Comments on: The True Meaning of Halloween

By: Carnival Culture 06: Peace-Keepers - [tmbchr]â„¢

Carnival Culture 06: Peace-Keepers - [tmbchr]â„¢ — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:26:24 +0000

[...] Any sovereign who has the ability to create abundance for himself has the ability to share the extras with others at no real cost to himself {see: Harvest Culture}. Any Prince who can provide for others quickly draws a pack of loyal followers into his orbit, whether he likes it or not. Clint Eastwood’s The Outlaw Josey Wales is a great narrative exploration of this theme. In it, Clint Eastwood’s character is a lone wolf whose family-pack is slaughtered in the Civil War. He enacts revenge against his enemies, and veers off into the frontier to start over again. Along the way, a rag-tag band of allies forms around him, creating a new pack, putting him unwittingly into a leadership role. [...]

By: dan

dan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:18:44 +0000

Oh also there was this huge golden eagle once when I was a kid in this cage at a zoo on Long Island. I should go try to find it.

You lived in a cage at a zoo when you were a kid??? ;0

I have to click “add + value” now but I know I’m not really…

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:30:52 +0000

As the crow flies…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_the_birds
http://www.innerlight.org.uk/journals/Vol24No4/langbird.htm

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:59:53 +0000

http://www.birdnature.com/flyways.html

Chicago streets are set out on a grid pattern but there are some major streets that are slanted. They are based on the old Indian trails which are based on the migratory routes of birds. There is an underwater ridge in Lake Michigan a little bit off shore that was above water during the Ice Age. 10,000 years later the birds still fly over that spot looking for a place to rest.

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:51:18 +0000

I get what you’re saying Ted. When I read your comment I knew you were right but I wouldn’t have figured it out myself.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:10:03 +0000

Oh also there was this huge golden eagle once when I was a kid in this cage at a zoo on Long Island. I should go try to find it.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:09:21 +0000

I saw some really big raptor out the window of my friend’s house this morning. Never seen ANYTHING like that over Baltimore in five years living here before.

Two other people have said something about birds to me.

By: Ted Heistman

Ted Heistman — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:48:00 +0000

Tim, speaking of birds…A while ago I saw your new picture and your intense gaze, and I thought of a bird. You look like some kind of bird. I was thinking you must have a totem of a bird or somthing. Do you think that as well? I was just looking in your tumblr links and it looked like you were thinking that maybe.

I think its true. You are a bird person.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:07:10 +0000

Your bird needs some feet now, Tim.

It looked like a worm was eating the logo while the bird was watching. I guess he was waiting for it to get fat enough so he wouldn’t have to hobble over to eat it.

By: Ted Heistman

Ted Heistman — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:43:38 +0000

Your bird needs some feet now, Tim.

By: Exploding Aardvark » HALLOWEEN: TWO VIEWS

Exploding Aardvark » HALLOWEEN: TWO VIEWS — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:52:28 +0000

[...] Tim Boucher: It made me realize what Halloween is all about: sharing value amongst your community. When you have extra, you give it away to others. In Harvest Culture, this is directly obvious: food you donâ€™t eat or game you donâ€™t freeze goes bad. Better to give it away than to waste it. As people have become more and more dependent on chemically-preserved factory foods, this idea of giving away extra so as to prevent waste is in danger of vanishing. Never mind that people have been taught by corporations to throw shit away like its going out of style (or more accurately, as things go out of style they get thrown away). But it is the giving away of extra which is the foundation of community: everyone pitches in a little bit towards the commonwealth, and then makes mutual agreements about how those resources are to be allocated. [...]