Today’s project is a re-visualization of Business Insider’s charts for their post ‘What the Wall Street Protestors are so Angry about…‘

McCandless has a gift for making data instantly grok-able.

Sweden at 23x still seems pretty damn high. The poverty line for a 4 person family in the US is $22,050 and I started to play with the numbers above before I realized that they’re based on the Gini Coefficient…which is above my math level.

Though sometimes narrative can be much more powerful. This one has been making the rounds.

Because of the first two people, I might know *slightly* more than the average Joe about Crohn’s disease — mostly I remember it being incredibly painful for those who had it. It seems a disease in which one feels compelled to try most any solution, requiring constant self-experimentation, because the symptoms overwhelm one’s ability to do much else besides focus on the disease.

I was touched by this story about Crohn’s, and hope that by posting it here someone else might find an experiment/diet that works.

Here are a few random pics from adventures so far (click them to make bigger). What’s your Summer look like?

My brother Ezra, standing in a lake in Vermont.

Naming plants is totally going to be my next job.

For my money, Moment of Truth looked suspiciously like Computer.

Self portrait. (procrastinating an edit, I believe)

Truck being eaten, San Juan Island.

Tiny crabs, San Juan Island

Windmills in the Columbia Gorge

Beehive, BZ Corner, Washington

A cat named Ned. He’s awesome. And named after my friend Ned, also awesome.

Vermont. So pretty

Hey! We have a post office box. Did I mention this already? So far, Laura and I mostly use it to place strange little objects for each other…since there’s not much mail yet. Hey, I know, you could put something in there!

This city looks familiar.

That’s all for now!

I have an event up at the Hugo House in Seattle in late November, and I want the Internet there on stage with me. It’ll play a key part in a devilish plan I’m brewing up.

I’ve talked to H.H. and it’s unlikely they can supply it. My next best bet, I believe (suggestions welcome!) is to get a 3G USB or ExpressCard for my Macbook Pro.

Do you have one I could borrow? Do you know where I could borrow or rent one?

I’d be happy to trade for something I have ( a signed book? money? a few chickens?).

If you have another suggestion, or know something about the Hugo House Theater that I don’t, I’d love to hear it.

Thanks!

Beth and Phil turned out to be The Bowerbirds – and they’ve since become one of my favorite bands, as well as the favorite band of many others, I imagine, as they’ve done quite well for themselves.

Last I’d heard they were building a log cabin – here’s Beth flexing her impressive, accordion-playing muscles:

And Yesterday they released a new album: Upper Air

Nice work!

See The Bowerbirds here: http://bowerbirds.org or check out their music on iTunes

I’ll never forget listening to him read from Shells at Powell’s on Hawthorne. Afterwards, starry-eyed, I asked if he’d consider submitting to Gumball Poetry. He was incredibly gracious and took the poem capsules I jammed into his hands. What a loss.

Here are a couple of links:

Craig Arnold’s Volcano Pilgrim blog

Find Craig Arnold

Craig’s books at Powell’s: Shells, Made Flesh

Farragoblog - a blog remembrance – there are many more of these online.

I especially love the “No! Name! Calling! Week!” — can’t we have that as a national holiday?

Also note that at Voice Level zero, students are advised not to eat fish skeletons.