Cloudy with a chance of ninjas

by | Dec 4, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

As I write we’re experiencing our first snow fall of the year, which also happens to be our first snowstorm. I’m a weather denier as a habit. This is not the same as a climate change denier. People who refuse to accept the evidence for anthropogenic...

Wolf Foot

by | Dec 30, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

This winter we haven’t gotten enough snow. “Enough” is what allows for cross country skiing. Even in New Hampshire where I spent part of the holidays the snow cover was patchy or absent. We passed a very wet hour tubing at a ski resort. The wet snow...

Conifers

by | Dec 30, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

On Christmas day I enact my most gratifying statement of rebellion against the dominant paradigm I haul the Christmas tree out of the house, cut off the branches and throw it in the brush pile on top of several previous years’ trees. The boarders don’t...
Nightcrawler: The Elephant in the Newsroom

Nightcrawler: The Elephant in the Newsroom

by | Dec 24, 2014 | Blogs, News, Nightcrawler

How do you start an interview with a 59-year-old actor who is coming off a year that included (literally) anchoring one of television’s most critically acclaimed series and co-starring in a flatulence-laden, sophomoric smash hit box office comedy weeks before his...