One of the more amusing features of life in the USofA is the steady parade of things that are found to be bad for you. Studies are done constantly that show there is a risk of some health problem from nearly everything in our highly processed and man-made world.
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Urban Core: Life
This is the fourth and last in a series on cities in the USofA. The first entries can be found here:
Urban Core
Urban Core: Lessons
Urban Core: New Urbanism
What is the purpose of a city?
Fantasy and Perspective
Imagine what your life must look like from a distance. You spend a lot of time bizzy and bizzier only to flop down from exhaustion at the end of a week. The minor irritations caused by your family or boss or anyone don’t seem anywhere near as important when you try to explain them to someone who isn’t involved. The small joys you receive from the loves of your life aren’t as important to someone else.
Net-Work’d
Today is mail day, and we have a special kind of event. Perhaps even a “special” event. This time we visit some old television shows, “The Rockford Files” meets “The Twilight Zone”.
I was watching an old “Rockford Files” DVD from netflix on Sunday, since season 4 only recently came out. In the middle of another wonderful story by Juanita Bartlett, the writer whose pacing and rhythm is matched only by her ability to get into her characters’ skin, I had a thought. It’s been months since I tried to track her down via the internet. Perhaps there is something new.
Urban Core: New Urbanism
This is the third in a series on cities in the USofA. I don’t yet know how many there will be total. The first entries can be found here:
Urban Core
Urban Core: Lessons
It’s one of those great stories that might as well be true. The legend is that General Eisenhower, touring a conquered Germany, saw how efficient the Autobahn was for moving troops and supplies. When he became President of the USofA just 8 years later, he moved to create the same system, to be called “Interstates” over here.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 