly Roger

I do a little bit of the social networking thing. I’m not on Facebook, but I’m on Goodreads, under the name Margaret Killjoy. I post reviews of the books that I read. Short reviews, mostly. I guess this is my … Continue reading

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The best visual overview of contemporary punk, period.

Hands down, the best visual overview of what punks look like, at least in the US right now, is a tumblr called Punks I’d Like To Fuck. I think the tumblr started as a “look at the hot punk boy” … Continue reading

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My friend Emilja takes awsome photos

My friend Emilja takes awesome photos, mostly of the awesome various anarcho house punks of Asheville. But the most recent photos on their flickr are of Ida, which is basically queer happy wonderland, where I was last year but this … Continue reading

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Wave Gotik Treffen

tonight was the last night of Wave Gotik Treffen. certainly, like nothing i’ve seen before. rather than holding the festival on a single fairground, they turn the entire city of leipzig into the festival. goths wander everywhere, their armbands being … Continue reading

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