Starbucks’ new Vonnegut cups
My daughter noticed the new Starbucks Vonnegut cups: Really psyched about the Starbucks Vonnegut cups: "This is a picture of an asshole" pic.twitter.com/cKfwReOUFK — Norapinephrine (@NoraReed) November 2, 2014
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Desert Poor
Wandering up an arroyo this evening after dinner. Seen through a barbed wire fence festooned with ominous “no trespassing” signs, behind some trees, old junk cars, classic American desert poor.
Clouds
Jagger, Richards and Steinberg on the California water bond
California state senator Darrel Steinberg on the California water bond: In the water world, you can’t always get everything you want, but there’s a whole lot in this bond that California needs. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on (I think) taking a lot of drugs and getting laid: You can’t always get what you want …
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The Colorado River is no one thing, episode XXVI
Laughlin, Nevada: The river is the focal point — and reason behind — the town’s existence. Without it there would be no casinos. During the summer months, the river is more of a factor in the Laughlin experience than at any other time of year. The all-too-easy-to-adopt thought that Laughlin is too hot in the …
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Grover explains how to solve the Colorado River’s problems
Grover’s talking here about raisins, but I think it generalizes.
Test
Just testing out a new plugin. Nothing to see here, move along.
At Costco, piles of Piketty
The Four Corners is a complicated place
The Four Corners is a very big, very arid, and very complicated place.
Someone built this a long time ago
Back from Mesa Verde and filing my pictures, there is this: More impressive to me, in some ways, than the big stuff. Eight centuries ago, some people went to a lot of trouble to climb up to that upper alcove and build a little wall. Maybe they built more. I don’t know.