Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous.
More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
- Primo Levi

Getting Famous for Just Being
in a tree

A recent article about the situation, plus a photo.



Woah, video.

Singing an original tune called "Tiny Girl" about twenty-five feet in the air to the recently-established, weekly salon at the Oak Grove

The second time the cops raid our camp and steal all of our stuff. In the background, you can hear me sing We Shall Overcome from my perch.


Sweeeet.

Nah, it's all in the name of seeing the games for free! Cheap bastages.

Don't you know you can watch the football games from those trees, without going through the inconvenience of PAYING for a ticket!

Compare Stanford to Cal:
1- Stanford tears down their stadium the day AFTER their season ends. New stadium is up and running weeks before football season is set to start.

2- Cal continues to study and evaluate plans that might see the light of day in 10 years. By then the COmmies from American Indian Movement will be using that land as a burial ground! (The hippies latest trick). Those aging hippie Indians may only have been 50 years old, but they all looked like they would die in a week.

(private reply:)

Hello, I am the Otter in the picture to which you wrote this response. Good to meet you.

I merely wanted to let you know that you are mistaken. Perhaps a tree near the Stadium that you've climbed is a good place to watch the games, perhaps East of the Stadium, up in Strawberry Creek?

The tree sitters protesting in the Memorial Oak Grove (a "Memorial," along with the Stadium, to those who died in World War I), are protesting west of the Stadium, below it, and cannot see into the stadium. None of our tree-sits are above the rim. The most we get to see is the sassy young co-eds work out.

'Just wanted to clear that up. Let me know if you have any other questions for a tree sitter.

Peace,
-Otter

Check out the rest:
Free Republic Chat Board of which i am at least partly the subject, bizarre.

san francisco farmer's market

I've been offered the opportunity to live in Berkeley, in a giant house, with a three-million-dollar, 180-degree panoramic view of the entire bay area, with a community of truly loving and intentional people, for FREE. One detail: the "house" is a grove of trees, some of them 200-year-old Oaks, that we are protecting from CalBerkeley development by living there. There's a bit of a derth of willing tree-sitters (which I find hard to believe), but I spent a night up there (after a sesriously fateful series of events in San Francisco), and LOVE it.

This might be the next vagabonding adventure...

Stay tuneful.

{CHORUS:}

[/A/E/A/D/A/E/E/A]

It all comes down to havin' babies.
It all comes down to havin' babies.
Hey, it all comes down to havin' babies.
When it comes to babies we act like crazies.

( And there's much, much more where that came from. Right here. )

{VERSE V}

Now if we can just get over having babies,
and stop them opening up that new Macy's,
a few of us could survive,
we might just stay alive.
The rest of you are fucked, ya crazies.

{FINAL CHORUS:}

Because it all comes down to havin' babies,
Yes, it all comes down to havin' babies.
It all comes down to havin' babies,
when it comes to babies we act like crazies.

1. Instead of buying leaky little Ford Ranger with smooshed(!) camper shell, I will buy some other, cheaper SUV- or station wagon-type vehicle, spending a projected $2000 instead of the whopping $4000 that the Ranger was gonna cost me.

(By the way, anyone know a car with good gas mileage that'll sleep one, maybe two, comfortably? I can manage with a good bucket seat, really.)

I'm thinking this
or this.


2. Open my own little childcare business called Singing Nanny Services. Bookable for parties, libraries, naptimes, and group playdates. $10/hour/kid, allowing me to work about 10-30 hours a week and spend the rest of the time practicing guitar and doing yoga and cooking for Mei and Tonya.

3. Work out my easy rent situation so that it's fair to Tonya and Mei and Chris and Me. I think I'm gonna do a Love Token deal. Each Love Token is worth $10 or 1 hour of ordinary work, obviously flexible and sliding scale. I'll give them 40 of these tokens a month to spend with me, and that'll be how I pay the equivalent of $400 rent, the going rate for a teensy basement in the outskirts of Boulder.

3. Get to Colorado in time to paint Lynsey's house on January 27th and to take care of the dogs, Frodo and Pippin, on February 8th, and help Andi move and have her baby, Sierra! OMG! Amaaaazing!



As per the Yoozsh (short for "usual), my life is pretty f*ckin' sweet.


Anyone care to join me in Colorado for some yoga and folk songs?

Wish me luck and properity, or just go ahead and send me some money or something. :)

So... Athena Lynn sings, apparently.

Huh.

So, upon further reflection (prompted by a day spent bed-ridden by some kind of stomach bug), I will be postponing my cross-country driving adventure until I return from Europe. I apologize for the tease, but I had to face the numerical facts that saving up for a one-year vagabonding adventure in Europe and beyond while simultaneously driving all over the United States, all in a window of about six months (I leave for Europe this July), is just plain silly. Now, I've got nothing against silliness, but silliness at the expense of my psychological sanity and financial reality is silliness I can do without.


Coming to a City Near You in 2009: Athena Lynn, American Folksinger and Vagabond Extraordinaire

Poll #903962 Stage Name? (rate each one, then add your own suggestion)
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

Athena Lynn

Athena

Athena Lynn Osborn

Suggestions?

Guess what everybody?!

Athena's finally figured out how to tackle the next seven months! (-Until she leaves the country for probably a year. I'm thinking Spain.)

Sooner than seems possible, I will be taking up residence... in a truck.
Despite the sting of guilt upon re-entering the consumer petroleum market, this will afford me the freedom I need to properly thumb my nose at "the establishment" and "coercive state structures" and "hegemony" and "career paths" and "surveillance" and "success" and "competition," and set about the real work of forwarding Awesomism and its progeny.


Details to follow.