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Thursday, March 15, 2012 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

Oh Baby, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 10, 2012
Oh Baby, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 10, 2012

Oh baby indeed

Had the good fortune to attend an impromptu stargazing event at the park's observatory last night hosted by the resident enthusiast. Had the misfortune to have it attended by a party with a hacking cough who shared the eyepiece with us all.

Sniff

This dummy had to participate didn't he?

Sniff

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch

Today I moved back to LoWs for a week of boondocking to pick up my mail (including a certain eagerly-awaited, hot-off-the-presses, brand new ,whizzbang, tech gadget I had shipped here :-) and to regroup for the next adventure, wherever that takes me.

Night camp

Boondocked - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

A Theory of the State

States have a peculiar dual character. They are at the same time forms of institutionalized raiding or extortion, and utopian projects. The first certainly reflects the way states are actually experienced, by any communities that retain some degree of autonomy; the second however is how they tend to appear in the written record.

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber, pg 65

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