Reads a poem by Steve Kowit called Notice and Kurt Vonnegut's Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith, set to the music of Bill Laswell. Sends a last will and text-message, and looks at the Lenten digital abstinence of texting-free Fridays. On a truly somber topic, discusses Mark Danner's Voices from the Black Sites.
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Music: R.E.M., David Gray, Sting, Bill Laswell, Snow Patrol
Featured guests: Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Cracking Open the Head, 2012: the Return of Quetzalcoatl, and Toward 2012.
Examines the book Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age, including essays on Transition Towns, Urban Homesteading, Sumarian Economics, and Twitter Telepathy. Relates a little-know
Includes a bonus interview of Daniel Pinchbeck from the Capitola BookCafe. Also gives details on Santa Cruz County farms presented to Transition SC's Local Food Working Group by Rebecca Thistlethwaite of TLC Ranch. These include the amount of ag subsidies, decline in land used for farming, primary crops and livestock, and percentage of organic farms.