Category Archive: February, 2006
- The Blob that Ate Los Angeles? - 02/21/2006
Although we are not particularly fans of the tacky movie genre, we couldn't ignore this Los Angeles Daily News headline: Mystery blob eating downtown.
Turns out there is something icky giving a problem to ol' downtown L.A. It does get curiouser and curiouser.
Our advice: avoid. - Letters from Tennessee (Williams, that is) - 02/17/2006
It is easy, after reading one of his plays, to think of prolific playwright Tennessee Williams as indescribably brilliant. We read, some years ago, The Rose Tattoo, and found the entire play/movie springing full bloom to the mind. One wonders how such brilliant, evocative writing interplays with the creativity of actors undertaking to reproduce the […]
- Climate Change and Global Warming - 02/16/2006
Here, in a piece entitled Climate change: On the edge, is a clear explanation about some of the effects of global warming from NASA scientist Jim Hansen. It's not gorgeous, but it's real — and points the way at what can be done.
- The Egyptian Cotton Sheets - 02/12/2006
We are so bad. We were in the midst of studying HTML (website coding) when we somehow ended up at Overstock.com. Where our eyes almost popped out of our heads (an ugly look for a female, particularly in so visuals-conscious a town as Los Angeles).
What caught our attention?
The 600-thread count pure Egyptian cotton […]
