Archive for 2008
War isn’t good for people
Since the military isn’t doing enough to care for the mental health of our soldiers, private counselors are offering free help to veterans. Suicide rates are way up in the military right now, which is probably indicative of how much help our veterans are going to need when they get back. It’s not really surprising […]
New theme!
I know it’s been less than three months since I changed my blog theme, but I don’t like things the same all the time and my furniture is too heavy to move by myself. So if you use a feed reader, drop by and check out my pretty new page.
Festival of the Trees
There’s a new edition of Festival of the Trees up at Wrenaissance Reflections. Go read it! The best bits: Cutting down forests might kill you at Via Negativa. Getting rid of mangroves did kill people in Burma at Living the Scientific Life. Beautiful pictures of new leaves at Seeded Earth.
70 degrees in Flagstaff
Good weather is finally here.
Weekly Top 5
Chumbawamba – Tubthumper Chumbawamba – Un Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks Thievery Corporation – The Cosmic Game Infected Mushroom – Converting Vegetarians
Dying
Everyone knows that they’re going to die eventually, but most of the time we try really hard not to think about it. When we do think about it, we do things like eat more cookies and go shopping. But disease often forces us to confront our mortality. In portraits of the dying, the artist spoke […]
Movies in the Square
Every Friday night in Flagstaff in the summer, they show a movie in the square. Beforehand there’s usually a small performance. Last night it was the dance troupe from the community college. They were not very good and asked the audience for money to go to a competition in Italy. Even though Shrek the Third […]