Dinosaurs

Photo: dinosaur foot­prints in Goseong, South Korea ©2006 287 is a lot of miles if you’re not going any­where $21.60 tops the gas tank a liq­uid dinosaur in the gas tank a dinosaur exhausted an exhausted dinosaur going up in smoke abstracted from its own imprint below con­crete surf punk imprints the pedal abstracted from his […]

People who live in Dome Houses

I first caught the geodesic-dome bug back in the 1970s, for no rea­son other than my ongo­ing fas­ci­na­tion with unique dwellings. While there are many alter­na­tives, domes in par­tic­u­lar have some impor­tant and prac­ti­cal advan­tages over the rec­tan­gu­lar boxes that most of us live in. From the Tiny House Blog: [1] The sphere is nature’s most […]

Meatball Humor?

I found this while shop­ping for task light­ing online. No fur­ther com­men­tary nec­es­sary: Too funny — thanks Lunchbreath!

Change Agents

Noted jazz musi­cian Her­bie Han­cock said the fol­low­ing in a Key­board Mag­a­zine inter­view pub­lished back in Feb­ru­ary 2002: To me, being in a com­fort zone is a kind of dying — you just stay there, and you don’t grow. It’s the oppo­site of what human exis­tence is really about: con­stant growth, until you can’t any­more, and […]

Mirth

For me, spring­time is a per­sonal mat­ter. Win­ter has bot­tled me up like an evil genie. It’s stuffy in here, and my eyes are tired from winter’s dim light. I bolt out­side in my light jacket and pick a neigh­bor­hood. Which one doesn’t really mat­ter. Bal­lard and Mag­no­lia are my favorites. I walk up one […]