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Devendra Banhart - Pumpkin Seeds (blog entry) Devendra Banhart - Pumpkin Seeds

Oh
There's a lot of love
But not the kind I need
Have you ever made soup-out-of pumpkin seeds
There's a lot of skin and flesh i never should have seen
There's too many half-ways-in-betweens

There's a lo... read more
blog entry posted Mon, May 22, 2006 - 8:51 AM permalink - 0 comments
"Sixtieth Birthday Dinner" by Michael Ryan (blog entry) If in the men's room of our favorite restaurant
while blissfully pissing riserva spumante
I punch the wall because I am so old,
I promise not to punch too carelessly.

Our friend Franco cooks all night and day
to transform blood and bones to... read more
blog entry posted Tue, April 25, 2006 - 12:34 AM permalink - 1 comment
missing rhythms (blog entry) "WHY INDIA"

by Brad Choyt, India Semester Director


What is so fascinating about India that you must visit it nine times?" the bank clerk asked. A delicate woman in her 40’s, she sat dwarfed by her large wooden desk covered with forms in tr... read more
blog entry posted Fri, April 21, 2006 - 2:27 AM permalink - 0 comments
a (compelling) spiritual note (on factory farming...) (blog entry) "It is necessary to point out that the astral bodies of animals and their nervous systems are quite well organized and therefore the capacity to feel pleasure or pain is fairly well developed. For this reason any injury inflicted on the physical b... read more
blog entry posted Fri, April 7, 2006 - 2:40 AM permalink - 0 comments
...and again (blog entry) i have returned to the holy city. leaving the velvety green landscapes, decadent Himalayans, and visible (quickened) breath of Kausani, Uttaranchal, for intensely-hot-Varanasi. it's 40 degrees. sweat is profuse, unceasingly. but i knew what i was ... read more
blog entry posted Fri, April 7, 2006 - 2:32 AM permalink - 0 comments