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OWS Tent City, Daniel B-Day, Subway Benches
After a morning jog and a little work on my latest video I decided to go down to Liberty park and check up on the Occupy Wall Street scene. It had been a while since I'd been down there. About a block away from the park I was swept up by an Occupy Oakland Anti- Police Brutality solidarity march. The march went past City Hall and down in front of the police station and then back to Liberty Park. It was a little scary because they had barricades in front of the station that they could have easily pinned us into similar to the mass arrest round up that took place on the Brooklyn Bridge march. Luckily everything went pretty smoothly. Aside from the massive amounts of them, the cops seemed pretty chill. I even had one officer politely request to pass in front of me as he went to cross the street and then thanked me after. I'm sad to say there were a handful of nuts, marching with the crowd, that were shouting obscenities at the cops and taunting them by waving flags and banners at them. Luckily, nothing got out of hand. But like I said, the police presence was really massive and just the site of this many cops and cop cars and scooters seemed to heighten the tension a bit. Read more »

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Me Stuff
I used some of my recent live sound engineering money to pay to get Nan's (kind of mine now) good digital camera fixed. I decided to start experimenting more with the flash. I also got a little bag for the camera because someone told me the reason the the camera broke in the first place was because it got dirt in the extending lens. This made it stop turning on all together. I also got a USB memory card reader that makes it much easier for me to upload my pictures to the Internet. It feels good to be able to experiment with photography again. I like doing something creative and not sound related. I read a quote recently that said something like "Learn one thing and do it really, really well." I think that's total bullshit. Maybe if you're making screwdrivers or something like that but I feel like as a human being that's a recipe for depression. I think you should try something different every day.
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Stop fixing tickets and cover the Occupy Wall Street Police O.T.
A recent New York Times article reports about a 3 year criminal investigation that has resulted in the the indictment of 16 NY police officers for ticket fixing. In the article Bronx DA, Robert T. Johnson, is quoted as saying "'the tickets fixed had robbed the city of $1 million to $2 million.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/nyregion/officers-unleash-anger-at-tic...

When I read the $1 to $2million dollar figure in lost revenue to the city statement it rang a bell. Just three weeks earlier NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly released a statement saying that Occupy Wall Street movement had cost the city nearly $2 million dollars in police over time. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/new-york/occupy-wall-street-costing-taxpayer... Read more »

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10-22-11
A list of things different since you’ve been away:
- I keep more stuff on the kitchen table: my watch, magazines, pens, water bottle. I also keep my jacket and the occasional shirt hanging from the backs of chairs
- The plants are not getting watered as much
- I don’t buy one of those little cartons of milk for coffee. I just use the soy milk.
- I eat less steel cut oats
- I run less
- I sleep less
- For weeks mosquitoes were torturing me at night
- I look at the Internet more and I watch more television
- I talk to the cat more. (We’ll a little more maybe.)
- I spend less money on food
- I eat less chicken
- I think less about the future
- I took one of the two broken cameras in get repaired. They told me it was going to be $100. It’s been about a week and I still haven’t decided if it’s worth it
- I started working late nights at a hip hop dance club
- It’s colder outside
- The fridge is less full
- I’ve stolen one of your pillows to prop myself up while I surf the internet in bed.
- I haven’t watched a single Netflix
- I lived for two days off of some sandwiches I found in the basement of the club. Read more »