i’m always leaving for places. last week i was going to south dakota. the month before i was heading to london. a year before i was going to eastern europe. on the plane from eastern europe to western europe i had an idea for how i’d spend the next summer. now its next summer. and tomorrow i leave for idaho. i always want to go places where people are doing interesting things. i moved to mexico city, i moved to brooklyn, i moved to berlin. whenever i got anywhere i had to find cool things to do in hopes of stumbling upon cool people. (cool places are often a great place to find cool people btw) i’d challenge myself to be more outgoing, and to be going out every night. but i could never crack the code. i’d meet tons of people who’d never met each other. there was no common link in the cities, and i’d feel like i’d never totally connected to the place. but idaho will be different. it’s an ostensibly cool place, but this time we’re bringing people with us. but more than just the people we’re bringing, we’re bringing an idea. (the idea is worth talking about elsewhere) and an idea whatever it is brings people together (for better or worse, but obviously i hope for better) so a month from now when i’m getting ready to leave for someplace else (oakland for just a weekend) i’ll have a community of friends that i’m looking forward to seeing again. and it’d normally take a lot longer if you don’t bring a cohesive sticky idea along with you.

Come to our temporary intentional community somewhere in North America... Summer Commune

If you've paid attention to my oeuvre, you'd notice that right now I am pretty much just adapting 2007 Blogspot era posts into tweets.

Summer Commune

Hey Summer Communards,

The summer is only a few months away. We're officially heading to Moscow, Idaho from June 1st to mid-August! Here's a little fact sheet about the city and things to do. We'll update this page as the summer approaches. (If you have inside info on Moscow, email us!)

ARE YOU COMING TO SUMMER COMMUNE?

We need to know who's coming with us! Please fill out THIS FORM and let us know your plans.

WANT TO GET MORE INVOLVED? CAN'T COME BUT WANT TO HELP? WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING?

As much as possible, the summer will be shaped by diverse group input. If you have ideas or experience or just want to be more involved with the planning process, we need your help! In the twelve weeks between now and summer, several small committees will help facilitate this process for everyone.

Find out about Committees & how you can help at the first of several virtual Meetings on MONDAY, MARCH 19, 6:30PM PST via Google Hangout. Minutes of this meeting will be posted onsummercommune.org.

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I've used this blog for a long time...

I feel like I should be better to it. It was the training ground for my travel writing--for all of my creative endeavors.

I got addicted to the Internet's sequel: Web 2.0 (i literally stole this phrase from the SXSW magazine.) Tumblr became my main blog because people could reblog a post. On Facebook friends I hadn't seen in decades could like something 'quirky' that I said. And a legion of P0rno spammers can read all the puns I could ever tweet.

But this blog has kinda been there. The consistent thing that I'd written in when I had something worthy to write. And maybe I should get back into it you know? Catalog the current of my life as opposed to having to wade through every funny thing I decided to reblog onto tumblr.

I guess I don't write publicly about my inner thoughts because when I write something good I sell it to somebody. (Currently vibing off the success of this post)

And when I have partially formed thoughts I just jot them down into my notebook or into a word document entitled "March" (which I forgot to create for this month, which is probably why I'm writing this sentimental post inside this blog.)

So nothing really new, maybe just a commitment to write a few monthly posts into this little guy. At least so you'll see the evolution of my craft. From kinda bad to kinda good. (Just kidding from kinda bad to excellent.)