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Ok, so here's the deal. I'm still blogging, but you have to go here to see it. Have a great day! Captain's Blog :: Jan 24, 2008 Ok. I get that I'm a blogging deadbeat. There you are. Anyway, I just wanted to get it out there that I helped to kill Heath Ledger. I've been an entertainment news junkie (closeted of course) for about a year now, and my eyeballs have provided a fraction of the impetus for the paparazzi Captain's Blog :: Aug 30, 2007 If you haven't read my javelina story, then the irony of not being able to get to my truck last night because of the angry timber rattler might be lost on you. So read it. And then pity me. In other news, the coolest link we've received to our web site ReadItNews.com comes courtesy of Preszkit.com. Click here or on the picture to check out Teresa Alexander's opus in bits and bytes. Captain's Blog :: Aug 25, 2007 Local HOA's be warned! If I have my way, I'm gonna be writing a local version of this Right to Dry movement story any day now. Lil' advanced tidbit - did you know that Janet Napolitano has made it legally not okay for an HOA to crush someone's right to rooftop photovoltaic cells? Anyhow, the basic thrust is what HOA's do to require civic and environmental badness, and how that's (hopefully) about to change. And yes I love this story because I'm a maladjusted rebel. But you all reading this blog already know that. Captain's Blog :: Aug 14, 2007 Wanna be a citizen journalist? Here are some links: Arizona Indymedia - Just click on the publish button and you're there! Prescott E-News - The newest, most local venue to be a citizen journalist! And now.... How about some fiction? If you're a kid, upload your efforts to KidPub. And of course, though this doesn't really count as citizen journalism, don't forget to get your own blog at Blogger. To see some of my own examples of sorta citizen journalism, go to the blog archives and check out my Camp Casey entries or go read my bike tour travelogue. Have fun! Haley from Mr. Holton's class at Kestrel High School has suggested Poetry.com. Beware, though. Once you upload your work, they own it. Captain's Blog :: Aug 10, 2007 Listen to me on the radio, internet style. It's all about the magazine! Captain's Blog :: July 30, 2007 We'll were almost ready for the new magazine. Interests lately: Sanctuary movement, for when the family-centered party doesn't think yours matters. Parrotted PTSD treatment for veterans, for people who don't think prevention's a good idea. And an interview with yours truly on Coyote Radio. Captain's Blog :: February 24, 2007 Read It Here has a new story on sustainability by yours truly: Doing well by doing good: sustainable businesses make inroads in the quad cities. In other news, I'm toying with a new bike tour, either in Wales/Scotland or in Sweden/Denmark. Email me if you have any suggestions. By the way, if you haven't heard of Lora Lopas, you soon will. She, like me has been in Prescott for about 100 years and she has some great ideas about where Prescott should be headed, and I think we're all about to hear them! Captain's Blog :: February 12, 2007 Some of you know that I was up on the Hopi Rez last year helping out on a straw bale building project. Well, High Country News just ran my story about that experience. Speaking of High Country News, check out Craig Child's essay on his mountain lion encounter. It's running on www.readitnews.com as syndicated content. Captain's Blog :: January 26, 2007 In case you were wondering, Google is sorta gone evil-ish. I heard a rumor about their having created a censored version of their ubiqui-search engine for China and so I called up China-Google, www.google.cn, typed in Tiananmen and compared it to what came up in the regular ol' Google page. Try it for yourself: Tiananmen in Regular Ol' Google. Let me know what you think. Email me if you have an opinion. I'll post them here next time I post. Captain's Blog :: January 24, 2007 Hey! I'm getting better! Can you believe it? Email me if you have your doubts. Mark Vinci has a new gallery of art on his site, designed by yours truly. Visit it at MarkVinciArt.com. In other news, the unnatural warming of the earth is encouraging polar bear mamas to build their dens on dry land. Meanwhile, as their feeding patterns become more and more disrupted, the Department of the Interior is proposing to list them as a threatened species. And folks are worried about the Alps melting. Sheesh. Until next time, you could always be doing the VBRP tango. Captain's Blog :: January 20, 2007 I'm a terrible monkey. I used to update this site, but lately, all my updating's been on my other site, www.readitnews.com. That's where the online version of my news magazine, Read It Here lives. And I think, well what am I going to talk about? The fact that I taught my homely little box kitten to fetch? The fact that global warming (or as Ed Boyer, a local professor likes to call it, worldwide conflagration - sounds more like it is, he says) has gotten so bad even the Evangelicals are starting to freak out about it? I promise you, I will try to update this site more, but if I don't, here's the link to the site that gets totally transformed every week: http://www.readitnews.com. And, if you're bored, you can always go back and read my bike tour travelog, or my latest article about Pig's feet. Until the next time, remember that now's not the time to build on permafrost. Captain's Blog :: October 13, 2006 Well, I just got back from building a staw bale house with a whole lot of "Hippies and Hopis" in Northern Arizona. That's what my friend Candace calls them anyway. It's an ongoing project of some folks out of Bozeman, Montana. They've built two houses on 3rd Mesa so far and don't show any signs of letting up. I've been back nearly two weeks and my fingers are still peeling from the drywall mud, Portland cement, bitter freaking cold and questionable sanitation. I came home with a fever and a mild case of dysentary. But I'm mostly better now and Kerry Shebola now has a house on a ridge near a grove of spring fed cottonwoods. In other news, I've acquired a bit of animated fluff. Her name is Walter, a kitten Art found duct taped in a box with her siblings. We think momma cat was taped in there too, but she escaped. I'll post pictures as soon as she does something cute. Just kidding. She does cute stuff all the time. Like when Murray, our grown up cat, started to stalk her, all of the lint that covers her tiny body stood on end. He wants to play with her, but he's still in that "I'm way to cool to let you in on how bad I want to play with you" mode. Captain's Blog :: September 1, 2006 So I've been very riveted by the story of the Herrin Twins. I think it's the fact that the family of these 4-year-old formerly conjoined twins have let the world in on what is really a pretty intimate family story. The family website, linked above, has a great weblog reaching back several years, but if you want to see the Herrin twins in film, click here. Otherwise, it's been a lot of enjoying the thunderstorms that are one of the best reasons to live in the Southwest, prosecuting my writing career with an intensity that sometimes gives me a headache and... oh yeah. I'm going to be working as a part-time archeological technician on the Arizona strip. Because I like to get outside, right? And because it pays well. But I'll only do that for a few days this month before my good friend Candace McNulty and I head up to the Hopi Reservation to participate in this Red Feather build. It's going to be two weeks of stacking strawbales on one another and smearing them with lots of stucco while being surrounded by lots of other people doing the same thing. I'll definitely report back when I'm through. Captain's Blog :: August 6, 2006 Ok, I know it's been like three years since I've posted anything. As for the last adventure, I have scars to prove that it was a hot, miserable disaster. It finally ended when we dropped our bundles of stakes (mine tied with lengths of my father's oxygen tubing) near a rattlesnake lair and Kevin decreed the job over. Something about hiring half-a-dozen men dumber, stronger and younger than he or I. So that was that. My next adventure took me to Honduras. I was tired and burnt-out, you see, from caring for my parents, both of whom had bouts with trauma and the x-rays to prove they hadn't come out ahead. I made it to Utila, a small island off the north coast of the country, where the beer is cheaper than water and crabs outnumber the rats by about 10 times. Everyone there was young, good-looking and hooked on diving. Eye-contact is an apparent cultural no-no. I got a bunch of writing assignments and spent more time hunched in the internet cafe down the (only) road than in the bars where I rightfully belonged. Art had a great time scuba diving (witness below) and I taught myself how to free dive mainly by not having a clue I was free-diving. My deepest dive was 40 feet, according to Art's depth gauge. Art left on the 17th, and I got back to Prescott on the 26th. Of late, I have a terrible back injury and am stuck mainly working on writing projects and wondering if I'll ever be able to stand up straight again. I'll let you know what happens. Until next time, you canna change the laws of physics. Captain's Blog :: June 13, 2006 Wish me luck. I'm about to go out into the field and stake some gold claims. Why? I'm a fool. See, I got this idea about a week ago that it wasn't such a good idea to sit in front of my computer all day, that instead, I should go outside and work. I haven't seen my dad this worried since I went off on my bike tour. And he got me the job after all. It's gonna be 110 degrees or something, though, and, after all, it's only been one month exactly since he fell off a cliff while staking his own gold claims somewhere out in the desert near where I'll be. "I survived a month, huh?" says Daddy. "That's a good sign, right?" It's not like he minded being in the hospital all that much. He had cute blond ladies teaching him how to breathe again. But still, he worries about me. He's handing me all the gear that he normally carries, the heavy cotton long-sleeved shirt that kept him from getting melanoma sooner than he actually did, the oxygen tubing from his mishap that he says might be helpful for binding stakes, and with much ceremony, he gave me a Brunton lesson. Turns out a Brunton (which for much of my childhood held much mystique as a tool of my daddy's extractive trade) is just a compass. Only took about five minutes. I'll keep you all posted! If you want to comment, visit this post at www.dreamfactoryink.blogspot.com. Best, Erica. Captain's Blog :: April 24, 2006 HAPPY EARTH DAZE!!! Gonna do a plug for some of my friends. Visit Root Concepts, the colorful t-shirt and bumper sticker company at www.neverbetter.com, grab a little artistic succor at Prescott Murals, and don't forget Women in Black, every Friday at the courthouse square from 5 to 6 p.m.
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