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Coming Out of the Closet, Part 3: The Laws of Shoe Karma DISCOVERED!

When I wrote the original post about the Compact last week, I mentioned a pair of red flip flops I had my eyes on. Learning about my friends’ movement to “get off the consumer grid” hit me where I lived: shoe shopping. I predicted that I would conduct some sort of “karma mojo” in [...]

Posted 11 April 2006 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: ,

Coming Out of the Closet: Part Two

The Tivo situation at my house is a complete catastrophe. Right now, the only way to reliably record a television program is to turn on the television within approximately one hour of when the show is scheduled to be on and set the Tivo/check that it’s set to record. If the show is scheduled to [...]

Posted 08 April 2006 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Coming Out of the Closet: Part One

My friends Sarah Pelmas and John Perry are going to be on the Today Show tomorrow morning. They’ve been flown to New York with their respective partners (Matt and Rob) and best friend Kate to discuss their nascent anti-consumerist movement called The Compact. In a nutshell, they all agreed to not buy anything new for [...]

Posted 04 April 2006 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (12) ° Also tagged: , ,