Praxis (Completed Tasks)
Genuinely free, self-conscious, authentic activity as opposed to the alienated labour demanded under capitalism.
As soon as looked at this task I immediately thought of a project I did in 8th grade. We had to write a children’s story and read it to the second graders. For my story I wrote a fractured fairy tale (go, Rocky and Bullwinkle). I didn’t want to ...
WARNING: First a nostalgic and wordy intro that gives the context for the task but that impatient readers can certainly skip When I was little, maybe three or four, my brother and I used to go play at our next door neighbor's home, a second floor ap...
A Grand Adventure in the City The draw of designing and leaving fortunes across The City of San Francisco was too powerful to resist. Leslie and I found the prospect of humorous fortunes a clever manner by which to brighten someone's day. We discuss...
I rent lots and lots of movies. I get them from various places - Blockbuster Online, Blockbuster stores, Redbox, and my local library. For a month, I put a fortune in every movie I rented before I returned it. I tried to make the content of the fo...
Listen to Yellow. I don't go to a school anymore, I do correspondence. I only do one class there, and I sometimes show up for lunch. Today, before going to lunch, I made a quick stop at Carrs. There, I decided to buy someone flowers. To br...
When I picked this task, I thought it was going to be easy. And to start with, it was easy enough. I was sitting at my desk and my gaze happened to fall upon a yellow paperclip. Now, I had been saving this paperclip because it seemed so cheery. If yo...
For your listening pleasure ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This didn't involve as much adrenaline or stealth as I'm used it but a long time ago I used to teach disaster preparedness to grade schoolers, I should have already had one of these. S...
This task is my first, and I chose it, because I like to make people feel better about themselves and I saw this taks as a chance to do so. I suppose that could be called a flaw. But I don't care. As long as I don't make myself unhappy making other p...
For your listening pleasure ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thrilling. We hit two different stores to make up for the fact that neither of them were real IKEA. We don't have any of those in Alaska. So, we substituted for other IKEAs.
For quite a long time I found myself at a complete mental block on this task, unable to compose positive fortunes I could honestly believe in. It is surely no coincidence that after January 20 I began to conceive of a few honestly happy or magical wo...