- On how last night I spilled club soda on my laptop, forgetting my phone charging when my phone chirped with a message from a Biden volunteer, Would you like to phone bank for Joe Biden, me hurrying to shout type NO! charging cord tipping can of water
- My laptop didn't freak out, I skate again
- Random barking
- As good a boomer summation of finding ourselves here as any
- Magic 8 Ball says no
- The racist foundation of nuclear architecture
- 130 Degrees: If we stay on the current business-as-usual trajectory, we could see two degrees as soon as the early 2030s, three degrees around mid-century, and four degrees by 2075 or so. If we’re unlucky with positive feedbacks…from thawing permafrost in the Arctic or collapsing tropical rainforests, then we could be in for five or even six degrees by century’s end.
- Game theory of life
- On donkeys, I swear I daydream of killing people who hurt animals
- Crackers are weird, christers too
- Avedon Carol's occasional links
- Maggie's weekly links
- { feuilleton }'s weekly links
- Contrafreeloading and cats
- New Throwing Muses! (youtubes next post if I remember)
- I haven't listened to Poulenc in years, the fuck wrong with me
LITTLE EXERCISE
Elizabeth Bishop
Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily
like a dog looking for a place to sleep in,
listen to it growling.
Think how they must look now, the mangrove keys
lying out there unresponsive to the lightning
in dark, coarse-fibred families,
where occasionally a heron may undo his head,
shake up his feathers, make an uncertain comment
when the surrounding water shines.
Think of the boulevard and the little palm trees
all stuck in rows, suddenly revealed
as fistfuls of limp fish-skeletons.
It is raining there. The boulevard
and its broken sidewalks with weeds in every crack
are relieved to be wet, the sea to be freshened.
Now the storm goes away again in a series
of small, badly lit battle-scenes,
each in "Another part of the field."
Think of someone sleeping in the bottom of a row-boat
tied to a mangrove root or the pile of a bridge;
think of him as uninjured, barely disturbed.
here's something i didn't know -
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of different mangrove species… Like, a lot, a lot.
Around the world, more than 50 different species of mangroves can be found. These species are very different, and most aren’t even closely related to one another. Mangrove species are distinguished by physical and ecological traits rather than through the plant genus. The three species we most commonly see in Florida are the red mangrove, the black mangrove, and the white mangrove.
https://www.twenty5degrees.com/blogs/blog/25-things-you-didn-t-know-about-mangroves
Thankee. Nice image up top.
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