I just thought the Purple House community would like this little text I found on the Mike Gravel website:

The Stalking Horse
February 20th, 2008 by georgann
Clinton Will Use Ron Paul Delegate Strategy To Clinch Nomination
Just as Ron Paul will harness confusion at the Republican National Convention to convert supposedly “pledged” delegates to his uplifting cause, Hillary Clinton will do the same on the Democratic side. A senior Clinton adviser told Politico’s Roger Simon, the guy who looks a bit like Henry Waxman except without the insane nose, that if forced the Clinton campaign would pursue the votes of pledged delegates—those assigned based on the results of primaries and caucuses.
“This time, one candidate may enter the convention leading by just a few pledged delegates, and those delegates may find themselves being promised the sun, moon and stars to switch sides,” Simon writes today.
The great unmentioned stalking horse in this whole debate is Mike Gravel, who will in the end persuade every delgate pledged to Clinton or Obama to come to his side, leading to an apocalyptic Gravel versus Paul ‘08 election throwdown in which no one wins … except America.

-Ben

pumping iron

Yesterday we pumped iron. We were like a house of Arnold Schwartzeneggers (sp). It was very good exercise for our arms. We will have stronger arms now than we did before.

-Ben

write (for) me

Dear friends,

I am helping to start an arts/culture magazine with Sean Higgins. We are in the process of looking for writers. Below is a preliminary list of topics/themes that we'd like to get writers for.

Reviews
-books
-music
-film
-art
-zines/websites
Interviews
Celebrity letters (we already have some)
Etymologies/Biographies of words
Histories of Names of (Athletic Team, Band, Art Movement etc.)
Community Spaces/House Venue Profiles
Label/Publisher Profiles/Histories
Debates between intellectuals on a topic chosen by the staff
human body/techno-science interfaces- programming the human
obscure musical instruments
novelty food

Also, today we had pizza. It was so good. Thank you Kristin for pizza. And for ice cream

Also also, it is warming up. I can see part of the ground in the back yard. Spring is amazing. Come hang out. I want to go on walks and roast marshmallows in the back yard. Well, walks far beyond the backyard.

-Ben

when all else fails, hit every red button you can find

today i had a lesson in handy-work. so we bought a half tank of oil this morning and were relieved because we thought we beat the 'EMTY' ticker on the furnace. but when we all went to take showers, the water came out icy like the air in our house. i thought it maybe took a little while before the oil kicked in and earnestly went back to the shower every hour or so until ben got home to see if some of that heavenly warm water would trickle out. when he got home we put two and two together and decided we had to relight the furnace. shit. we make a few phone calls, rally up previous champion furnace starters, consult the internet gods and go downstairs like mario and luigi, minus the plumping. i want to be mario. anyway, we let oil leak all over our hands, find some red buttons to push on and around the box with warning signs printed very neatly with tiny letters in the shadows of the machine. turn on the furnace 20 times, unscrew and rescrew the 'bleeder', meet up with the landlady who calls her friend who confirms that what we've been doing for twenty minutes is the right thing to do....then after i washed the first layer of oil off my hands for the 4th time i figured diane needed to buy a new furnace because ours was broken. no ticker, splatter, fire, or boost of anything was coming from the stagnant pipelined machine. then ben calls the oil company and they tell us to turn on the emergency switch.

i'm sure you can guess that i'm writing this in a warm room. anyway, i learned something today about that old furnace and definitely confirmed the purple house network. nice to know that even after you leave, you're not totally gone. except for the summer people....fuck them. just joking. i need to get back to work. i hope i graduate. jesslyn, come home.

-kristin