Category Archives: soul candy

Burning Man Photos

I really, really, really want to go to Burning Man someday. Before it’s completely and irrevocably taken over by commercialism.
Burning Man 2006

Sometimes, humans ain’t so bad.

Dear Friends, my God, what can I say. I am
dumbfounded, flabbergasted, and totally stunned by the
charity and compassion that has poured in here the last
three days.
To steal from Jack Benny, “I do not deserve this, but I
also have severe leg problems and I
don’t deserve them
either.”
Because he was a kind man as well as a funny [...]

A Break From The Bush

The South China Sea
drives in another herd.
The volleyball’s a punching bag:
Clem’s already lost a tooth
& Johnny’s left eye is swollen shut.
Frozen airlifted steaks burn
on a wire grill, & miles away
machine guns can be heard.
Pretending we’re somewhere else,
we play harder.
Lee Otis, the point man,
high on Buddha grass,
buries himself up to his neck
in sand. “Can you see [...]

Tim Hildebrandt, 1939-2006

Tim Hildebrandt, one half of the legendary artistic duo the Brothers Hildebrandt, died on 11 June 2006. Complications from diabetes. As you can see, he was only 67. What a terrible, unfortunate loss.
Every time someone like Tim Hildebrandt dies, it’s like a little piece of me goes with them. Unfortunately, there [...]

YES! YES! YES!

CNN.com – ‘Wonderful day’: Journalist Carroll freed in Iraq – Mar 30, 2006

Even after all we’ve done to them…

They’re still willing to help us.
The Rapid City Journal

This is unbelievably cool.

Seriously.  In every possible way.  I applaud the efforts that certain universities have started making very recently to try to get folks who are not extremely well off through their doors.  This is a ray of light in a dark, dismal sky.
CNN.com – Stanford: No tuition for low-income students – Mar 16, 2006