Fiction

Letters from Russia - Philosophical discourse on war and love written as letters from a cobbler with Napoleon's army in Russia, to his fiance in Paris (.pdf) 2004

Uncle Weed's Redrock Adventure - a 1987-8 illustrated book in which Uncle Weed goes camping and introduces a couple of young 'uns to natural desert grandeur, eco-sabotage and civil disobedience (.pdf) 1988.

Cheese, Corn and Debauchery - rather sudden short fiction, 1990-92 (.pdf).
Flashback from a Janitor's Daze
Destined like a Great Idea
About Being Stabbed in the Forehead
Satan lives in Moab
Right (as in Correctly), plus a Re-mixed version
I Remember Florida

Angst-boy - essays, stories, accounts and critical discourse, 1986 -1989 (.pdf)
What I thought in Sweetgrass
So the Legends Go
Eight o'clock A.M. in some tacky, classy hotel
Why the Walrus

Shoebox - a compilation of many of these stories in one convenient chunk (.pdf)

Verse

Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe - occasional haiku from Olympia and Japan. (.pdf) 1993 - 2004

4 Haibun for You  - haiku followed by prose closed with another haiku (.pdf) 2004

Equilibrium - free verse and  prose from my wander in Europe 1992 - in process, see Mountain Highway for updates

Essays

Hemp Culture in Japan - a 1992-7 ground-breaking treatise on the history and cultural significance of hemp in Japan.  Hemp Culture in Japan is available in .html or .pdf.  For alternate versions, visit Taima.org, a site dedicated to Hemp in Japan. Published in Cannabis Culture magazine (#13 & Best of ...), the Journal of International Hemp Association (V.4 N.1) as well as excerpted in several books including Hemp Horizons and "Hanp" from Norway.

Practical Guide to Cannabis (.pdf) - a 1999-2000 handbook developed by HempLobby.org for policymakers compiled and partially written by DaveO. Includes recent bills, crop guides and history of hemp. Dave White designed it, Ed Saukooja underwrote it.

Leveling the Playing Field - drafts from a a column for Olympia's now-defunct Menu arts & entertainment newsazine, ca. 2000-01 (.pdf)
Internet Business and Mayhem
The Real Lowdown on MP3 Downloads
Activism on the Internet
Hockey and the Internet
Free the Internet - Open access

Should U.S. military evaders be extradited? - Yes & No arguments (.pdf) 08/04

Privacy Issues in Workplace Drug Testing (.pdf) & Drug Testing issues chart (.doc)

Drug Court - Observations on Restorative and Rehabilitive Justice from the Thurston County Drug Court program

Damn the Dam - a 1987 research paper concerned with water usage and public policy in the Utah deserts with plenty of unabashed personal bias - dedicated to Edward Abbey (.pdf).

Academic

The Evergreen Collection - being various essays and discourse from programs at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 1996-2004...

"Poets and Philosophers Discuss Love and War" Summer 2004
Letters from Russia - Philosophical discourse on war and love written as letters from a cobbler with Napoleon's army in Russia, to his fiance in Paris. (.pdf)

"Political Problems and Controversies" Summer 2004
Should U.S. military evaders be extradited?
Yes & No arguments (.pdf)
Critical Comments on political connundrums

"Privay, Freedom and Security" Spring 2004
Report on Privacy Issues in Workplace Drug Testing (.pdf)
& Drug Testing issues chart (.doc)
+ Annotations on ...
Amitai Etzioni's Limits of Privacy
Supreme Court opinions on Roe v. Wade
Patricia Boling's Privacy and the Politics of Intimate Life
Jean Jacques Rousseau's The Confessions
The Right to Privacy (both Kennedy/Alderman & Warren/Brandeis)

"Visions Of Justice" Winter 2004
Drug Court Report - Observations on Restorative and Rehabilitive Justice from the Thurston County Drug Court program
Annotations on ...
Aeschylus' "The Oresteia" Part One and Part Two
Criminal Justice In America (essays) Chapter One
Julie Salaman's "Facing the Wind" Part One and Part Two
Robert C. Solomon's "A Passion for Justice" & "What is Justice? (essays)" Notes on the Death Penalty
+ Notes ...
Agamemnon character biography
Agamemnon performance impressions
Narrative self-evaluation

"Government and Economy" Fall 2003
Annotations on ...
William Greider's "Secrets of the Temple" (about the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank)
Hernando De Soto's "The Mystery of Capital"
Jane Jacobs' "Systems of Survival"
+ "Dear Congressperson" letters on ...
Internet taxation (failed Federal bill)
Unsolicited E-mail (aka SPAM)
City of Oly's fiber optic project
Monopolistic telco practices
DSL pricing tariff changes
Tommy Chong and 'Operation Headhunter'
Cuba travel embargo

"Haiku & Haibun" Fall 2003
Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe - occasional haiku (.pdf)

"Management Strategies for a Global Society" Fall 2002 ~ Winter 03
Lawyers, Guns and Money - a play (with regards to Warren Zevon RIP)
"We'll take the one with the sticker" - a play about consumers and labor practices
United Nations & Multi-nationals - group essay
Backpacks and Brushstrokes - a free-form autobiography
Vaclav Havel "Playwright, Dissident, President" Report - Presentation - Summary
Commentary on ...
Fallaci's "The Rage and the Pride"
Friedman's "Lexus and Olive Tree"
Machiavelli's "The Prince" and Badarocco's "Leading Quietly"
LaFeber's "Jordan and the New Global Capitalism"

University of Utah collection - various essays and projects from coursework 1989 - 1991 (see also short fiction from same era below)

Urban Legends with Jan Brunvand
Urban Legend Guy project overview
Morman Missionay urban legends
'The toothbrush thief' legend

Ballads & Folksongs with Jan Brunvand
Skillet Lickers - old-timely folksingers
Larry Gorman, the man who makes the songs

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