Dating Men and Women, Relationship Men and Women, Friends, Activity Partners

Sep 2003

West Philadelphia

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Communal House

We fervently love our support staff, made up of good friends, sweethearts, and couch-surfers.

Parties, craft nights, guest booty, cooking, veganism, communal living, the house book, cleaning, not cleaning, floor rivalries, unemployment, house meetings, cats, poetry, music, chocolate, radical politics, HALLOWEEN 2003, DJs, FUN!

whatever's on the dining room table

The Clash, Snow Fairies, the Motherfucking Clash, Paula Abdul, Flaming Lips, Postal Service, Elvis Costello, reggae, The Cocoa House Noise Lab

I am gone. Well, physically I am gone. No, that's not it exactly either. The house is still there. The people, most of them, are still alive. But "Cocoa House" has moved on, morphed into something else, sadder, lonelier sometimes, but also more powerful in a way. We've spread out, across the country but mostly across the neighborhood. We still love each other, but we don't share our lives everyday, not most of us. I guess we're more seperate, but we're making new connections, and we're keeping the old ones alive. Our support staff has in some cases become our new housemates, lovers, or dearly dearly dearly departed friends. Our home is much bigger now. We'll miss the old one but the new ones are good too.

People who will violently mourn my passing.