listening and making

As a kid me and my dad went camping every summer in Maine. I think he chose to go there, cos it wasn't ordinary. We'd set up tent for two weeks, and each couple of days, new travellers pitched next to us. One time two bikers, in their 50s, parked overnight. The woman had a sticker that said 'Flush Rush,'(a statement against conservative talkshow host Rush Limbaugh), and the other in full leather chaps, was a Republican.

WBEZ public radio from Chicago has a radio show called This American Life. They pick a theme, like, 'hatching a plan', and tell stories about from rooming in Iraq gone wrong, to a kid who turned his life's passion into inventing a time machine to meed his dead father. These stories are bizzare and familiar. I think that if I could pitch a tent infinately in American campgrounds, this is the collection of stories I might hear.

I recommend turning your favorite room into a craft bunker, listening to this show, and seeing what amazing projects come about.