I did it again.. I managed to put my wallet in the wash machine.. this is at least the third time.. I wouldn’t care.. but I have some pictures in there that I look at all the time.. I grabbed them before they went through the dryer and laid them out carefully to dry..
It makes me so happy and so sad to look at these pictures.. 
the pictures all came out just fine from the wash
not sure I can say the same about me..
nite folks, nite sam
-me
Today was the Stomp and Stack fundraiser at Talent Skatepark in honor of our friend Dylan Peters It was put on by our very good and dear friends Hannah and Dave. The event was to raise money for Dylan’s Memorial Fund which will all go to getting kids on skateboards and snowboards.. things Dylan really loved.
We were greeted at the door by a picture of Dylan .. just beaming.. it must have been a skate or snow board picture..
Dylan’s skate board was there.. as were some pictures and a copy of his memorial obit,. I added soem material about organ donation. Dylane was a 4 wat organ donor.. just liek Sam..
Sam was there too..
I was struck all day how strange it was for all of us to be back in this unthinkable spot..
Still.. it was a very happy and upbeat event.. there were tons of folks tere.. Phil came by with Morgan and son James. Phil had made some ‘I skate for Dylan’ stencils and made soem cool grip tape.. he even spray painted his own kid !. 
Sumner, Mica and one of their friends were there making good music to power the riders..
Hannah and Dave wire the MC’s.. I stepped in at the request of Dylan’s folks and and set a few words thanking folks for showing up t
There’s Phil now !..
there was some great riding today .. really great.. Dylan.. and Sam would have loved it !
Amir’s Gyros and Falafal cat was outside.. and totally delicious..
I left the event around 5 as things were winding down.. I called Jim and Sue to tell them how things had gone. Jim’s in California.. I wanted him to know how well the event had gone..We had a long talk.. I remember how hard it was to travel right after Sam died.. SO many people to tell the sad story to.. so many relivings.. Jim told me about ta dinner he’d had with friends Heidi and Michael the night before.. One of Heidi’s cousins had been an organ donor like Dylan.. It’s a smaller world when you’ve gone thorough loss.
I had teo more errands after I left Talent.. I had to go to work to pick up my gear for an early morning show tomorrow. . Afte rI loaede my car, I aw thisbeutifil fox.. just a few yards from my car..
THen I made a quick stop tin Jericho to see how Chris’s burning spartan was coing. He plans to torch it afte r the open studio tour.. next sunday,.. It will be spectacular.. !
The work was not wohtout its hazards.. Chris cut himself to the bone with a backsaw.
THan goodness for ducktape !
OK.. I need to sleep.. more late..
Goodnight folks, Goodnight, Sam !
-me
“it’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine…..”
Well.. the apocolypse has come and gone and we’re still hanging out.. and having quite a nice day, besides.. I guess today isn’t the day predicted in Revelations..
Speaking of Revalations, I had one today.. it’s about help… asking for help actually.. Like many folks I sometimes look at asking for help as a sign of weakness .. On the other hand, folks ask me for help all the time.. and I generally say yes without thinking… or at least without thinking enough.. that’s what always gets me in such binds with time.. Not only hat , i love helping people.. in fact.. it’s one of the things I enjoy doing most.. so why the asymmetry.. if I like helping.. why not ask for help more often.. THis whole train of thought came into my head today because I realized that over the past 2 weeks I’ve asked folks to help me out on a number of projects.. some I didn’t have time for.. some I didn’t know how to do.. Jerome’s helping me on my Echo project, Seth on an art electronics project, Tom filled in for me on a talk I didn’t think I could handle. Mike and Jim are helping me immensely at work. these days and today Scott offered to help me debug my wounded tesla coil ..
I was thinking about all of htese. and kinda beating myself up for being such poor time manager.. and getting so far over myh head that I needed to ask folks to bail m out… but then…
I as reviewing a talk I’m about to give.. it’s one of my standard ones.. called ‘ Lessons from the Colony’.. ita about the TV show adventure and the 10 lessons I really took away from that expereinse.. Lesson number 1 was ‘ask for help’
If it’s good advise to give.. I guess it’s good advise to take..
night all, night sam
-me
Well folks, this is it.. judgement day.. that’s what Harold Campion of the christian Family Radio on-air church has been saying for the last several years..
Believe it or not, I’ve been listening to Campion on and off for more than 20 years.. usually on long night drives by myself. You might wonder why an ultra liberal Jewish-agnostic would ever listen to ultra conservative christian radio.. I wonder, too , sometimes.. but somehow Campion’s strange but patient handling of the questions he gets from believers and hecklers on his radio show.. his bizzarre but consistent world view and his robotic but paternal speech have some sort of draw to me..
“.. thank you for sharing.. and may we take our next caller, please… welcome to Open Forum, what is your question ?”
I love hearing the certainty in Campion’s voice even thogh the things he says run counter to everything I believe..
Well.. Brother Campion has been predicting that tonight.. 2AM EST specifically, will begin the Day of Judgement.. All the rightious will be swept away and the time of tribulations will begin for those left behind.. then sometime in october the real end will supposedly come..
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Revelation 9:5
Campion and his followers have been driving across country in a bus caavan proclaiming the end, they’ve taken out TVand newspaper ads.. and every news channel is full of their message..
What’s it mean ? ..,.. We’ll I’m enough of an anarchist to say.. it would be so cool if they were right.. if the word had to end in fire and brimstone during your lifetime. .. wouldn’t it be cool to see ?
on the other hand . the world is full of love and beauty.. and I’m not ready to let it go…
besides.. the world has already ended for me once..
gnite all, gnite sam..
-me