These days Dana is getting more and more into exploring local produce and agriculture. There are a lot of upsides to the concept, from supporting the community, to eating organic, to reducing the fuel and other infrastructure we require to support ourselves. It seems we're not alone on this, we continue to hear and read about others doing the same, a sort of groundswell of interest in urban agriculture, self-sufficiency, even guerrilla gardening.

So the Weepies have a new album. And it's good. I've been getting to know it over the last couple of days since its release, and I'm enjoying it thoroughly. There's some really nice stuff here from this pair of lovebirds.

Here's a nice way to get it (God bless Amazon.com. High quality music downloads, free of any DRM rights-usurping bullshit)

These words have been spoken quite a few times in the last day or so, now that we have discovered that our often mourned KABL radio is broadcasting an MP3 stream.

Desert Solitaire. There are precious few books that I can honestly say have changed me, that have affected me in such a fundmental way as to have tangible effects on my being, my thought processes, even years later. Conversations with God? Perhaps. Twain's Roughing It? You bet. But how different would I be today, as a person, had my father not given me that well-thumbed paperback copy of Desert Solitaire in my early teens.