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A gnarly tree
Sunday I drove a little bit out of town to take a picture of one of the coolest trees I've found in the Madison area. By midmorning when I got there, it's still a neat tree, but against a sunrise for a backdrop, it's sublimely beautiful.
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
I picked it up because I've been working through Salman Rushdie's corpus in no particular order. But not until halfway down the first page did I realize what kind of book it was. Apparently, he spent the first two years of his life-in-hiding writing a children's fantasy, which, as far as I have seen so far, is his only book with a happy ending. ( Read more... ) -
In which I speak heresy....
It is a reasonable supposition that because feed conversion ratios for turning corn into meat are on the order of 10:1, somewhat more for beef, somewhat less for pork and poultry, we could do the environment a favor by eating mostly plants ( Read more... ) -
Crime on a snowy evening in Madison.
This evening someone opened all my car doors and turned my headlights on. Fortunately I returned to it while my battery still worked. -
A milestone, ten of them, actually ...
So today I finally got my running distance up to 10 miles. The pace was only a 10-minute mile pace, but I went the distance. This is the first time I've ever built to this distance before I hurt myself. This year might finally be the year I make the marathon ( Read more... ) -
August (reprise with snow)
It began raining the day I moved to Madison; the thunderstorm very nearly did not stop for the month of August. Today I wake to thunder, drips hitting the windowpanes. It could be August again, except there is snow. -
On dreams
I seldom remember my dreams after waking, except sometimes, something will trigger a memory of an event or experience, sometimes marked as belonging to a dream by its implausible elements, but more often marked as from a dream simply by its lack of context ... the feeling that if I experienced this, I experienced it nowhere ( Read more... ) -
funniest ebay item evar
You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad ( Read more... ) -
Sore
I have discovered there is a muscle in the back connecting the top of the pelvic arch to the lower ribs. I have discovered that it it apparently not trained by the way I was doing side bends, but is definitely trained by the way I did them on Friday.
