"There are two kinds of Malibu. There is the beach Malibu. And there is the rocks and cactus and coyote-ate-the-cat kind of Malibu." –Malibu mayor Jeff Jennings Guess which one burned? Picture from firefighter Nancy Jackson’s Flickr set:
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
The Weather Outside, the Climate Inside
W. S. Di Piero, a favorite poet, published in Poetry (10/06) a wonderful selection of his notebooks, written during a moody stay in San Francisco. It’s not available on-line, unfortunately, but a key segment deserves recapitulation here nonetheless. What I wish to bring to your attention is his discussion of how our inner weather determinesContinue reading “The Weather Outside, the Climate Inside”
Department of a Thousand Words
While visiting the great Edward Weston at the Getty, saw another astonishing photo exhibit by the daringly amoral photographer Luc Delahaye. As this fascinating story in Artnet about a gallery show four years ago reveals, he worked as a war photographer in Bosnia, but after a few years there had to give up the traditionalContinue reading “Department of a Thousand Words”
The End of the World, According to John Howard
John Howard lost not only his position as prime minister of Australia last week, but even his long-held seat in parliament — a defeat widely described as "humiliating." His support for the war in Iraq and against action to reduce the risks of climate change had a lot to do with that humiliation. For thoseContinue reading “The End of the World, According to John Howard”
A Strong Relationship — With Yourself
That’s what Texas photographer Kelli Connell depicts in a compelling series of photographs, some of which can be found in an interesting exhibit at the Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai. As I mention in the story for the Ventura County Reporter: One of the most striking displays in Larramendy’s small but appealing gallery is aContinue reading “A Strong Relationship — With Yourself”
A Global Warming Trilogy
Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson explains in an essay available for forty-nine cents on Amazon how he came to write a science fiction trilogy about global warming: Somehow my job has made me think about climate change for years now. I spent most of the 1990s writing a trilogy about the human inhabitation of Mars; myContinue reading “A Global Warming Trilogy”
Isn’t This How The SoCal Fires Started Last Time?
From rcribbett’s photostream, the fire yesterday in Malibu, as seen from about 10-15 miles south in Playa Del Ray:
Turkey Mutterings
Visited the world famous La Brea tar pits of LA today (which are still bubbling methane quite merrily) and learned that indeed California did once have an indigenous turkey, but that it has gone extinct. After WWII the more familiar wild turkey from the East was introduced in various parts of the state, and naturalizedContinue reading “Turkey Mutterings”
Good News for the Planet: Bush Alley Loses in Australia
The best coverage I’ve seen on the humiliating defeat of right-wing Australian PM John Howard comes from the Wall Street Journal, which forthrightly highlights the global warming side of the picture: Unlike his rival [Howard], Mr. Rudd promised to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 international accord aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Doing soContinue reading “Good News for the Planet: Bush Alley Loses in Australia”
The New Bear Market
Truly original thinkers come up with lots of ideas and inevitably, some of them are pretty wacky. This site features lots of Tom Toles: here he’s so far outside the box one has to wonder a little…but it stuck with me, this morning when the stock market headed negative for the year, so it’s worthContinue reading “The New Bear Market”
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