http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net Airships, Anarchism, Etc. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:29:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At 3:30 on Saturday, March 13th I'll be speaking about anarchism and fiction at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair in San Francisco. I hope that folks can make it out! I'll be doing a slightly different talk than I did on my tour, too, for folks who've already seen me ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/ill-be-speaking-saturday-at-the-bay-area-anarchist-bookfair/ Thanks, Elevator! http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/elevator/ Q: What's the difference between boogers and tofurkey? A: No one eats tofurkey. thanks, Riot Joke! http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/riot-joke/ My good friend Isis started a blog recently, Patterns In The Void. Isis is one of the stranger and more interesting folks that I know, and their blog covers things like the 13 tiers of lying and the esoteric sexual symbology of feral children. They're currently writing a book about ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/patterns-in-the-void/ I'm excited to say that an interview with myself (as well as my co-conspirator Libby Bulloff) will be appearing in Steampunk Reloaded, the second SteamPunk Anthology edited by the marvelous Ann & Jeff VanderMeer. It'll be out in October, and it looks to be as good as the first one ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/steampunk-reloaded/ A bit of my molar came out just now while I was eating a waffle. Doesn't hurt, not yet. I feel like, somehow, this makes me a little closer to Poltics Is Not A Banana with its constant references to "our rotting teeth." http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/teeth/ In what is essentially a textbook case of scapegoating, Fish & Wildlife have begun this years round of sea lion killing. For background about the whole thing, there's an ORC article from two years ago that sums up the problem (the short version is: there's a dam in the river ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/protesting-sea-lion-slaughter-at-bonneville-dam/ (click on image for poster-size pdf). I got an email from the Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective with this poster, that goes over a few political prisoners with birthdays in march. The text on the poster is as follows: Send a birthday card to these political prisoners. It's an easy way to ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/political-prisoners-with-march-birthdays/ So, they've started shooting looters in the aftermath of the Chilean earthquake. They admit right in the first sentence: "One man was shot and killed and some 160 arrested as troops tried to stop the looting of food and other goods during an overnight curfew." The looters are after food, first ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/03/shooting-looters-during-crisises/ I've been continuing to document the Palomar Pipeline and its course through the public lands of Oregon. This time, I went out to the Solo Timber Sale (timber sales have funny names like "Straw Devil", "Biscuit", and, in this case, "Solo"). It was a controversial timber sale that's been fought ... http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2010/02/palomar-pipeline-solo-timber-sale/