Archive for the 'Elsewhere' Category

“Luxury condominiums for fish”

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Reporting from Slaughter Beach, Delaware, Ian Urbina has an article in today’s New York Times about the offshoring of the MTA’s Redbird trains to create artificial reefs, a combination of the subway and the natural world that I find fascinating.
In the last several years, the reefs have drawn swift open-ocean fish, like tuna and mackerel, […]

Pow!Pow! English

Monday, November 13, 2006

Long ago I was subjected to French in Action videos, and then there was a brief post-college stint of teaching ESL to adults. I showed up one day to discover a student had written on the blackboard, “Teacher why is you always late?”
Anyway, I am currently taking an incredible amount of pleasure in “Pow!Pow! English,” […]