fish without faces

there's an old man in my neighborhood, who cashed it all out this Halloween. $1,000 in $5 bills on his dining room table, stacked, waiti...

a mourning dove hung on the wire line one evening like a long soft blade we two lay supine and looking up, the branches burned? were not con...

when an overfriendly recent divorcée of middle-age pulls up in her maroon Camaro and decides to buy the home you’re renting, this is when yo...

last night we drove down to Salina to meet some people for dinner. on the way we saw a familiar face hitchhiking on highway 89 in front of t...

what could have thrown this lakebed two miles into the air? to where the weather and clouds roll on their bellies, scuffing their cheeks and...

Last night the neighborhood watch reported a raggedy, sandy-haired hobo. His willowy silhouette passed over lawns and through front and back...

one time I saw this movie about a guy in Italy who found a special book sitting in a dustbin. it was missing its cover and he spent the rest...

here’s a little more Americana from the national archives

my friend Paul is working as a security guard in Hawaii these days. his company sends him out to protect state parks and private schools and...

I’ve never done anything like this before. I want you to try it with me. and I'm letting you know now so you can save the date and begin...

Blog Archive ▼ 2007 (30) ▼ kesäkuu (5) an æsthesia this summer: blue planet run! high school reunion Rat Fink Reunion cocoa krispies with ey...

last week these guys began a 15,000 mile relay across the northern hemisphere through 16 countries. it’s all about helping a billion people ...

all this talk about reunions got me thinking about how I graduated from high school 10 years ago and that there was probably some kind of re...

I’m not a car* guy. but I have always been pretty intrigued by the Rat Fink scene. so imagine my excitement when I learned that the Rat Fink...

wtf?

E.O. Wilson has been trying to get this kind of deal going for a while. now that it's coming together I have to admit I'm sort of am...

for the next few days radio west is in town (Spring City to be precise) doing some shows about local stuff: history, housing, the art scene...

yesterday I drove 4 hours for a 2 hour meeting. now I’m all driven out, sheesh. but if it were at all possible I would make the trip up to O...

a few years ago my friend Oliver threw one of the best Halloween parties I’ve ever been to. good food, some friends I hadn’t seen in a long ...

A.K.B. 3/22/2007 7:39 am 6lb 14oz 21" I feel like I aught to get a tattoo or something. pictures

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Of the parts of animals some are simple: to wit, all such divide into parts uniform with themselves, as flesh into flesh; others are composi...

the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is doing their annual bird count this weekend, February 16-19. go outside and look around, then go to their w...

Reverend Kevin Thompson just got busted. he’d been recruiting fishermen from among his disciples instead of the other way around and now he’...

Daybreak On the tidal mud, just before sunset, dozens of starfishes were creeping. It was as though the mud were a sky and enormous, im...

in junior high they would call assemblies over all kinds of stuff. if a PG cover band was in town and friendly with the school board, they c...

I mistook a cold fanbelt, chirping down main street for a canyon wren hoarfrost, each morning twenty-four below zero encrusts my doork...

last year they found Tiktaalik up in Nunavut, Canada and since then it’s made its way into museums, Nature , PBS and the Colbert Report. so ...

The whirligig beetles are wary and fast with an organ to detect the ripples. The arachnid moths lay their eggs inside other insects along ...

Lanny Johnson at the Alpha Omega Institute has prepared some information on sea slugs , bombardier beetles , and megapod thermometer birds o...

A fish, like the tuna or the sardine, which live in a school, would be less likely to vary than this lonely horned shark, for the school wou...

The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed back and fo...

here he is on Christmas, 1860 and why he named a jellyfish after his first wife: "Mitrocoma Annae belong to the most charming of all t...