archives for April 2007
still don’t believe the world is ending? fishes and bees, mes amis
Monday 30 April 2007 | I like a cookie
World’s Seafood Supply Running Out, Researchers Warn
An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year study of catch data and the effects of fisheries collapses.
The paper, published in the journal Science, […]
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a day spent outside is a good day
Monday 30 April 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar
Yesterday the Brujo took me cactus-hunting around Zia and Jemez Pueblos; we got happily sunburnt, nearly stepped on lots of nearly concealed baby button-cute cacti and in the end finally came across three sclerocactus in hot-pink bloom. I also found a sandy blue lump of turquoise, just lying on top of a ridge among the […]
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you get the one they give you
Saturday 28 April 2007 | I like a cookie
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friday refrain · weak but strong
Saturday 28 April 2007 | I like a cookie
standing
I’m standing in the shadow of the hill
I’m standing in the shadow of the hill
feel the fear everywhere
hope it don’t get me killed
I’m standing in the shadow of the hill
I’m standing in the shadow walking blind
I’ve been unfair & unkind
turned away from your suffering
far too many times
now I’m standing in the shadow walking blind
oh […]
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technical difficulties
Saturday 28 April 2007 | I like a cookie
Who was it who said, “A day when you work is a good day”—O’Keeffe? Woolf? Some other woman with an F in her last name? In contemporaneity, I propose an amendation: “A day when your DSL connection works is a good day.”
I spent an hour or so on the phone this morning with Earthlink’s “Raymond” […]
oh.
Wednesday 25 April 2007 | I like a cookie
We were only getting so many hits for Weltschmerz because we misspelled it. It hasn’t got two zeds in it, just the one. Oh.
being with eating
Tuesday 24 April 2007 | someone left a cookie
It’s freaking snowing, y’all.
So last night Persephone cooked me a fabulous dinner of Asian scallion pancakes (with chopped green garlic, cilantro, shiitakes, green Anaheim chili and grated zucchini), black bean salsa, red lettuce and avocado salad, and for dessert an incredible platter of whipped cream drizzled with honey and studded with organic strawberries and chocolate […]
worst book summary ever
Monday 23 April 2007 | I like a cookie
From the publisher’s website:
In an exciting month for Houghton Mifflin poets, Natasha Trethewey received the Pulitzer Prize for her collection Native Guard, and Erica Funkhouser was granted a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
The elegiac Native Guard pays homage to the Louisiana Native Guards, one of the first black regiments called into service during the Civil War. […] […]
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weird middle-of-the-night thought
Monday 23 April 2007 | I like a cookie
If you don’t look it up on the Internet, who will?
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cutest thing my dad has ever said
Sunday 22 April 2007 | I like a cookie
On hearing that I would be going to the State School/moving to Tempe: That’s great, honey—oh, and I can help! I got a little dorm fridge here you can have!
