I have written at greater length than one might think possible about dandelions and the ways they’ve been used throughout…
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Art in the Time of COVID-19
Amidst our current crisis, I’m reading too much about how art can “lift our spirits” and “bring us together.” The…
Moon Dance
I do not often look towards the sky. I live in Los Angeles now and before that New York City.…
City Plants: Common Purslane
How Portulaca Oleracea (Common Purslane) arrived to the New World is a mystery. For most of botanical history it was assumed to…
The Train from LA to Santa Barbara
Having recently moved from the East to the West Coast, I don’t have as much occasion to take the train…
Mixtape: Vietnam War Side B
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Mixtape: Vietnam War Side A
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Gleaning
Back in college when funds were scarce and all things anti-establishment worth doing, I used to sneak into the dumpsters behind…
The First Circus, 1921
Actually 2 films mistakenly catalogued together, The First Circus is the work of German American puppeteer and illustrator Tony Sarg,…
Beneath tropic seas; a record of diving among the coral reefs of Haiti
In 1928, William Beebe and his fellow members of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society…
