Archive for the 'Wildlife' Category

It’s about time

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Justin Bond has a blog. A taste:
Actually my make-up was wind-swept and tear-stained already after being WHIPPED FROM PILLAR TO POST (OMG -What do you think that aphorism is referencing?) by that asshole Jack Frost when I was walking home from my shrink appointment, but DON’T EXPECT COMPLETE TRUTH in this blog and if you’ve [...]

“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, [...]

Ruth Webb, 1918-2006

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Ruth Webb, a talent agent who specialized in comebacks, died on December 4. Her client list included Gloria Swanson, Mickey Rooney, Tonya Harding, Phyllis Diller, and Divine Brown. She was also fond of raccoons.
There, in a cloud of white satin bedsheets, Ms. Webb tirelessly worked the phones, persuading and cajoling, often nursing a live baby [...]

Plaintive and Penetrating

Thursday, August 4, 2005

Welcome to Kill Fee. Not to be confused with the killdee or killdeer, which is described in Merriam-Webster as “a plover found throughout temperate No. America and in southern areas in migration to So. America, being about 10 inches long, grayish brown above, ferruginous in the rump, and white below and with two black bands [...]