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Submitted by sky.cosby on Thu, 08/23/2007 - 2:38pm.
I consider myself to be a pirate in some contemporary sense of the word. This is the lens through which I try to view our world. I am a nice pirate, where others rape and pillage I salvage and sow; where others sack and burn I liberate and grow. I pirate software, vegetables, herbs, bulk food aisles at corporate grocery stores, garbage, books, clothes, thrift stores, free boxes. I find homes for books lost on these high seas of a culture that, for the most part, doesn't read. I steal from the rich and give to the poor whenever possible. I try to be free in the fullest sense of the word and dream always of furthering that freedom.
» I live with my twin three year old daughters on an old 250 acre farm outside of Shelton, Washington at the inner-most tip of Puget Sound. I try to live as a Green Rebel and a Pirate in this commodified world of disposable consumables. Does this mean I live a zero-sum harmonious existence with my local ecosystem, feeding wild animals by hand and growing or scavenging all my food while refusing to pay taxes and stockpiling an enormous underground arms cache of sustainably gathered weapons of creation? Well... not yet.
Submitted by sky.cosby on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 6:42am.
City of Olympia to charge parents for after-school programs???!!!
Submitted by sky.cosby on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 11:04am.
 Last Word Books will be hosting Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor and author of the book United States v. George W. Bush (Seven Stories Press), on Tuesday June 26th. De la Vega will be discussing her book, as well as a number of other issues with implications of serious illegality on the part of the Bush Administration, including the firing of federal prosecutors, admitted violations of the FISA Act, and and and...the list of iniquities only grows. Here are a few links to familiarize your selves, including a video of de la Vega's last appearance in Olympia back in February. Enjoy the links and come down and listen to her speak if you get the chance. Hope to see you here! Here is a brief summary of the book from TomDispatch.com: http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/delavega Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/08/158219 Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3356881798750932893 Here is an article she wrote for the Nation back in 2006, still relevant: The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/elizabeth_de_la_vega Truthout.org: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060407B.shtml Enjoy!
Submitted by sky.cosby on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 11:30pm.
 Man, this is fucking rad! Way to go guys! I'm crying and laughing and impressed and wishing I had a list of everything you're burning right now. Would that I could come to Kansas City to book scout. So what do we need here now to fuel the opposite flame this one merely draws attention to? The dwindling candle of reading minds in our "great" nation. Incite celebrities and athletes to write books for children and young adults which encourage youth to read? Just finished reading Ecotopia, so of course my thoughts are lofty. But I imagine a sustainable, fully-greened publishing and textbook industry supported by a network of independent bookstores paired with local online dealers. I imagine local communities taking over Barnes and Nobles and Borders locations nationwide and localizing them, staffing them, changing the tones of them to fit the precise spot they are located. I imagine a world where we remember that reading is still looking, just with a different form of thought attached, that a picture is not worth a thousand words and sometimes, the exact opposite is true. Dear Book Lovers; There are worse crimes than burning books, one is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodskey The individual who won’t read has nothing over the individual who cannot read. ~ Mark Twain
Submitted by sky.cosby on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 12:14pm.
From Last Word's Blog Holy fuckass Batman, we're up shit creek for sure! Thanks to my Pops at Earthlight Books for scrounging this one off Coast to Coast's bulletin board. So let me get this straight... el presidente can now have a little tissy fit freak out and take over all power levels of government under his sole discretion? Let's see what Webster has to say: Posted: May 23, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Submitted by sky.cosby on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 8:13pm.
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Submitted by sky.cosby on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 7:21am.
http://www.xanga.com/Pfeffy/445299279/long-time-to-write.html http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2005/06/02/Louv/index.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4665933 http://www.edutopia.org/1629 http://www.wbhm.org/News/2006/NatureDeficit.html http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/03/30/louv/ http://www.truthforce.info/?q=node/view/1175 http://www.truthforce.info/?q=node/view/2186
Submitted by sky.cosby on Thu, 04/19/2007 - 9:03am.
Here's what Robert McChesney has to say.
» Oh yeah, and Fuck Time-Warner. I'm sick of all this kow-towing to big corporate interests. This country was founded for us goddammit. Corporate Personhood and huge economical breaks just serve to let these companies know they can walk all over the independent little guys whenever they feel like it. What if we got a huge network of Independent Presses and Bookstores to refuse to stock or buy new any books published by Little, Brown & Company (A Time Warner Subsidiary)? Not to mention how much this will screw over zinesters... jesus christ, "may you live in interesting times". We sure have our work cut out for us. 
Submitted by sky.cosby on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 11:39am.
 "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."- Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007 Thanks to the big K.V. for inspiring several generations of counter-culture thinkers and doers, and for consistently making money for independent booksellers for the past 55 years. Ben from Honky-Tonk Dragon may have scooped me on this one on Last Word's Blog, but here's some more info: Obit. from the Washington Post From Wikipedia's Entry: Personal life and death He married his childhood sweetheart, Jane Marie Cox, after returning from World War II, but the couple separated in 1970. He did not divorce Cox until 1979, but from 1970 to 2000, Vonnegut lived with the woman who would later become his second wife, photographer Jill Krementz. Krementz and Vonnegut were married after the divorce from Cox was finalized. He had seven children: he shared three with his first wife, adopted his sister Alice's three children when she died of cancer, and adopted another child, Lily. Two of these children have published books, including his only biological son,
Submitted by sky.cosby on Sat, 04/07/2007 - 2:06pm.
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