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 […]

Ode to Ironwood Ridge

In the 1970s, Cen­tral New York skiers had a gem of a ski resort just fif­teen miles from down­town Syra­cuse called Iron­wood Ridge. This facil­ity offered 500 ver­ti­cal feet, five down­hill trails rang­ing from inter­me­di­ate to sui­ci­dal, night ski­ing, cross coun­try, bunny slope, pro shop, a mod­est lodge and one 1800-foot T-bar. Alright savvy mathematicians, […]

Lake Erie Windmills

There are wind­mills on Lake Erie. Eight of them, drink­ing in the full force of wind that blows east down the length of the lake. It’s strange, because green energy was once the pur­vey of lib­eral enclaves like Cal­i­for­nia and Scan­di­navia. Now wind­mills spin barely a mile from where the stacks of Beth­le­hem Steel once […]