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Anyone out there know anything cool about Niklas Luhmann? Anyone know if there are plans for a English translation of "Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft." the wikipedia article is cool but I want to hear more. Also, anyone out there in viticulture want to sell me some vines. I'm looking for Petit Verdot, Malbec, and Carmenere vines. Not like 1000 just one or two. thx

I was at Silver Lining on Wednesday and they had a Benchmade butterfly knife as one of many knives in their case. I asked the guy behing the counter if that was ever legal to carry in Oregon. They weren't in California back in the day, evenr though Butterfly knives were huge in San Jose when I was a kid. Part of the whole ninja...
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One of my all time favortie movies in ten pieces. They wouldn't let me embed it.

Trust by Hal Hartley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVVrJHcWi58 Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4xlrzDpC68 Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TakCotHf0 Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsM24xV6TQA Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCq2Zmt3ozU Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIixZGQd4JA Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xorxf4GILXM Part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXGbBhfp2X4 Part 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_C6eo2UhI Part 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HXefw6bzLE Part 10

I love that everyone sees what they want to see. There's usually a common thread that runs through it all but people still see what they want. I'm sure that at least a few billion people will notice the sunset today and their feelings will run a wide spectrum from blankness to profoundity. I love that people answer the sunset with their interpretations, meanings, feelings...
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What is more important the you that you are or the you that I see? In America the myth of rugged individualism persists. That the you that you are is more important. I say myth because the people that we celebrate as rugged individualists are just popular. The truth is that everyone likes someone that's different in just the right way and no one likes...
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Some fucked up things have been happening in southeast lately. The shooting of the store clerk at the Belmont Market. The rape at knifepoint at 30th and Stark. I'm so completely fucking angry right now. I knew Chester. I haven't talked with him much since I stopped working at It's a Beautiful Pizza, but he's a really cool guy. I wish I could find out...
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There's an episode of Magnum where at the beginning he's talking about rainbows. Actually he talks about rainbows a lot. This one he's sitting on the beach with a date telling her about how his high school science teacher explained what a rainbow is but missed the magic of what a rainbow is subjectively. Personally I see art on both sides of that coin. Magnum...
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I don't really know why art is important to me. Is it something you can go without? I feel like I see it everywhere seeping through the cracks in the foundations of ten thousand things. It's not just the art you think of when you think of art. It's the art of small things. The art of things so vast they defy our imagination. The...
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So I was in line at Portland Nursery and I overhead this conversation.

guy - What about this?
other guy - What the hell do you need a machete for?
guy - Blackberries mostly.
other guy - Seriously! No one actually needs a machete. If you actually needed a machete you would be facing a much larger problem than needing a machete. Something would be...
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My wife and son were in the bay area for the weekend. I got close to four days alone. How fucking strange it is to be without your family. I never really had a sense of family growing up. Well I had a sense of family but that was more like fear and mistrust, wildly different from what the word family has come to mean...
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