Sunday Papers: Chris Wilson

"To the extent that any community shapes its mythic life to please tourists and wealthy newcomers, it will begin to lose sight of it own needs and lack the intellectual, political and spiritual will to address its pressing social, economic, and environmental problems. [...] Much of Santa Fe's substantial artistic and intellectual creativity is absorbed in romantic escapism."

--The Myth of Santa Fe


On the turntable: English Beat, "Wha'ppen?"

Sunday Papers: Native American Proverb

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."


On the turntable: Joy Division, " Substance"

Sunday Papers: Hunter S. Thompson

"Politics Is The Art of Controlling Your Environment."


On the turntable: Steely Dan, "Katy Lied"

Sunday Papers: Hodding Carter

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots -- and wings.”


On the turntable: Dave Matthews, "Listener Supported"

Sunday Papers: Peggy Pond Church

"The first physicists were themselves poets, sensitive men, as dedicated in their way as the men are in their kiva. But the trouble was, they were not free men; they were controlled by the statesmen, the military. And the statesmen were seeking mastery, knowledge without love."

On the turntable: Jethro Tull, "Live: Bursting Out!"
On the nighttable: Marc Simmons, "Witchcraft in the Southwest"

Sunday Papers: Quanah Parker

"The white man goes into his church and talks about Jesus, but the Indian goes into his tipi and talks to Jesus."


On the turntable: Visage, "Fade to Gray"

Sunday Papers (Weekday edition)

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."

--Oscar Wilde's last words


On the turntable: Velvet Underground, "1969"

Sunday Papers: Reg Saner

"Mountains are time we can see."
--'The Dawn Collector'


On the turntable: Ditry Dozen Brass Band, "Medicated Magic"
On the nighttable: Douglas Preston, "Cities of Gold"

Sunday Papers: Oliver La Farge

"A child's world is a strange one. It is full of conflicts and incongruities that would terrify an adult, and the child accepts them calmly, with extraordinary elasticity of mind."

On the turntable: Om, "Variations on a Theme"

Sunday Papers: H.G. Wells

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."


On the turntable: DJ Shadow, "Endtroducing..."

Sunday Papers: Buddha

"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

On the turntable: Jimi Hendrix, "East Coast NYC Boy"

Sunday Papers: Kurt Vonnegut

"A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."


On the turntable: Bill Monroe, "Blue Moon of Kentucky"

Sunday Papers: Benjamin Franklin

“He who would trade freedom for security deserves neither”"


On the turntable: Hank Williams III, "Live at Ground Zero"

Sunday Papers: John Steinbeck

"We do not take a trip; a trip takes us."


On the turntable: Wynton Marsalis, "Standards"

Sunday Papers Tenth Anniversary Edition

I mourn those who lost their lives that day. And I mourn those who were killed in their memory.

America, I hope you get over your national nervous breakdown soon. Ten years of violence and suspicion just weren't worth it.

Perhaps if we didn't cling so tightly to our identity as Americans. Seems to me that we are 'people' first...

Sunday Papers: Colin Fletcher

"As we look around the world today, it seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that many of our current problems stem from the application of engineering overlays to biological systems."


On the turntable: Pink Floyd, "The Wall"
On the nighttable: Jack Loeffler, "Adventures with Ed"

Sunday Papers: Dalai Lama

“Man[...] sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."

On the turntable: The Silos, "Cuba"

Sunday Papers: Chuang Tsu

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."


On the turntable: Brand X, "Unorthodox Behaviour"

Sunday Papers: Edward Abbey

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."


On the turntable: James Brown: "Star Time"

Sunday Papers: John Muir

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."


On the turntable: Elvis Presley, "Elvis"
On the nighttable: Rudolfo Anaya, "Alburquerque"