charts appropriated from this short and interesting Wikipedia page about the tiny Serbian hamlet of Donji Srb.
Sep 152018
Aug 212018
Westlake and Third
Aug 192018
From the Epic of Gilgamesh, ca. 1600 BCE,
From Gilgamesh, a New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
Mar 172018
https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/supername
Unless I missed the great Helen Salzman does not once mention that the title of her podcast is a superhero name, like this guy in Michael Chabon’s book “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay“, which is also great.
Feb 092018
Feb 052018
Spokane Street Bridge
Feb 032018
Under West Seattle Bridge
Oct 302017
May 092017
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
– Mark Twain
That is the opening slide in the movie. This movie intends to tar the objectors to GMO with the “science denier” label. It is probably right, sorta. What I took from the movie is that in there are 3 main reasons to oppose GMO technology. Because it is an effort by giant amoral corporations with a track record of being deceptive to take over the world’s food supply, because many GMO crops are made to be “Round-up Ready” meaning that oceans of Round-up are now being used, and because there is something mad scientistish and ominous about inserting genes from one plant into another. It appears that most of the airtime is taken up talking about the first two of these, in equal measure by both sides. Odd to me that the actual science part seems to be less controversial than the governance parts
May 062017
| I have a feeling that if you enjoyed “Napolean Dynamite” or any of Christopher Guest’s oeuvre, this is a movie for you. Otherwise, probably not so much. |  |