Archive for 2008

Blood-Lakes

-As for me: laugh at me. I agree with you. It is a fool- ish business to see the future and screech at it. One should watch and not speak. And patriotism has run the world through so many many blood-lakes: and we always fall in. From “So Many Blood-Lakes” by Robinson Jeffers

For Una

I built her a tower when I was young- Sometime she will die – I built it with my hands, I hung Stones in the sky Old but still strong I climb the stone – Sometime she will die – Climb the steep rough steps alone, And weep in the sky. From “For Una” by […]

Digression Hats

This week I’m taking a course in population biology from Dr. Robin Snyder. She’s a pretty fantastic teacher. I only looked at the clock 4 times in 6 hours today. You should notice she’s wearing two hats in this picture. The first hat goes on when she starts a digression. The second hat is for […]

Flying

Flying is awful.  It wouldn’t be that bad if I could ever afford a direct flight.  But the cheap tickets are always the worst.  It took me over 12 hours to get from Phoenix to Kalamazoo.  I wasn’t in the air that long.  I spent most of my time in the LA and Detroit airports […]

What I’ve noticed

Monitor Mix is complaining about the same music being redone.  Have you ever heard of Cilla Black or Sandy Shaw? Doing science in a nutshell at Seeds Aside: If you don’t make mistakes, you’re doing it wrong.   If you don’t correct those mistakes you’re doing it really wrong.  If you can’t accept that you’re mistaken, […]

Art Walk

Unlike the last art walk, I actually took a picture of some of the art last night. People make strange things and mean even stranger things by them. I really did like some of the paintings by Chrissy Holland, but I can’t find any of the paintings I liked to post here.