Category: Personal
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It’s Valentine’s Day (aka 25 Bahman), and people all over the world are fighting for their civil liberties
Two and a half years after I wrote It’s the Fourth of July and we’re fighting for our civil liberties, it’s another activism-filled holiday. Today’s House vote extending the Patriot Act until December went as expected, passing 275-144.  Now the action shifts to the Senate; EFF has more.  Nothing to see here, move along,…
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Notes from Underground: I’m noticing a pattern here …
Hey, guess what? Civil liberties activism and psytrance! Back in 2008, It’s the Fourth of July and we’re fighting for our civil liberties was written the day after Senator Obama responded to Get FISA Right’s open letter. It was a great moment in grassroots civil liberties activism, and the bonds we formed then have remained. …
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Notes from Underground: Vibration spanning the decades (New Years Weekend 2010/2011)
Last New Year’s Eve, the card for the “final outcome” in my Tarot reading was Temperance, which represents vibration.*  And what a coincidence: guess what tonight’s psytrance party is called? It’s been a long decade. Ten years ago, things were spiralling down: the dot-com crash, a stolen presidential election, with Enron and 9/11 fast approaching.  …
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Notes from Underground: A Death Guild Twofer
We got back from D’s family around 6 p.m. Christmas Day, car stuffed with food and presents. Looks like we won’t starve 🙂 Then we took a nap, and after munching on leftover spaghetti I headed out to Death Guild’s X-Mess night at the DNA Lounge. Saturday night in the big city! How cool is…
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Notes from Underground: Psymbolic and Entheogenic Garden. Hail Eris! All Hail Discrodia!
An experiment, a (net)work in progress, a meta-level solution, a work of art… e-luminatus Another Geomagnetic party at the Gingerbread House, and then Arjuna at a downtown venue I haven’t been before … time to take a quick break from the infowar and civil disobedience for a weekend of psytrance in San Francisco!
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What Did You Win by Playing Sports? Rally to Help Girls’ Sports Day
I almost never blog about sports here … but since today is National Women’s Law Center’s Rally to Help Girls’ Sports Day, I figured I’d make an exception. The theme for the blogging day is “What did you win by playing sports?” First, though, a little context. And it’s something that made a lot of…
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Time to celebrate!
November was such a busy month that I didn’t do any journalling. But now, with the draft of g0ddesses.net wrapped up, it seems like a good time start up again. So … Wow, what a month. I wrote a novel! Well, at least a draft of one … 75,000 words. g0ddesses.net needs a lot of…
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Notes from underground: Electro-convulsive therapy (Mad Maxx and Space Tribe at Geomagnetic.tv’s Phantasmagoria)
Olli Wisdom was good, Mad Maxx was better, and Saturnia, Witchdokta, Michael Liu, Sausee and of course Spook all rocked. It wasn’t real crowded so the density on the dancefloor was perfect all night long. My glow-in-the-dark nails got rave reviews and my brand new pink Golas proved quite comfortable for dancing. Yay! The first…
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Sweet Kona sunsets: Summer vacation 2010
Our last real vacation had been in June 2007, also on the Big Island of Hawaii. Just a few weeks before we left Microsoft had told me that they planned to lay me off (although they didn’t give notice for three months) so I was somewhat stressed. Since then, well, by the end of 2007…
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Notes from underground: heading into the home stretch
It’s another Geomagnetic.tv party, this time at the Gingerbread House — which is open for business again, apparently having gotten its permits in order. San Francisco’s “War on Fun” has even gotten coverage in Reason magazine; as Lois Beckett asks in SF Weekly, is it enforcement or harrassment? Hopefully it’ll all be copacetic tonight …
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Twenty-four years. Wow.
April 11, 1986, was our first date. I had no idea what it would turn into. Lucky me! 🙂 Happy Virtual Anniversary!
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Notes from underground: Warmth for Valentine’s Day
So tonight, and the rest of the weekend, I’ll be choosing desire over fear, trusting my intuition, trying not to analyze things too much, falling through the limitations of intelligence into pure and simple creativity, and bringing inner ecstasy back into my consciousness. And hopefully that’ll set the rhythm up for the entire year —…
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Tales from underground: HOTwired Seattle!
This’ll be the first time we’ve been to Seattle’s psytrance monthly HOTwired since it moved to Waid’s a couple of months ago. Aminata and Osiris Indriya, Lara, Blue Spectral Monkey … and it goes to 4 a.m. w00t! Time to dance!!!!!
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Notes from underground: from the Awful Aughts to a blue moon and an embarassment of riches (New Year’s weekend 2009/2010)
Wow! The psytrance scene tends to be feast or famine, but this is ridiculous! With New Year’s Eve falling on a blue moon and a Thursday night, there’s so many options for the weekend that it’s hard to know what to do. Good problem to have!
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Notes from underground: five years later (Space Tribe at Geomagnetic.tv’s Psyonesis)
As the sample Olli Wisdom started his set with phrased it, “To infinity – and beyond!” [At the set’s climax] a song built around the guitar part from Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” (with a minor change in the only lyric: “I want my LSD”) had the whole crowd playing air guitar. “You gotta be…
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Notes from underground: Love and Devotion — and social network activism on Valentine’s Day
Last week’s Psylebration, rescheduled after permitting problems, debuted the cool new Sera Phi Healing Center. Tonight, it’s Rastaliens — psychedelic trance from Switzerland!