Educating for anarchism #2
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, philosophy | 6 Comments »Got a call from a potential new client today, looking for a translator to work with on a regular basis. However, they do quite a bit of government work and sent me a job to quote on for a state-owned ...
Why Slovakia?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | No Comments »A lot of people have asked me how I came to live in Slovakia. Answering that casts us back to around 1997 when I read Roger Gallo's Escape from America. The book advances the Perpetual Traveler, or PT, philosophy, and provides ...
Conform or be cast out
Monday, August 11th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in art, diary | 1 Comment »Rush, "Subdivisions", 1982. Sprawling on the fringes of the city In geometric order An insulated border In between the bright lights And the far unlit unknown Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer ...
War Ensemble
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in art, diary, war | 1 Comment »Georgia. South Ossetia. Russia. Fuck. Slayer, War Ensemble. Propaganda death ensemble Burial to be Corpses rotting through the night In blood laced misery Scorched earth the policy The reason for the siege The pendulum it shaves the blade The strafing air blood raid Infiltration push reserves Encircle the front lines Supreme art of ...
The state and others respond
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, police | 5 Comments »Well, some of the responses to my letters seeking alternate means of identification have started coming back. The Slovak post sent back a form letter listing the documents they accept. Worthless, as none of the options I presented were addressed. No ...
No his mind is not for rent to any god or government
Sunday, July 20th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | No Comments »Colbert honors Rush, though not really enough. It's fantastic to see that these guys are still touring, forty years after they started. And from the abbreviated glimpse Colbert gives us, it's also obvious they haven't lost the spirit. ¡Saludos, caballeros! And the ...
Things to listen to a million times before you die
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | No Comments »"Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts, 1972. See the curtains hangin' in the window, In the evenin' on a Friday night. A little light a-shinin' through the window, Lets me know everything is alright. Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, Blowing through the jasmine in my ...
Educating for anarchism
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, philosophy | 18 Comments »I was just finishing up at the post office this morning, mailing out the letters I wrote yesterday, when I got a phone call from a client. (Matters of inconsequential fact have been changed to protect identities and my business relationships.) Client: ...
Dear Sir: Wherein I seek alternate means of identification
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, police | 10 Comments »I'm sending out some letters today... 02.07.2008 Michael Jude Gogulski Mikovíniho 15 831 02 Bratislava Oddelenie cudzineckej polície PZ Bratislava Hrobákova 44 852 42 Bratislava Dobrý deň, moje meno je Michael Jude Gogulski. Momentálne mám povolený prechodný pobyt na území Slovenskej republiky č. XXXXXXX a v priebehu niekoľkých mesiacov ...
Photos from the Liberty English Camp, Vrútky, Slovakia, June 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | 6 Comments »Photos from the 2008 Liberty English Camp in Vrútky, Slovakia, organized by INESS, the Institute of Economic and Social Studies, and The Language of Liberty Institute. Attendees came from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, and Slovenia. Instructors/organizers/facilitators came from ...
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