The Military Comes Home...

According to the Army Times, the 3rd Infantry Division's 1rst Brigade Combat Team has left Iraq and is being relocated to Peterson Airforce Base here in Colorado for homeland defense efforts. They are being stationed here to prevent civil unrest. With the crashing economy, the dying environment, and failed bi-partisan policies, the military is beginning to see the people of this country as a threat and is mobilizing the army to stop us from engaging in our inalienable right and constitutional right supported by the spirit of the Declaration of Independence to overthrow this failing government. Alas. It is the government who is bringing the war home.

San Luis Valley

Late last week I took a couple days of comp time. Friday, Hillary and I headed down to the San Luis Valley. We climbed around Great Sand Dunes National Park, drove through the valley dividing the Sangre de Cristos and the San Juan Mountains, and experienced the untold beauty of that harsh, wild land. We stopped at a sanctuary for alligators, a small tilapia farm where they used ex-pet gators to eat their dead fish. We relaxed at Valley View Hot Springs in small pools of warm water looking out over the valley at sunset. We drove through the incredible landscape in a car I rented back here in Denver and soaked up the natural beauty of this state. As the earth teeters on collapse, its incredible to take the time to look at places that have not been radically destroyed by suburbanization, industrial economies, and the violence of human beings. Funny, we needed to use a car to do it.

Nuclear Power: Obama and McCain Creep Me Out

Remember Chernobyl???

What the hell is wrong with these creeped out, freaked out, late-capitalist politicians dragging our country and our world into environmental and economic collapse?

Why do we have two candidates who are for energy that will leave us ecologically destroyed?

Presidential Debate?

Our country is pathetic. We help the rich, screw the poor, and have candidates whose policies appear nearly identical. What is it other than stupid faith that compels me to vote for Obama? This debate, this year, this country is sick with greed and pandering.

Let Wall Street weep.

I want a reasonable political debate without nuclear power, bombing Afghanistan, phony environmentalism, and a race towards death taking the priority.

Documenting the Sublime

For the past week I have been documenting my life as often as possible, the people I love, their images, their possessions, our lives together. I am working to piece together daily video diaries that show whatever beauty I find. Our economy is in decline, our government is corrupt, and I can think of no better protest against the grim violence of capitalism than to document those things I find beautiful, connected, and inspirational. I want to document the sublime in the every day, all the possibility we represent.

For The Dying American Empire

Goodbye Capitalism. Goodbye USA!

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas








Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.