My states! My poor states!
April 04, 2009
Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, North Dakota
Okay, first, you may have seen that Mt. Redoubt erupted and has pretty much kept on erupting since March 22. We flew right beside Redoubt – it’s on the same peninsula as where we went bear viewing.
In fact, while we were taking our scary/thrilling ride over there, L., the broken crazy bearish...
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Rocky Mountain Blues
February 27, 2009
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
The Rocky Mountain News is folding. I know it’s a sign of the times blah blah and the newspaper moguls didn’t do enough fast enough to save themselves (hmm, no bailouts for this flailing industry?), but it’s a shame anyhow.
When D and I took our momentus trip cross country and back in 1985, we...
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John Updike, in 2 acts
February 22, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Life’s a shabby subterfuge
And death is real, and dark, and huge.
Those are lines from one of the last poems from John Updike.
The man is cold in his grave—he died, in case you’ve been under a particularly large boulder, nearly a month ago now. But damnit, I have two Updike sitings to...
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Just for the record…
January 21, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
The United States swore a new president in yesterday. You may have heard?
(photo ganked from The New York Times)
It’s silly to blog about the most-covered event since 9/11, so just skip this post; it’s only for my digital posterity (since T tried in vain to obtain some hard-paper copies of...
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The last thing I will ever write about Sarah Palin
December 28, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
I know, the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and as we put the final blows to 2008 and drag a shaking and shivering 09 onto the stage, you’re as fried and dried as the leftover Panettone bread pudding from Christmas morning.
But! Hasn’t it been nice, these past six weeks, to not have any...
