Category Archives: Environment

7:03 AM

November 14, 2012 – 5:45 pm

Last month I started waking at 7:03am. I am not a light sleeper, but something was disturbing my slumber cycle. I opened the window of the Fort Greene Observatory to the morning air and heard a machine rumble. I immediately identified the source as the transformer powering the construction of a condo tower several blocks […]

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On A Clear Day

October 22, 2012 – 6:23 pm

Almost sixty years ago weather conditions over London blanketed the city with a damp toxic fog of coal dust. The gray air was thick with choking carbon particles. Visibility was dropped to one foot in the Stygian gloom. Thousands fatally succumbed to respiratory ailments with hundreds of thousands suffering severe breathing difficulties throughout that December. […]

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Water Bottle People

July 20, 2012 – 5:12 pm

In my hometown outside of boston a spring provides free clean water. All you have to do is bring your own bottle. I waited there for an hour. No one took up the offer. The fools are happier with the water in their plastic bottles. Fools.

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Trash in Space

June 28, 2012 – 8:46 pm

My friend Eddie Mickie weighed more than 300 pounds. He was the only fat person in Bethpage. Everyone else was thin. The year was 1971. Eddie was so heavy that his weight bend the frame of his Harley. Obsessed by space Eddie lost a third of his mass so he could take a glider flight. […]

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Dry Season

April 30, 2012 – 11:59 am

E My wife Mam tells me that the water is running from the tap and the Sri Racha water authorities are promising no water shortages in the present heat wave, but in Pattaya old water mains are failing to keep up with demand and funky old water trucks are sucking the Jomtien lagoons dry. City […]

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