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Archive for December, 2008
“Glossy talismans in unreal colors, as ephemeral as breath on glass…”
The New York Times has this piece by Michael Kimmelman, waxing poetic about the rise and fall of the Polaroid.
What Happens in Vegas Does Not Stay in Vegas
David Sirota is right in his judgment of Las Vegas’ unbridled energy consumption in this piece today at Salon.com. Las Vegas is not an escape; it’s a place where people come to practice the same bad habits they always do, just with the volume turned up.
Freegan Professor
Milton Saier is a professor of biology at the University of California at San Diego. He has also been climbing into dumpsters to retrieve discarded food for the last 30 years. He found a name for his pursuits a few years ago: freeganism.
Mistaken Attraction
This bird at the San Diego Zoo the other weekend kept me entertained for several minutes with its futile attempts to win over a female of the wrong species with its mating ritual – a high-pitched croak accompanied by a quick head bob. Few things are more amusing than perversions of nature – absurd moments [...]
Las Vegas Marathon
I found myself in Las Vegas over the weekend, and, as proof of either how straight-laced I am or how much I loathe any form of entertainment you actually have to pay for, I was in all seriousness ready to stop someone on the street and ask them, “Just what exactly is there to DO [...]
