Lower Heaven Weekly
Read two new chapters of Lower Heaven each week or subscribe on Patreon for $3 to get all four books in the series so far. New chapters every Wednesday.
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Pinecones & Pages Book Festival
Pinecone & Pages - May 14th, 2022 - Boone, NC - Lower Heaven - Repping for the weird
Commerce ≠ Capitalism
Commerce and capitalism are not the same thing. I think it’s good to separate these concepts that have become so intertwined because making these two terms synonymous leads to all sorts of misunderstandings.
Dry Font
Why does my brain feel sludgy?
We Need Each Other
I just keep thinking that we have to adapt. We still need each other. That never stopped, only becoming more true when the virus hit.
Renting Sucks in Watauga County, Part II
If you’re going to retaliate against someone for speaking generally about renting conditions in Boone, you’ve proved my point that you have more interest in maintaining your market dominance than listening to the community you serve.
How Houseplants Healed My Haunted Mind
I love seeing how popular gardening-especially indoor gardening--is becoming during the pandemic. You don’t realize how much plants can improve a depressing place until you’re forced to be in one for a while.
The Age of Enlightenment is Ending
There is no climate crisis without the Haber-Bosch process, no chemical weapons. There is no mass marketing without sociology and behavioral science. Facebook itself is a scientific triumph that ultimately degrades public discourse and trust in scientific authority.
Renting Sucks in Watauga County
WNC Renters Help is accepting submissions of landlord stories for a new community accountability database!
Mutual Aid, vending machines, zines, cataclysms and then some
It’s been a busy pandemic, that’s for sure. Now accepting zine submissions for publication.
Theory of Change
I’m not saying stop paying attention, or don’t vote. This isn’t a call to not participate in the current system. I am saying vote your conscience come November, but treat that vote as your least important political act of the year.
Guide to Lower Heaven 4: The Ranger's Oath
We the gathered, in observance of the Heavenly Ideals of Merit, Logic, and Freedom, do pledge to consider the full Range of options in defense of the autonomous territory of Heaven as defined. Serving as the activated will of Heaven’s populace, I pledge to:
Changing (the Shape of) the World
When you look at the word “world” long enough it itself falls apart. The ‘rld’ throws the brain back to the time of cairns and charnal grounds, grievous, primordial eras this word has survived through. It’s an Old English car-crash of ‘wer’ and ‘ald’, together the weralt, the Age of Man, the world.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents (or Theory of Change) of an eventual untitled fiction book about organizing and revolutioncraft.
Chatter in the Channel
In one version I have failed to achieve in a conventional sense and am trying to cover my mediocre tracks, wasted the good start I’ve been given and now need to rationalize my bad choices by saying conventional success wasn’t my goal in the first place.
Site Updates, January 2020
The glass-faced pyramids were the first thing your eyes found approaching the island-bound city of Heaven, the house of innovation, the multi-cultural cauldron and crucible, caldera of culture and commerce, the jewel of the south Valley.
Fortuna: A Tarot Card Gambling Game
The official rules for Fortuna, Free Radical’s original tarot card gambling game!
WHETHER OR NOT EPSTEIN KILLED HIMSELF IS NOT THE POINT
Whether or not Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to take his own life, or was coerced into it, or was murdered isn’t relevant to me. The relevant part is that whatever occurred, justice was not the priority.
Time Is Of The Essence Of The Problem.
Thoughts on the Joaquin Phoenix Joker Movie
I loled.