Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Feb 8, 2012, 12:46 am

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 18, 2012, 12:38 pm
Thanks to action by a broad and bipartisan coalition of Internet users, companies, and organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has now put the brakes on SOPA, a well-intentioned but deeply flawed bill that would use Internet censorship to combat overseas copyright infringement. Even Pres...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 1, 2012, 4:43 pm

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Dec 17, 2011, 3:13 pm
New Mexico denizen Jake Phoenix (aka ThereinLies) continues his charming online "activism" with this little love note I received this morning.
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Nov 19, 2011, 9:42 pm
Anonymous • D0X: UC Davis Pepper Spraying officer, Lt. John Pike Lieutenant John Pike Records Unit Manager Phone: 530-752-3989 Cell: 530-979-0184 japikeiii@ucdavis.edu Address: 4005 Cowell Blvd, Apt 616. Davis, CA 95618-6017 Skype: japike3 File formal complaint against UC Davis police officer he...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Oct 24, 2011, 11:35 am
I believe the rebirth of class consciousness in the United States -- and across the world -- is one of the most important political events of my life. I believe that this new dawning of economic awareness will inevitably lead to empowerment of those who, heretofore, have been largely shut out of the...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Oct 17, 2011, 2:12 pm
Alrighty then!
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Oct 6, 2011, 7:23 pm
Here's the brief story of how this blog, Reality Catcher, led to my gig with Village Voice Media, first with SF Weekly, then Toke of the Town and Seattle Weekly.
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Sep 29, 2011, 12:13 pm
 Visit Seattle PI cartoonist David Horsey's site
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Sep 28, 2011, 5:56 pm
"Don't Tread On Me." Instead, tread on: the poor, the unemployed, the uninsured, the gays, the Muslims, the Hispanics, the lower/working classes, the liberals and progressives, basically, everybody but us, because we're rich and white.
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Sep 26, 2011, 3:45 am
http://www.occupywallst.org/ http://www.occupytogether.org It's time.
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Aug 27, 2011, 2:13 am
There are some very good reasons to hope the current predictions of Hurricane Irene weakening are true. One of these is the fact that a U.S. government biological weapons facility, Plum Island, is in the direct path of the storm. Note that this disquieting fact has so far escaped the...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Aug 24, 2011, 4:20 am
Photo by Tony Wells I'm convinced this is the future of medical marijuana access. I love the Washington Farmer's Market, and what a beautiful place to hold it on the day this was filmed -- Hoodsport is a gorgeous little town. The type of patient empowerment represented by farmer...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Aug 23, 2011, 1:34 am
SAM_0507 a video by finkmoney on Flickr. Thanks to finkmonkey for the footage!
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Aug 15, 2011, 3:31 am
Michele Bachmann eats a foot-long corn dog at the Iowa State Fair... her masterful technique is undeniably a thing of terrible beauty. Let's take a moment, shall we? (Photo: Tony Harnden) http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100100848/fried-food-and-retail-politics-at-the-iow...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Aug 9, 2011, 4:43 pm
The People's Republic of China had never really done anything for me until this week. But then, man oh man, did they make up for lost time! They refused to do the binding on my upcoming cannabis book, The Little Black Book of Marijuana, thus starting a tsunami of publicity that money couldn't have...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Aug 1, 2011, 12:57 am
I'll take it as a good sign that my book The Little Black Book of Marijuana: The Essential Guide to Cannabis, which prints Monday, August 1, 2011, rose 649,000 spots on Amazon's rankings overnight. (First screen shot above, taken the night of July 30; second screen shot taken the morning of July 31....
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jul 28, 2011, 7:27 pm
I'm not a check-using person. Normally, I conduct all my banking online. But since the IRS isn't into that type of thing, I was forced to cough up 40 bucks or so to buy a batch of the old-fashioned, paper kind. So, I think, "Hell. Might as well get some cool ones." Oh, about that "So many weeds, so ...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jun 20, 2011, 10:33 pm
My book, The Little Black Book of Marijuana: The Essential Guide to the World of Cannabis is coming out in August. As listed in the current catalog of Peter Pauper Press: This concise guide to cannabis provides the essentials of cultivating, using, and cooking with weed; identifying the many varieti...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - May 31, 2011, 9:01 pm
Soccermanic12990 Today 12:57 PM"Why should they care if you pursue one method of treatment -- a natural, non-toxic herb -- over harsh pharmaceuticals?", I love the articles TOT has on their front page, but its the unnecessary added opinions that make this stuff comparable to Fox news. Yes, marijuana...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - May 24, 2011, 3:59 am

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - May 11, 2011, 2:02 pm
Cannabis Freedom March 2011 Seattle This Saturday, May 14 Rally and March from Volunteer Park to Westlake Park Live music, speakers, and activism in motion. It will begin with a rally at Volunteer Park at 11 a.m., with live music until noon followed by speakers from noon unti 1 p.m. The march itsel...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Apr 13, 2011, 12:05 pm
My book, The Little Black Book of Marijuana, is scheduled to be released in August by Peter Pauper Press in New York. The book is basically the history of cannabis condensed down into 20,000 words. Yeah, I know! But when I get a chance to bring the truth to the masses, I take it -- even if the truth...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Mar 15, 2011, 8:45 pm
Lesh is More. That simple saying, popular among Grateful Dead fans who idolize bassist Phil Lesh, is true on multiple levels. Phil was never content to be "just" a rhythm-keeping bassist, preferring instead, like the rest of the band, to engage in sonic explorations that had much to do with the wond...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Feb 4, 2011, 2:14 am

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 22, 2011, 8:21 pm
George Gordon, Lord Byron, born on January 22, 1788, led a dissipated life. In his day, Romantic Poets such as himself lived like rock stars -- cutting a wide swath through polite society and robbing many women and men of their innocence along the way (but giving them some good memories in the proce...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 21, 2011, 11:37 pm
Phil Mocek in an Albuquerque courtroom this week.An Albuquerque jury handed down a not guilty verdict for my friend Phil Mocek of Seattle, who refused to show his ID to TSA officers at the Albuquerque Sunport. Phil was arrested in late 2009 after he wouldn't show his ID, and then used a camera to vi...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 20, 2011, 4:53 pm
...Wanna guess?
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 6, 2011, 6:09 pm

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 5, 2011, 7:20 am
Back in 1977 when I started smoking marijuana, one of the first "stoner" things I did was start reading High Times magazine -- which was a lot different back in the day than it is now (more of a "lifestyle" magazine then than a grow book). And one of the first great writers I discovered within tho...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 4, 2011, 11:54 am
In an embarrassing display of Bad Journalism, the Miami New Times, one of the sister Village Voice Media blogs of my paying gig, Toke of the Town, has called marijuana gardens "labs." That's right. Growing God's green plants from the earth now pretty much equals cooking up meth, boys and girls! "Oh,...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jan 4, 2011, 1:04 am

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Dec 31, 2010, 6:17 pm

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Dec 31, 2010, 2:48 am

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Dec 28, 2010, 2:44 pm

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Dec 15, 2010, 8:16 pm
However, research continues...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Dec 2, 2010, 1:01 pm
Sometimes a nice relaxing herbal bath is exactly what the doctor ordered.
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Nov 29, 2010, 5:03 pm
At 4:20 PM this Wednesday (December 1), acclaimed Grateful Dead filmmaker and Everything Must Go director Len Dell’Amico will be releasing a rare clip of Jerry Garcia in 1988 concerning the future state of our environment. Dell-Amico was nice enough to let Reality Catcher readers have an advance p...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Nov 21, 2010, 1:39 pm
Years and years ago when I was a young man, my sister gave me a 1972 book called Guitar Army by a political activist named John Sinclair, a Detroit dude I idolized who got sentenced to 10 years in prison for two joints. Sinclair, who managed the seminal rock band the MC5, also founded the far-left, ...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Nov 20, 2010, 11:11 pm

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Nov 19, 2010, 10:34 pm
Attention, Kitsap County, Washington residents: If you're tired of your tax money being wasted on a failed and senseless war on marijuana, you can do something about it. Marijuana legalization supporters Sensible Washington are organizing in the county, and they tell me that they've divided Kitsa...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Oct 27, 2010, 11:43 pm
Dude... what strain was that?
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Oct 21, 2010, 4:47 pm
Come on, all you other California fast food franchises... Support the people who support you! Light a fire on November 2. YES ON 19!
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Aug 22, 2010, 4:20 pm
Plethora of Pretty Pot Pipes Originally uploaded by alapoetHempfest 2010... yeah, it's a helluva party. Check out these pipes.
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Aug 13, 2010, 1:33 am
Writer/activist Greg JablonskiBy Greg Jablonski Kitsap County has had two high profile medical marijuana cases in the past year prosecuted by D.A. Russell Hauge. In one case, Bruce Olsen was acquitted by a jury of 12 of his peers. In September of last year, Robert Dalton was not so lucky, being fo...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jul 22, 2010, 9:45 pm
I got to spend some time with my great-nephew Bronner in Alabama. He's a chip off the old block.May was beautiful. I got to spend it in Alabama where I grew up, with my mom and sisters, and nothing is better than spending happy times with family and friends. But, as editor of Toke of the Town, Vill...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - Jun 11, 2010, 1:27 am
By Steve Elliott in Toke of the Town Photo: World of Work​Starting Thursday, June 10, Washington residents with terminal or debilitating medical conditions will have better access to getting authorized to use medical marijuana, a prominent Democratic legislator has announced. Washington's newest...
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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - May 4, 2010, 10:06 pm

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Steve E. posted an article on Reality Catcher - May 2, 2010, 9:27 pm
From: Steve Elliott Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 16:36:04 -0700 To: Joel Frey Subject: Hi Joel, it's alapoet from Twitter Hello Joel, I have, today, had the worst customer service experience of my life, thanks to Travelocity. Last December, I bought a round-trip ticket from Travelocity, and then was hosp...
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