…One Less Scene

I recently saw a documentary called “Commune”, that was about a group of people that inhabit a piece of land in a remote spot in California called Black Bear Ranch. The community was (and is) a radical collective of misfits, complete with activists on the run from the FBI, nudists, poets, farmers, and children. In [...]

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I had pretty mixed reactions when I heard about the Critical Mass ride that “erupted in violence” on Friday; bike messengers by default hate Seattle Critical Mass rides these days, but it wasn’t always that way. There was a time when messengers actually had a presence in the rides, but that was back when we [...]

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My Dad recently moved to the Phillipines to work on a farm with his girlfriend. Before he left, we sat down and had a few beers while I asked him about what it was like to evade the Vietnam draft. As always, he made it seem like no big deal, but his refusal to obey [...]

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