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Smittybilt 2883 Overland Tent https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E6RD0CC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_2dxDDbB13PW0S

We got this one, and we love it. It’s not the most compact one, but we got it for $880 on sale, which was amazing. There is an annex you can get for it, but there is so much room inside that we haven’t had issues changing. We got this one specifically because if you don’t have the rain fly on it you can see through mesh windows on the ceiling, and we love looking at the stars :)

and yet, i wouldn't bet against something turning up.

digression: with apologies to the Enlightenment ideology that informs much of the current paradigm about how we see ourselves, people are not rational. cognitive science has made huge strides in demonstrating just how idiosyncratic the human cognitive mechanism is, but rather than belabor the point i'd simply say this: people, to survive in the world, rely heavily on a group of essential stories that are adapted to whatever comes down the sensory pike. these small number of archetypal stories appear in myths, faiths, news, relationships, and science over and over again.

one of those core archetypal stories is the Flood, present in some form every human culture on earth. in it, wayward mankind has lost its virtue and strayed, incurring the righteous wrath of the godhead. a pious few are set above the fray, preserved to reseed the earth -- while the rest are destroyed for their wickedness as the world is reborn.

we in the West are most common with the tellings of our cultural heritage -- Noah's Ark, the Book of Revelations, Gotterdammerung -- but often miss how we use this familiar pattern to describe and 'make sense' of all kinds of current events.

one of those postmodern retellings is basically the common understanding of climate change.

why we use this group of archetypes likely has to do with human brain structure and how we've evolved a control mechanism to optimize survival. so it's not that we shouldn't take our archetypal retellings seriously -- they're here to help us stay alive. but it is very fair to question whether this projection of what is to come has any more basis in reality than any other crystal ball forecast.

tl;dr: much as with the Great Manure crisis, we know our environment is changing unsustainably. what will happen to us as a result of that change is utterly unknown -- all fantasies about end times and the archetypal purification of the world notwithstanding. most progress traps are not in fact traps but distorted retellings of the Flood archetype that suit the human cognitive mechanism far better than reality.

I'm reading a book of letters by Neil Cassady (famous Beat guy, On The Road's Dean Moriarty, Howl's N.C., Cody on most other Kerouac novels, spent some time with the Merry Pranksters), the letters start a few years after this he mentions renting a "lovely basement room with a nearby bathroom" for $6/week (Page 21). Later on he mentions a 3 bedroom house with a fridge and furnishings, off-site landlord, for $32.50/month (Page 144) and another house with all utilities included for $35.50/month (Page 157).

$1.50/night seems steep.

On the road and other novels also mention pretty cheap prices, but they're fiction. Neal's letters are as close to real life as can be expected from a lovable sociopath's letters.

Edit: I just realized that I gave page numbers, but no book name... I'm all kinds of smart! The book is: Collected Letters, 1944-1967 by Neal Cassady, intro by Carolyn Cassady.

from the book of photos by John Drysdale Our Peacable Kingdom

"John Drysdale grew up in East Africa acquiring an early interest in both photography and animals. He trained at Guildford School of Art in England in the early 1950s and worked as an assitant to Cecil Beaton taking the official photos of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. He has since worked in photo-reportage, advertising and industrial photography and won numerous awards. But perhaps his most memorable work has been in the field of humour, working with children and animals in real life situations which give a new slant on the world." -Science & Society Picture Library

There's an author, Jennifer Senior, who wrote All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood. She believes it was 'round about the time when child labor laws went in to effect where children really went from being something with specific, quantifiable economic value to the family, to being something which we vaguely describe as "invaluable" or "irreplaceable". But that change is a recent one and one she argues our society still hasn't completely adapted to, in large part because of all the other changes in society and family structure during that time.

The book focuses largely on US culture and society. I have to sheepishly admit I didn't finish it. But what I read was interesting (though somewhat female-centric), and I wish I had finished it before I returned it to the library.

This is a thorough book on the subject. Kind of a slog - much easier listening to the Audible version than reading the Kindle version. Worth the work, though.

I was listening to Fresh Air a couple of days ago, just in passing, and TG was interviewing a man who has written a book covering US housing policies that led to segregation in the cities and suburbs.

Have you ever read "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls? It's a great children's book about a little boy's summer in the Ozark Mountains (not far from Arkansas). Such a great read about being a kid in another time and place.

Absolutely!

For TR, I highly recommended Edmund Morris’ Three Volume bio . The first volume, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, won a Pulitzer and is one of my all-time favorite books.

For a general social and political history of the times, check out “The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

There have been a couple of bios on Alice, but the two best that I have read were Alice by Stacey A. Cordery and Hissing Cousins
which chronicles and parallels her life and rivalry with her First Cousin, Eleanor.

For FDR, my favorite single volume bio is Traitor To His Class by HW Brands. It’s been criticized in certain Right Wing circles as “too biased”, but screw those assholes.

For a generalized overview of the Roosevelt family, check out Ken Burns’ doc, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. It’s on Netflix.

That’s just scratching the surface, but I have found that to be the most accessible and readable stuff.

> Here dy'd their Parents' hopes and feares

> Once all their joy, now all their teares.

Wow. See, if the epitaph had been trite or overly-euphemistic in order to preserve the reader's comfort, a link would be broken here. I'm glad the author didn't do it. History like this connects us to our basic humanity and thus back to each other, I think.

Or even beyond humanity. Richard Dawkins pauses to eulogize an Australopithecus child and its mother (they were early homonids) in one of his books. The child was eaten by an eagle:

> “Poor little Taung Child, shrieking on the wind as you were borne aloft by the aquiline fury, you would have found no comfort in your destined fame, two and a half million years on, as the type specimen of Australopithecus africanus. Poor Taung mother, weeping in the Pliocene.”

You's enjoy this book about an American who grew up in Iran and went back to look for childhood friends
https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Hassan-Journey-Heart-Iran/dp/1400032237/

nothing says "swank" like a lute!

If these sorts of things interest you there are fun books: http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Fashions-Pictured-Catalogs-Costumes/dp/0486269183

For anyone curious, this book is an excellent overview of this time period.

JOGAL Men's Mesh Fishnet Fitted Sleeveless Muscle Top Small WG01 White https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D7SRYKT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_na8hDbN5BYSRR

Had to look it up myself cuz I was curious lol

hi! this is my step mom. if you guys like this i suggest buying Craig Snyder's "A Secret History of the Ollie" its jam packed with old school pictures (including this one and many of my dad)


and here's an album with some cool 70s skateboarding pics of my dad

> recommendation for literature about the early days of car travel?

Well, having just heard about this woman, might want to look into these books about her adventure? ...

https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Ramseys-Grand-Adventure-Brown/dp/0618073167

Article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alice-ramseys-historic-cross-country-drive-29114570/

a fantastic movie: Rabbit-Proof Fence, based on this book written by Doris Pilkington Garimara. You'll learn a lot very quickly by reading This article.

https://www.amazon.com/JOGAL-Fishnet-Fitted-Muscle-X-Small/dp/B07D7SRYKT/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?keywords=mens%2Bmesh%2Bshirt&qid=1562361796&s=gateway&sprefix=Mens%2Bmes&sr=8-12&th=1&psc=1