Pensaments of an Anthropological Patzer

Archive for 7 July 2005

First Publication: LiP Magazine

Thursday, 7 July 2005, 14:06

Well… First publication since my high school graduation speech. The current issue of LiP Magazine has an interview I conducted with Michael Muhammad Knight — American Muslim/agnostic iconoclast, author of The Taqwacores, and frequent contributor to Muslim WakeUp! It ain’t brilliant stuff (my fault, not Mike’s), and there are rumours that I might be dating [...]

Running Away (or, the Gentrification of Jamestown and Dharamsala)

Thursday, 7 July 2005, 07:53

I spent this past weekend with Erin and a bunch of radical twenty-somethings up in Anderson Valley — one of the NorCal enclaves where the hippies settled in the diaspora following the Summer of Love. Erin’s former housemate Jade grew up in the woods on a forty-acre plot that her dad purchased back in the [...]