Grey skies in Kabul shed more than thirty centimeters of snow on the 24th and 25th of December. As the snow started to fall, it melted in the muddy streets. By mid-day on the 24th, a white film started form. Soon, all of Kabul was covered with a thick layer of white powder. Children and […]
Taoist Beatles Propaganda, Part II
I ran into Thurston Moore, guitarist for Sonic Youth, at the book party for Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, an anthology we’re both in. I told him I am beginning an anti-Beatles blog. "The Beatles are The Beatles," said Thurston, tautologically. Then he added: "There are innovators […]
Photographers Document Climate Change Worldwide
Hardly a day goes by without some mention of the evidence of climate change. The stories often have to do with hurricanes or ice caps. Rarely do the little signs of climate change that we all notice in our lives appear in news stories – they’re just little things, but together they present a larger […]
Listeners
My fellow, patriotic Americans, Today, I speak to you as the President of the United States of America, your President, not as the Leader of the Free World. I want to talk to you about patriotism, about preventing terrorist attacks on our country and about how you can all be involved in our War […]
The Lighthouse
It rested softly in her hands, aged and frail. “Do you want to open it now?” asked Angela. Her brother shook his head and looked toward the black cockatoos brutally pruning the eucalypts by the creek. The land sloped down from the house, overgrown shrubs crowding around what had once been an expanse of lawn. […]