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Carfree Portland

I am in Portland at the “Towards Carfree Cities” Conference, running from Monday to Thursday this week. I took advantage of this to also arrange the northwest leg of my Nowtopia tour, and so on Monday night I appeared at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne. My trip-mate Russell Howze is also promoting his new book, “Stencil […]

U-gene Oh-ay-sis

Came to Eugene and had a lovely visit. It felt a bit weird for different reasons, hard to pin down. Obviously the town is home to Zerzan and the Green Anarchy crowd, and their bizarre enthusiasm for apocalyptic catastrophe as a “political critique” of modern capitalism. But we didn’t meet any of those folks, who […]

A Bit of Nowtopia at Home

On my way north now, heading to Eugene, Portland and beyond during the next three weeks. Unfortunately, Russell H. and I are ensconced in a hotel in Yreka because the car we’re borrowing broke down. Hopefully it’ll be a minor repair and we can make it to Eugene in time for a bookstore appearance scheduled […]