... but instead I decided this was much more fun. It's important that we share and preserve the memories of the many bizarre, funny, creative and depraved things we've done for our children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews before we get too old to remember. I have to credit Carla and her thread on her Facebook page about being bitten by monkeys with this idea for a blog in a lighter vein. So here goes -
Remember when some of us had a girl's weekend in Chicago? Julie, Nora and I along with Joe, the neurosurgeon from Nova Scotia, (not sure how he got involved with a girl's weekend) went to Excalibur. There we were on the top floor leaning over the railing, minding our own business shooting bugs into bimbo's cleavage when a bouncer had the audacity to threaten us with expulsion just when our aim was getting better.
Anyway, please feel free to share. Here's a few words to jog your memory.
Dick's Last Resort
KitKat Club
nipplecappers
ditches of Itasca
Rawhide
Pink Cadillac and busdrivers
Orange cones and Irish Fest
Sunday, February 8, 2009
More Books and Community
So are you feeling secure in the current economy? I'm guessing most people are pretty worried right now but other than generalities don't talk about it too much. While I'll never underestimate the abilities of the "powers that be" to keep this house of cards standing, continuing on as we have just isn't possible for much longer. I cringe when politicians proclaim that we much save "our American way of life". As far as I'm concerned the goal of our way of life is to keep us busy, buying and ignorant. The goal cannot be to keep our economy "growing" as this is simply not sustainable.
A couple books I've been reading address this as well as how we will need to depend on our local community in the (probably very near) future. One, A Reasonable Life by Ferenc Mate http://www.ecobooks.com/books/reasonablelife.htm, was written in 1993 and the other, Depletion and Abundance by Sharon Astyk, has only recently been published. http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46908 - see review here. Sharon's book focuses more on why peak energy and climate change will force these changes on us than Mate's book. Of course the present drop in energy usage due to the economy will push forward the date of peak oil/energy as the late 70's recession pushed forward the date of peak oil in the U.S. (Hubbard's Peak).
At any rate I found both of these books informative and even uplifting in the sense that we can have a very satisfying, if not better, life with less.
Check out Sharon Astys's blog http://sharonastyk.com/ and
Allison Arieff's http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/
A couple books I've been reading address this as well as how we will need to depend on our local community in the (probably very near) future. One, A Reasonable Life by Ferenc Mate http://www.ecobooks.com/books/reasonablelife.htm, was written in 1993 and the other, Depletion and Abundance by Sharon Astyk, has only recently been published. http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46908 - see review here. Sharon's book focuses more on why peak energy and climate change will force these changes on us than Mate's book. Of course the present drop in energy usage due to the economy will push forward the date of peak oil/energy as the late 70's recession pushed forward the date of peak oil in the U.S. (Hubbard's Peak).
At any rate I found both of these books informative and even uplifting in the sense that we can have a very satisfying, if not better, life with less.
Check out Sharon Astys's blog http://sharonastyk.com/ and
Allison Arieff's http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/
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