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Holiday Slowdown

The Blogosphere, or the little corner of it that I regularly monitor (read: that I subscribe to in my feedreader), seems to be slowing down, probably for Thanxgiving.

I bunch of Tucson folks I know went to the Seri Coast for the week. (I just spelled that phonetically espanol-style, because I don't know how it's really spelled.) It's on the land of a Mexican Indian tribe, the Seri, on the coast of the Sea of Cortez, about 8 hours from Tucson. Apparently it's really beautiful and completely primitive - you have to bring absolutely everything with you, water and all. I maybe could have gone, and wanted to, but I couldn't justify leaving for a whole week when I really should be concentrating on finding housing and work. I'm sure they're having a wonderful, "Y Tu Mamá Tambien" style paradaisical time on the beach right now. Err, I mean, just all the positive aspects of the film.

Anyway, for the holiday itself I will probably go to the Havoc House, which is a collective house inhabited by a bunch of anarchist people I know. That should be fun.

There is an odd but persistent rumor going around Tucson that the government is going to set off a "dirty bomb" tommorrow at the air force base here and pretend like it was the work of terrorists. So some people are acting like it's really important to get out of town for the holiday, though they are probably people who were already going to leave town anyway. Whatever. It would be just my luck to get bathed in deadly high-energy neutrons right after moving to Tucson, but I don't really believe it will happen, of course, or i'd be on an train out of town by now.... I bet you a pound of uranium that there are similar rumors in just about every city. The government needs some new disaster to wag the dog and increase approval ratings. In fact, with a quick google search I see that Boston at least had a dirty bomb scare going on, though that was back in January.

I have to say, though I've never been there, I'd rather Boston go than Tucson.