It could very well be factually correct that I found myself within the 12% of people Monday night at the Sleep show who wasn’t smoking weed. It could also be factually correct that I was within the 12% of people who got a contact high, but I cannot be sure since I’ve never really experienced [...]

The film Lars and the Real Girl is one of the strongest proponents of the need for community I have seen in quite a while. For those who have yet to see it, Lars suffers from the delusion that his mail order, custom assembled, plastic doll is his girlfriend whom he’s in love with. Through [...]

I was reading ^ that book and Marcus quotes D. H. Lawrence when talking about freedom in America, and in David Lynch’s portrayal of America through the community in the show Twin Peaks.  The community in the show is located in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington as far west and north you can [...]