Seriously. Being a big fan of dialogue — on stage, on screen, and in life — I track a couple of dialogue-tracking sites, but they've been eclipsed as of late by super-popular Texts from Last Night Example: driving around with you guys listening to the beach boys made me very concious of how white youContinue reading “Are texts the new quips?”
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The world and we are green: Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac debate love
From a fascinating exchange of letters between Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac: . “Realize, Allen, that if all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the worldContinue reading “The world and we are green: Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac debate love”
2010: Worst year ever for movies?
So wonders the ever-entertaining Joe Queenan, in the Wall Street Journal: Where once there was "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," there is now "Robin Hood," prince of duds. Where once we could look forward to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Last of the Mohicans," we can now look forward to "Dinner for Schmucks" and "TheContinue reading “2010: Worst year ever for movies?”
Why would you want to leave coastal California?
That's what Monarch butterflies in SoCal are thinking. Makes one wonder how hard-wired some of these so-called "instincts" really are. Here's a picture of garden designer David Snow petting a Monarch caterpillar. A fun story for me to cover…off again now to the Sierras, this time to the Thousand-Island Lake area. Back a week fromContinue reading “Why would you want to leave coastal California?”
La Nina expected back this year
As is often the case, after El Nino. But this McClatchey/Fresno Bee piece is an unusually good one, complete with a charticle designed for web postings. La Niña tends to influence wetter winters around the Canadian border, but drier conditions along the Mexican border. So Southern California — Los Angeles and San Diego — consistentlyContinue reading “La Nina expected back this year”
Ignoring a mortal threat: Appeasing climate change
A couple of weeks ago Tom Toles, in his witty but sharp way, brought up a powerful argument in the climate opinion wars. To ignore climate change, a mortal threat to our way of life, he said is comparable to appeasing Hitler in the late 1930's. Toles wrote: let me be the first to haulContinue reading “Ignoring a mortal threat: Appeasing climate change”
Chart of the Week: The fall of Night
Has any director in the history of the movies fallen so far, so fast? Via Marginal Revolution. If any discussion is necessary, the comments are excellent. M. Night Shyamalan must rue the day that sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic began quantifying their reviews. Though that process is not beyond criticism. Rotten Tomatoes continues toContinue reading “Chart of the Week: The fall of Night”
Tracking 2010: in the race for the hottest year ever
The famous columnist George Will drives even his fellow editorial writers a little nuts with his condescending dismissal of global warming. As the LA Times wrote in an editorial yesterday: You probably won't hear it from columnist George F. Will, Fox News commentators or the plethora of conservative blogs that have claimed global warming essentiallyContinue reading “Tracking 2010: in the race for the hottest year ever”
Obama accepts inaction on climate as bill dies in Senate
Tim Dickinson blames Obama for what became official today: the comprehensive energy/climate bill is dead. David Roberts blames Republicans and centrist Democrats, and sees no silver lining. Yet at the same time, as numerous publications have pointed out, the coal industry has lost its mojo, in part because of campaigns such as the Sierra Club'sContinue reading “Obama accepts inaction on climate as bill dies in Senate”
Scientist challenges denier: denier threatens suit
In a column this past week, George Monbiot pointed to a meticulously detailed take-down of the English Vicount Monckton's scattered attack on climate change science by an American professor specializing in heat transfer named John Abraham. Abraham went through a presentation by Monckton and surgically took it apart, point by point. It's a devastatingly convincingContinue reading “Scientist challenges denier: denier threatens suit”
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