Archive for 2011
Hello from ESA 2011!
I’m at ESA in Austin, Texas – thanks to you! I’m melting from the heat, but so happy and excited to be here. I’ve already run into lots of old friends and interviewed my first awesome ecologist. Awesome ecologist posts will likely be up late this week or sometime next week. Until then, have a […]
Sunday Song
Sally Shapiro – He Keeps Me Alive
Floating
Dreams from the Malaria Pills (Turner) Forward Operating Base Eagle, Iraq This time it’s beautiful. He’s in the kelp beds somewhere off the California coast, floating where green leaves touch the sun, as if he’s disentangled from thought itself, as if the mind has come this far, up from the depths to release him to […]
Big City Pride
The Pride Festivals I attended before this weekend were literally walled off events. The festival would rent part of a city park and surround it with chain link fence, then plaster the fence with signs. You couldn’t see in or out. These events were trying to carve out a safe space and do a little […]
Comments Housekeeping
I’ve switched to Disqus for comment management here. Until all the comments originally made in the old system finish importing into Disqus, comments on old posts may not be visible. Give it a day or two before you start emailing me about problems with comments showing up.
Sunday Song
Google Plus
I was really excited about the possibilities of Google+. I really enjoy using it – so much smarter and more useful and fun than facebook. I was disappointed early on when the privacy controls on my profile weren’t as fine grained as I’d like – I wanted to include a link to my blog, but […]