• About puncture your sofa
• About The Author
• Pretensions

1. Let my friends and family outside Oregon know something about my life since I moved to the West Coast.
2. Shamelessly promote myself, my career, my creative work, and the art and writings of my friends and family.

Words and Pictures has links to works of short fiction, artwork, and photographs, most of which I'm personally responsible for. Every so often, I publish works by family members and friends. Cybertourist has links to pages describing in tedious detail my personal travels around the world.

Puncture Your Sofa was created on a grayscale PowerBook 520 (hence the lack of color) with a sluggish 14.4 kbps connection to the University of Oregon network. I drew all the images on the back of a piece of graph paper this summer in Alaska; I scanned them in at the campus computer lab using an HP Scanjet and Photoshop. I coded all the HTML by hand using BBEdit lite 3.5.

I began Puncture Your Sofa this past winter break as a timekiller, and taught myself all the HTML. Plus I learned a bunch of UNIX and some Perl in the process. I'm not an artist, or a designer, or a computer professional. I think of Puncture Your Sofa as a testament to DIY.

About the Author

Now I'm a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Oregon, in fffffunky Eugene, Oregon.

My master's research concentrates on the archaeological history of a village at Nash Harbor, on Nunivak Island, Alaska. I spent 8 weeks on Nunivak this past summer, doing the fieldwork that produced the materials I will analyze for my thesis. In the photo at left (by Chris Broyles), I'm standing on the beach at Nash Harbor, on a rare sunny day.

I must be making a living, because I'm not dead yet. I work at the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology.

If you have stumbled upon my homepage, please email me and let me know what you think of my site.

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Pretensions

Jaunts & Voyages

• Early April, 1997: Portland
• Spring Break, 1997: Seattle; North Coast: Cannon Beach, Tillamook
• Feb. 22, 1997: Heceta Head
• Feb. 15, 1997: Depoe Bay & Newport
• Early Jan., 1997: Central Coast: Florence, Heceta Head, etc.
• New Year, 1997: Portland
• Post-Christmas, 1996: San Francisco
• Thanksgiving Break, 1996: South Coast: Reedsport, Coos Bay, Bandon

Current & Recent Recreational Reading

• Eskimos and Explorers, Wendell Oswalt
• History of the World, J. M. Roberts
• Cup of Gold, John Steinbeck
• How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand
• The Music of What Happens, John Straley
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Dava Sobel
• The Surgeon's Mate, Patrick O'Brian
• The Fortune of War, by Patrick O'Brian
• Desolation Island, by Patrick O'Brian
• The Wayward Bus, by John Steinbeck
• The Flounder, by Gunter Grass

Recent Movies:

• Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival
• Carrington
• Double Life of Veronique
• To Have and Have Not
• SubUrbia
• African Queen
• Crash
• Jerry MacGuire
• Return of the Jedi
• Brazil
• Red
• Vegas Vacation
• Empire Strikes Back
• Trainspotting
• Hype!
• White
• Star Wars '97
• Drugstore Cowboy
• Blue
• Microcosmos
• Swingers
• Freeway
• Mars Attacks!
• The English Patient
• Romeo & Juliet
• Cold Fever
• Big Night
• Kansas City

Recent Music Purchases:

• Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
• Moog Cookbook (Self-titled)
• Isaac Hayes: Shaft
• The Reverend Horton Heat (Live at the Wild Duck, late Apr.)
• Shonen Knife, (live at the WOW late Apr.)
• Swingers Soundtrack
• Space: Spiders
• U2: Pop
• Iggy Pop: Nude & Rude
• Luscious Jackson: Fever In, Fever Out (Also saw them live at the WOW last Tuesday (2/12)
• Schoenberg: Pelleas & Melisande
• Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
• Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music, The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on Greensleeves, etc.
• Mahler: Symphony Nr. 4/Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
• Chris Isaak: Baja Sessions
• Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup
• Dead Can Dance: Spirit Chaser

Copyright © 1996 Paul Souders