An epidemiologist I know recommended reading up on the 1918 epidemic. While it is a lesson in underreaction, it’s also a lesson in overreaction. Egypt is killing pigs to stop it. In discussing whether it’s better to overreact or underreact, or react just perfectly, please be informed. Wingnuts who say there’s no such thing as [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
1918 Was 91 Years Ago
Posted in General Pop Culture
Tagged epidemic, overreaction, pandemic, swine flu, underreaction
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Second of a Few More
The diorama is half-built. In the back area, there should be a tiger, a banker, some broken chairs, and a penguin.
Weather It Matters
By golly. Breakin rekkids, askin questions. If the water boils on the stove, everything is copacetic.
The Pacific Gyro (Not the Hawaiian Meat Sandwich)
I gave the garbage patch in the Pacific Gyre a mention on my myspace blog last year right before I started this blog. Of course around Earth Day, Oprah and the Huffington Post saw fit to highlight a newish documentary on the subject. One of the comments says everything about American media and ignorance: Nothing [...]
Posted in Media, Science
Tagged Garbage Island, Garbage Patch, Oprah, Pacific Gyre, pollution
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Torture Chuckles
Nooners! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c We Don’t Torture thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Update: Agree with Josh and Sullivan … Let’s call Cheney’s bluff.
City of Trees and Alloy Table Legs
I set out to take some spring shots but it’s not time yet. It’s going to be raining off and on for the next two days. After that… April showers, pilgrims; as I like to say.
How Many Frames And Why Aren’t Any Circular?
Fill each with a story, link them all through coincidence and circumstance, and you’ve got a novel. Eureka. I’m just laughing at the way different people write and how many of them don’t.
Posted in Writing, Blogging
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The Yawning Sarcophagus of Common Sense
The problem with the Tax Day Teabag Protests was that no alternative was offered. Some of those interviewed called Obama a fascist but could not articulate why they felt this way. The governor Texas threatening to secede is apparently signaling his constituents that it’s okay to hate America again. I understand the bipartisan frustration of [...]
Posted in Politics, Richard's Forwards
Tagged banks, Goldman Sachs, oil, Simon Johnson, teabagging, UAW, Wall Street
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Minton’s on 118
I had a great time at Minton’s Playhouse the other night. It felt like Augie’s (now SMOKE) back in the day. On April 29th, they’ll be celebrating Duke Ellington’s 110th birthday. Performing is Darby Dizard and the Blue Millenium Orchestra, featuring several alumni of Duke Ellington’s Orchestra. Git it in yer soul.
The First of a Few More
I’ll be shooting some magnolia trees and cherry trees and some fertilizer pretty soon now.
Salvador Dalí Was a Rodeo
“One day I climbed up as fast as I could to the olive grove where I had carried out all these experiments, but I had brought neither my liquid machine gun nor the live rhinoceros that I would have liked for the prints, nor even some half-dead octopus. It was the only time when, as [...]