Category Archives: Nature

Okie Quake

September 3, 2016 – 4:57 pm

This morning a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck northern Oklahoma. The tremor’s epicenter located around Pawnee, the seat of Green County was the strongest quake in recent history for the Great Plains, knocking down a wall of an old building in Pawnee. People felt the seismic shaking as far away as Austin, Texas, resurrecting more concerns about […]

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The world Is 4Q – TV Fish

September 3, 2016 – 10:05 am

4Q was a cryptic abbreviation for the most spoken phrase in the English language. People say it more than ‘I love you’ or ‘huh’. A variation of the term is ‘snafu’, which means ‘situation normal all fucked up’, which is exactly what I have to say after reading the following article from the WASHINGTON POST. ALERT FOR […]

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Drunken Beach Tans

July 6, 2016 – 12:41 pm

Few better tans than the drunken beach tan. Scarlet flesh. Parboiled by the sun. And I know its lash. Fire Island. 1997. Only for an hour. Ouch.

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The Source Of The Gowanus Canal

October 12, 2015 – 7:26 pm

The native Lenape Indian tribe had fished and hunted the Gowanus Creek since the Ice Age. Gowanus Creek was first explored by Henry Hudson and Giovanni da Verrazzano. The Dutch bought the land to raise tobacco and later built a grist mill to process wheat and corn. The Dutch also harvested oysters by the billions. […]

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7 Billion More or Less

March 10, 2015 – 2:02 pm

The population of the planet in 1952 was approximately 2.635 billion people. I was born in May that year. I will be 68 in two months. Several years ago the UN announced that humanity has reached seven billion people faster than predicted by the most Malthusian experts on growth. The death rate of 150,000 people […]

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