Gardens of Stone: A Film
For some, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) is the best film made about the Vietnam War: for some it …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
How Stuff Works
In my new career as an explorer of podcasts available to the iPhone — and so a welcome step away …
Salgado: Misery and Art
The demons of confusion are always with me at large-scale photo exhibitions of Sebastiao Salgado. They didn’t fail to come …
Climate: Hot and Getting Hotter
From Climate Progress Fast on the heels of the hottest June to October on record, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space …
Got Milk?
“The engineering firm CDM has come up with a more sustainable way to neutralize highly polluted soil. Instead of digging …
Ai Yi Yi Yiiii!
Great music, new to my ears, brought by a nice opinion article in the NY times. Los Cenzontles — the …
The Way
Lao Tzu’s (Old Master) Tao Te Ching [Way and Virtue The Ancient Text] is one of the oldest meditations we …
The Road — Taken
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, translated into film, opened in scattered theaters this week. In the Bay Area only two houses …