Not Just for the Birds: Oktoberfest Courting Rituals
Posted on September 24, 2007 - Filed Under California, Culture, Video | Leave a Comment
If you think the mating rituals of birds are weird, you should check out Tyrolean folk dancing. We stayed away from the real Oktoberfest this year, opting for a far more civilized celebration in Northern California. More on (and high-quality Flash Video) on The Connected Traveler.
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Big Trees
Posted on September 19, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Audio, 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 name […]
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NanoBeat: What Would Kerouac Think?
Posted on June 19, 2007 - Filed Under California, Culture, Tech & Science, Video, Misc. | Leave a Comment
When I was much younger than now, my image of a beatnik was the bongo-playing Maynard G. Krebs, a 1950s TV sitcom character who went apoplectic at the mere utterance of the word “work.” To my parents, beatniks were lazy, laughable bums who didn’t understand that life was all about battling crabgrass […]
Read More..>>The Golden Gate Bridge: A Troll’s View
Posted on February 7, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, California | Leave a Comment
Over the weekend, while stalking the Queen Mary 2, I walked under the Golden Gate Bridge, getting a very untouristy look (and listen) at it. I recorded the weird, unnerving sounds of traffic a few feet above me. What was that clank?
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Read More..>>Memories of Manka’s
Posted on December 30, 2006 - Filed Under California, Food & Wine | Leave a Comment
In November I surprised my wife on her birthday. We got in the car and started driving, not to dinner in San Francisco but toward the Northern California coast, and not to our usual haunts in Muir or Stinson beaches. Not to Bolinas, the little town that counterculture built, now inhabited by a melange […]
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