Salt City Sinner

posted on 7/28/2013 by the Salt City Sinner peace through victory, victory through vegetables It struck me the other day that while I have   written about  my community garden – and community gardening in general – before, I haven't taken the time to explain why gardening is something I enjoy, and something you might want to try yourself. As a matter of fact gardening is a capital g capital t Good Thing, for you, for your community, and for America! Gardening is an activity with deep roots (lol) in human existence. We cultivate the soil and it cultivates us back. The act of planting and tending to vegetables, flowers, herbs, whatever strikes your fancy, teaches us important lessons about the interconnectedness of life and the natural rhythms, cycles and processes that are inextricably a part of human life as well as the life of the garden. Gardening also has outputs as well as inputs: never underestimate the appeal of a large supply of fresh, delicious, healthy pro...

posted on 7/18/2013 by the Salt City Sinner  At dawn’s crack in the hollow betwixt two hills, the hairy clusters of men bunched and steamed in the chill air. The mighty fist of loyalty had jerked them all rudely from their homefires, jerked them all the way to the root of the Short Tower. Lord Dickens Smallwood was Warden of the Short Tower, a stub of a man only as tall as he was wide, and given to agitated frothing at the slightest provocation. He dug his thighs into his mount and pulled up short before a banner bearing the sigil of his house: a wilted orchid, purple on a pale field. Ser Boner Cartwheel, Smallwood’s strong right hand, planned to take the Rear Guard into battle. “There,” he spat, veins bulging beneath his squat lavender helm as he stabbed at a map with a long, hard finger. “We shall penetrate them THERE.” “I know not,” Smallwood replied, chewing one slick, hairy lip. “Ser Hardpole, called the Cock of the Fountains, will be standing tall in that tigh...

posted on 7/9/2013 by the Salt City Sinner  It’s another beautiful summer in Salt City, which has enjoyed such robust temperatures for the last few weeks that I’m half-surprised that Temple Square’s golden angel Moroni hasn’t liquefied like a doomed Rocket Pop. After my   harrowing abduction  at the hands of our first brony President, there has been plenty to keep me busy, so my apologies for the absence – rest assured that Salt City Sinner was simply biding its time, and has not gone into remission. Plenty to keep me busy, and there’s plenty to keep you busy, too, if you feel the inexplicable urge to emerge from your (hopefully) air-conditioned shelter. Here’s a quick rundown of some of my favorite upcoming events. SALT LAKE HARM REDUCTION PROJECT MEETING, 7/10/2013  The Salt Lake Harm Reduction Project is just getting started, so if you want to get in on the ground floor, come out and meet these folks. Harm reduction is an approach to drug and al...