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a twenty-something queer butch feminist rides freight trains, hitch-hikes, and talks about privilege
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A reader writes: How much does it cost to travel the way you do?
That depends.That depends on what you’re willing to eat. I have a gluten allergy and being obsessed with nutrition is sort of my second secret calling in life, so I work really hard to eat super hippy food even when I’m sleeping in a vacant lot o...
Here I go again
I'm leaving North Carolina tomorrow, TOMORROW, via hitch-hiking to Tennessee. Once I'm good and in Tennessee, there's a freight train, apparently, that will take me all the way to LA. I just have to go to this train yard my friend told me about and h...
Making Injera
Thursday night I got a little drunk on Ethiopian honey wine. It doesn’t take much to get me drunk, because I never ever drink. I made Ethiopian food for my friends, which I’d never done. It all started with a little teff flour, this dark sort of ...
the INVISIBLE drum machine and the Selectric Piano
My friend Mark Dixon is a genius. For every genius you have heard about, there are a dozen geniuses hidden away in a quiet North Carolina town somewhere, and Mark Dixon is one of those.Mark Dixon built a drum machine. For years, Mark Dixon built a dr...
Asheville
I went to Asheville last weekend with Eli who’s a lawyer. She’s an anarchist, first, but wanted to do more good so she became a lawyer. Now she’s got major college loans to pay off and a job at a non-profit supporting prisoners who get assaulte...
Adventures in the Piedmont- Making Acorn Flour
So Sam and I wanted to make Acorn flour, because doing things like that makes us feel tough. It turns out, making acorn flour is hard. That’s proly why most people don’t do it. Heck, people don’t even eat the walnuts on their walnut trees, and ...
I skinned a squirrel, and I liked it
Speaking of fish, let’s talk about squirrels for a minute.-----warning-----this story is pretty gross---------------------------------I found the squirrel a block away from the house. Lying in the sun, dead.“A squirrel!” I said, leaning over my...
