Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Call You Don’t Want to Get

Remember my article on STD's? This is what it sounds like in real life, from Overheard in New York. The caller is described as a "guy on cell, leaning casually against a fire hydrant": Hey, so, I just got my test results back, and… uh… so I got herpes. So… maybe you should get yourselfContinue reading “The Call You Don’t Want to Get”

The Eroticism of the Sierra Nevada Salamander

Having spent much of the last month in the mountains, forgive me for putting up a few "timeless" posts, as we used to say in the newspaper biz, instead of on what happened yesterday. On my latest journey into the Southern Sierra, I took along a wonderful book called Sierra Nevada: The Naturalist's Companion. BeingContinue reading “The Eroticism of the Sierra Nevada Salamander”

A New Word for Disaster: Pyrocumulus

This century we as a culture have learned words for a lot of what might be called "new disasters" — climactic scenarios rarely if ever experienced on the planet in the past, such as Category Five, Sea Level Rise, and Arctic Amplification. Well, here's another to add to the list: Pyrocumulus. Here's what the pyrocumulusContinue reading “A New Word for Disaster: Pyrocumulus”