Introducing Persephone Days, a new recurring column covering all things permaculture High spring in New England: aside from the pollen that’s already grinding my sinuses, this time of year is undeniably glorious. Just in time for Easter, we begin to see glimpses of the purest magicians of the plant world; the complete resurrectors; the mysteries…Read More
Articles from April 2019
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GoT Recap: What the Hell Was That
Monadnock Underground Staff and Friends React to Season 8, Episode 3 LIVE Chris: WHO IS READY FOR SOME ACTION? Given that I’m expecting beginning to ending battle, this will likely be a different sort of live chat hahahahaha Jesse: 🌑 Teka: OK everyone is going to die! Chris: The bells will be tolling, mourning will…Read More
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Dreamscapes: Last Train to Russia
A tale of survival in the face of great and powerful evil I am attending a party in a small two-story house. Guests are lounging inside and also lying on the roof. Without warning, malevolent creatures arrive and begin to kill people. We realize with horror that they have no weapons — they are killing…Read More
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I Never Take My Own Advice (Dispatches from the Underground)
I reviewed my April predictions to see they were all true and I didn’t listen to any of them Strange fact: once I write something, especially if I complete it and publish it somewhere, I can never remember what I said in it. I have no idea why this is, but it’s always been the…Read More
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The Last Teen Movie
Why 10 Things I Hate About You is the defining film for a (micro)generation We don’t talk nearly enough about 1999. The last year of the twentieth century is now twenty years ago. Kids today must think of the nineties the way I thought about the seventies when I was a kid — as a…Read More
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Calamari in the Orange Grove
On escaping the last days of winter in the Sunshine State, with Italians — and finding purpose in life. April 1, 2019Somewhere on a side road in Central Florida It had been raining in Florida. The glades were full, overflowing, green and flowering. It was a hot day for the beginning of April, pushing into…Read More
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Game of Thrones Recap: Reckonings Upon Reckonings
Monadnock Underground Staff and Friends React to Season 8, Episode 2 LIVE Alternate title: It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel like working out longstanding conflicts Note that obviously there are spoilers ahead if you can figure out what we are talking about. Chris: This new opening is wild…Read More
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Dreamscapes: Chegging from the Ground Up
The perils of fighting for the Resistance from up in the air — while in a protective (but loving) relationship Evil people (who may or may not be connected to the government) are spraying toxic chemicals in the air that hurt anyone who comes in contact with them. The antidote to it has been recently…Read More
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When Everything Ends and Nothing is Gone
Reflections on a drug statue and the real nature of time We were there to get high, not to study history, which is probably why there was so much I never knew, seventeen years ago, about the eccentric and charming stone obelisk. I definitely never knew it was called the Good Samaritan. I probably would…Read More
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Dispatches from the Underground: Holy Week Edition
Budding cataclysm, the St. Matthew Passion, sacrificial rabbits, and the clean slate of lost data It’s all happening… Idon’t know about you, but I sense a LOT happening out there. Large changes, piles of endings and beginnings. Most of it so far has taken on a neutral, maybe even cautiously optimistic, character, but it’s dramatic…Read More