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The Avocado Jungle is a source for current events, politics, arts and culture on the web. Editor In Chief David P. Kronmiller, along with a talented staff and guests, bring you news, commentary, analysis, interviews, humor, music, art and more. Our deeper mission is to seek truth in understanding, offering current events, arts and culture as paths to that understanding. We value and promote creative thought, intelligent dialogue, elevated debate, and informed action. If see something that interests you on the site, please take the time to leave a thoughtful comment. Thanks for visiting.

Jungle Writers

David P. Kronmiller, Editor-In-Chief
Notes from the Jungle
Matthew Tullman, Current Events Editor
On current events.
Joyce Chen Blogging from New York.
Tharuna Devchand Blogging from South Africa.
J Lampinen
Our resident comic strip, Congo & Steve
Joanna Lord
Blogging on life, art and spirituality.
Jeremy Olsen
Director of Development and occasional commentator.
Dan Rickabus
On things musical.
Nicky Schildkraut
On poetry.

Plus guest writers and past staff, including Zach Fehst, Amy Reynolds, Aaron Vaccaro, Jae Day, Sarah Jawaid, Scott Martin, and Bronson Picket.
August 17, 2010, at 12:03 am — Blogs | Guest Blogs / /

Thank You Aarti And Susie Fogleson for Helping Me Find My Big Girl Pants!

I don’t know Aarti Sequoia, the latest winner of The Next Food Network Star, I almost know her. Her husband, Brendan McNamara, is in our web series “and Boris”; we have two scenes together where we both revel in the extreme evilness of our characters. I am friends with people who know her, but I have never actually met Aarti. Yet watching her journey, as she struggled with her own insecurities in pursuit of a lifelong dream, as someone I almost know was instrumental in helping me find the spine and determination to continue to pursue my own dreams.

July 22, 2010, at 12:45 am — Blogs | Writers' Debate | debate / / / /

AVJ WRITERS’ DEBATE: Poverty and the Government

We post an assertion to be argued for or against, and ask all of our writers to come to the table for a good honest debate. Comments are now open to all readers. ASSERTION: Neither is it the government’s duty, nor is the government well-equipped, to make broad attempts to lift people out of poverty.

May 20, 2010, at 12:16 pm — Arts and Culture | Audio | Music | music tracks / / / /

Music: “Never” by Adjoa Skinner

The Avocado Jungle is proud to welcome our new Artist In Residence, Adjoa Skinner, and to present a track from her EP Nothin More To Say. This is “Never”.

Never by Adjoa Skinner.

May 20, 2010, at 11:33 am — Blogs / /

We welcome our new Artist In Residence, Adjoa Skinner

Adjoa Skinner, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and Summer 2010 Avocado Jungle Artist In Residence.We’d like to take a little space on the site to welcome our new Artist In Residence: singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and percussionist Adjoa Skinner.

April 9, 2010, at 11:44 pm — Blogs | and Boris / / / / /

We could have given up but we didn’t

My wife, Jennifer Emily McLean, wrote a blog entry about our show, “and Boris”: My husband and I are just coming out of production of the third season of our web series “and Boris”. I say coming out of because we still aren’t done shooting. We were supposed to be done shooting at the end [...]

March 8, 2010, at 4:16 pm — Blogs | Writers' Debate | debate / /

AVJ WRITERS’ DEBATE: Profiting off the sick and poor.

Welcome to the first AVJ Writers’ Debate! We’ll post an assertion to be argued for or against, and ask all of our writers to come to the table for a good honest debate. Comments are now open to all readers. ASSERTION: The government should help to ensure that no business profits excessively off the sick, disabled, or poor.

March 6, 2010, at 11:24 pm — Blogs

Welcome Tharuna Devchand and Dan Rickabus

I want to welcome a few new talents to our family of awesome people. Tharuna Devchand is a young lady from South Africa with quite a talent for writing and entertaining. Dan Rickabus is a musician from Michigan who we just featured on the site. We asked him to be our music blogger and he luckily said “yes.” Tharuna and Dan both love to hear opinions and share ideas, so don’t be shy.

January 21, 2010, at 4:10 pm — PSA

Help the people of Haiti! Donate to The Red Cross.

May 22, 2009, at 10:04 pm — Arts and Culture | Film | Videos | Web Series | and Boris

AND BORIS: season two trailer

Don’t miss season two of David P. Kronmiller’s exciting action adventure webseries, and Boris!

May 4, 2009, at 3:13 pm — Blogs / / /

From Scott Adams’ blog: The Power of Ridiculous Reasons

An Avocado Jungle blogshare: In his blog, Scott Adams tells us that we’re predisposed to accept ridiculous reasons. Then he suggests this could be useful in ending global conflict…