It’s quite an experience to go from reading a newspaper in a segregation cell in prison to sitting in the production offices of that paper and contributing to producing it. That sentiment would probably be the closest I can come to attempting to put some context around my weekend.
Interestingly, I was doing some stuff over [...]
Hahaha! Wow, I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since before I want to prison, so its been at least 13 years. And who would have possibly thought that the first movie I’d see in a theater would be… wait for it, you’ll never fucking guess Sex and the City *shudders*
Well that was [...]
[ Cue the music ] Well my Parole Officer just came here, gave me a drug test (which I passed, obviously), and is going to submit me to get off parole tomorrow. Once he submits me it kind of goes up the chain of command, to his supervisor, then like the regional supervisor, then [...]
I had a chance to make it down to Champaign-Urbana this weekend to see my friend Brian and meet some of the great people at the Independent Media Center there. I met Brian through the Books to Prisoners program they run while I was in Pontiac, and they published a few things I wrote in [...]
My old friend Peter and his wife Ariadne are in town again and we’ve spent most of the week together having a great time. We spent a lot of time just hanging out at his parents house with his sister’s kids, who are all so fun and lively. Had some great conversations and discussions as [...]
Yeah, today is my 30th birthday… This is probably the first time I actually “celebrated” my birthday in any way since I was like 15 years old. My cousin made me a big-ass cake - in response to the cake with 30 candles I got her for her 30th last year - a few [...]
Time ceaselessly slips slowly through my fingers as I strain to grasp hold of some tenuous meaning
Progeny of Isolation, born of that dark crypt wherein boys are cast and this unfinished man was molded
Brought forth in desolation, searching for some mysterious amorphous
Undefined
Elusive solutions evade resolution
Questions lie scattered along the path
As I set out once again [...]
During the March 19, 2008 protests against 5 years of war and occupation in Iraq I was briefly interviewed by Labor Beat while I was demonstrating in an orange jumpsuit and hood indicative of the type of apparel used by the U.S. government for torture in its “detention facilities” across the globe. For the majority [...]
Apparently a recent opinion in my favor from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a lawsuit I began in prison has generated a bit of chatter on the internets. The lawsuit began after the Illinois Department of Corrections refused to provide me with a vegetarian diet, a diet required to comport with my religious [...]
I was out and about in the city over the weekend, primarily to attend a presentation by Raymond Lotta on Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism. Unfortunately I missed most of the talk due to having to work unexpectedly, but the Q&A afterward was great and I had a chance to have a number of good conversations [...]
