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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Save the whalesongs.

I read online that the songs of humpback whales have changed over the decades as generations of whales add their own idiosyncracies and borrow riffs from whales in other pods. Furthermore, per the opinion of a longtime expert on cetaceans, humpback whale songs were actually better in the 60s. I don’t want to tell you [...]

I am a painter who does not paint and a writer who does not write. I am a Renaissance slacker.

Giving urban a farewell

Eight years ago, I thought I’d only live in Missouri for maybe a year and a half, like I had done in North Carolina, but, as the facts of my life have changed, the arrangement is growing more likely permanent, particularly the recent push from the big(gish) city to the rural small(er) town. I’m surprised [...]