On Foot in London
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, London | Leave a Comment
As a Monty Python fan, London in my minds eye is a city of silly walks: eccentric lopes, tortured tangos and Teutonic goose steps. It is really quite opposite that, in fact. That’s why the Pythons were funny. Last week in London, Pat and I settled into an apartment off Fleet Street and toured [...]
Democracy and Debauchery
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Misc., News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Oh, we Americans are a wild and crazy bunch: toiling hard and productively, spreading democracy by day…partying hard by night. Or is it partying day and night? According to a new report on travel trends, we Yanks are binge drinking, G-string snapping “debaucherists,” longing for the eternal spring break. This report, put out by the [...]
Dancing With Extraterrestrials at Hat Creek
Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, California, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Artist’s Illustration, Allen Telescope Array – Issac Gary There are events from your early childhood that stick with you. My earliest memory was when at age four my mother, in a rage, tossed out most of my toys, which I had cast randomly about the house, an act that immediately erased any Oedipal urges. The [...]
Belgium: What Would Poirot Do?
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Belgium, News | Leave a Comment
It looks like a case for Hercule Poirot. The Economist wants to kill off Belgium. What is the motive, what will be the instrument of death? In an editorial this week, that venerable bastion of common sense in a world of cable news banshees suggests that Belgium should be allowed to just wither away. Not [...]
Big Trees
Posted on September 19, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Books, California, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Stout Grove Redwoods Stout Grove — Photo & Review: Russell Johnson On this Fourth of July I am looking out my window at something that transcends our brief, troubled time, a being whose living cousins were born before Jesus, who have survived the scores of scoundrels that have spread misery across the earth in the [...]
