Yes, I'll try to keep this up while we're in Peru... but I'm not promising anything. I'm getting excited about the idea of spending 3 weeks unplugged. Troy and I will have 3 weeks together with no email, no phones, no Lindy Exchange...

Yes, I'm looking forward to that. Not that I'm not excited about SFLX, but that (like all events I produce) makes me think a lot more about what other people need and not myself.

In other news, I'm getting very worried about this recall effort, and about our insane President. And the U.S. Census Bureau report on Health Insurance is shameful for such a wealthy nation. I really don't feel like identifying as an American a lot of the time right now.

whew! life is very complicated right now. getting ready to head off to Peru, getting ready for the SF Lindy Exchange (which I'm organizing), trying to finish up some work.

so why am I blogging? because i need to get back on with this...

So Leni Riefenstahl is dead. A complicated and influential documentary maker. Helped to lock in Hitler's power through influential filmmaking while refusing to cut Jesse Owens' successes out of her work. Basically the founder of modern sports films, and the first one to use crazy camera angles and tracking the action of the games. Perhaps the ultimate "I'm just an artist" defense to all accusations that she participated in the Nazi horrors. And a brilliant filmmaker. So so complicated.

phew! finally fixed my blog issues... took a little while to clean up all the settings.

The last couple of months have been excellent. Much time with Troy, and all good. This past weekend we went whale watching and saw the largest animal on the planet: blue whales! Then we crossed the state to go hiking for 10 miles, then checked out the largest single living organism on the planet: the giant sequoia named "General Sherman." Last weekend we went out to Bodie, a ghost town which was the first place that electricity was transmitted long-distance (13 miles!). Funny story there: They ran the wires in a straight line from the river to the mill, fearing that if the wires bent, the electrons would "jump off" and the system wouldn't work. hee hee. Now it's the largest ghost town in a state of "arrested decay." Kinda cool. Also walked around on a volcano crater and checked out the weird moonscape of the tufa formations on Mono Lake.

Getting ready for Peru. Must finish lots of work and hold a lindy exchange before I can go, though.