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'The Last of Us' and the Apocalypse
It sure feels like we’re in endtimes sometimes, doesn’t it? Really it all feels like exactly what Naomi Klein was talking about in The Shock Doctrine…
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New horizons
At the end of April, I will be leaving California. My move will fall just a couple weeks short of four years here. (My wife, however, has lived here her…
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Flatness
Hello again
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July 2021

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The hem and the haw of the planet of war
We — the royal we, because I personally did not do shit — landed an SUV on a planet that, at its closest, is about 34 million miles away. We did it with…
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The fauna
We should be pleased as punch that we get to share our Earth and our time with certain species. It can be the lovely birds, dinosaurs transformed into a…
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Afterlife
or after life
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January 2021

Gardens
I’m sorry I haven’t been here, I’ve been a bit stressed. I’ve taken to walks through the woods or the hills before work in the morning, usually…
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This Week
This week, after too long, the pot boiled over This week, after too long, the dreams of vile tracts like The Turner Diaries, attempted to spill from…
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Happy Newt Year
Unsolicited newts and likin' the lichens
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Happy Newt Year
Unsolicited newts
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