It’s Time to Speak Your Peace: Where, How
While I was reading student papers this morning, a flash of orange caught my eye: the first monarch butterfly of fall.
The maps say I live in Ventura on the edge of Prince Barranca on the bluff above where it dips down to join San Jon Barranca and then the Pacific Ocean.
But the Chumash lived here before I did. For the Chumash, as for me, the return of the monarchs was also a sign of the equinox–of the days getting shorter and the nights longer, and for the Chumash, the time for the Harvest Festival to give thanks to Hutash.
For the Chumash, this is also the start of the new year.
With the arrival of the San Buenaventura Mission, the Festival for Hutash became San Miguel Days as San Miguel Day is in late September. As Ventura became more secular, the celebration of harvest took place in late September or early October at the county fair starting in 1874 and held concurrent or immediately after San Miguel Days until commercial and tourism interests dictated the fair’s move from late September to early August.
As you can see, Ventura has a many centuries old tradition of celebrations timed with the Fall equinox, and this weekend is no exception with events here tied to global events including:
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE and events 9/11-9/21
CALIFORNIA BEER FESTIVAL AND VENTURA COUNTY BEER WEEK 9/14-9/21
PEDAL POWERED ACTIVISM 9/18-21
BEACH CLEAN UPS 9/20
PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH 9/21
Details on all of these activities follow: Read more…
Doors to Dimensions: celebrating and remembering gauvin
Be Here Now: Burning Man 2014 Video
Published just yesterday, here’s the latest Burning Man video from KJ + Stefan Spins.
This is the duo who, with the help of a cast of a thousand, made one of my favorite Burning Man videos, 2011’s Home, using the song from Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros.
This year’s video Read more…
So you’re missing Burning Man? Were you out in BRC last Saturday night and tonight you’re wishing you were back on the playa? Well…here’s how to recreate what you’re missing! Start the video, put on BMIR, and
Recreate & Enjoy the Burning Man experience!
1. Pay an escort of your affectional preference subset to not bathe for five days, cover themselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky neon wig, dance close naked, then say they have a lover back home at the end of the night.
2. Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any direction. Put the house back together. Invite everyone you meet to come over and party. When they leave, follow them back to their homes, drink all their booze, and break things.
3. Stack all your fans in one corner of the living room. Put on your most fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on full blast. Dump a vacuum cleaner bag in front of them. Dance for six hours. Sleep in your clothes Read more…
Burning Man 2014 Re-entry: Burner and Kid Friendly Event at Art City Gardens, Ventura
How’s your re-entry going post Burning Man?
Don’t be surprised if it’s a little rough–that’s normal!
While tonight’s event at Art City isn’t exactly like being at Burning Man or at a BMOrg sanctioned event (which is why I can’t call it a Decompression Party!), it is a chance to dance around a fire under the moonlight and disco ball–and roast some food too!
Trippers Hollow and Art City Ventura present Las Saucetronauts, cooking up globetronic saucedelic hippy-hop sounds TONIGHT Sept. 5, 2014 Read more…
Burning Man 2014: Vinegar and Honey
The Man Burn live feed filmed by Larry Nimmer and then projected onto the TMSL aka Big TV Mutant Vehicle during the Burn. Also pictured: tea pots mutant vehicle.
We made it back from Burning Man Monday night which means time to get assimilated again, get cleaned up, and get caught up. For my son, that means a lot of math homework that he’s agonizing over–and keeping me from doing what I need to do to prepare for school!
After the sweetness of Burning Man, it’s time for the vinegar.
Because of the chemical make-up of the playa, Read more…
How To Celebrate Int’l Cabernet Day: Cabaret at Burning Man
It’s a Cabernet Day Cabaret! Hosted by Art/Wine Predator and SonomaWineGuy in Black Rock City at the intersection of Rods Road and Cinnamon at 545 on Thurs. Aug. 28 from 6-9pm!
How will YOU celebrate the 5th annual Cabernet Day the last Thursday in August–this year August 28?
How about with a Cabaret in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada at Burning Man?
The idea behind Cabernet Day is simple—enjoy any Cabernet based wine (Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet blends) and share your experience on social media sites.
Since I will once again be at Burning Man for Cabernet Day, Jim Morris and I are hosting a Cabernet Day Cabaret
View original post 350 more words
“I want a trouble-maker for a lover:
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame,
Who quarrels with the sky, and fights with fate,
Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”
Vonnegut: “We are what we pretend to be” at Burning Man
This is a page from Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions. If I could put my hands on my copy, I’d look the page up. Maybe you know which page it is.
Anyway, on Facebook, people connect this image with the following quote which they attribute to Vonnegut:
Everything is nothing with a twist.
Right now everything seems pretty twisted in my world. We only had one slippery ticket to Burning Man, and we needed two, and a friend just scored two and will sell me one.
UPDATE 8.10.14 10:14pm Ticket slipped through our fingers again!
UPDATE 8.15.14 We’ve got tickets! Now just need to get the vehicle pass in hand!
But when we had only one ticket, Read more…
You Want To See “A Most Wanted Man”
Few writers can match the insightful and spellbinding complexities of being a spy like John le Carre (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), for not only does he understand the methodical realities of spying, he also knows all too well the politics behind the spy operations. In A Most Wanted Man, he has once again given us a book that has been masterfully translated by director Anton Corbijn and screenwriter Andrew Bovell into a fast-moving peek into the maze that is counter intelligence as it looks into possible terrorism after the 9/11 attack on America.
art predator 