Green Path Dead

15 March 2010

DWP’s strategy here has been a moving target. That can’t have helped it get done. But desert environmental groups seem to have successfully played this as their victory.

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In the good news department

7 March 2010

I can’t wait until Claire’s got a website! In the meantime, you can find her on Abbott-Kinney at Elvino making wine accessible and interesting and generally having good taste. I’m looking forward to going over there to swirl and taste. And savor, I guess, but that seems less likely. Savoring seems to require patience.

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First in a series: Needed Inventions, a list

27 January 2010

In this case, a word. Someone should invent a word for when someone is more famous to you than their empiric famosity quotient should yield. My ur-example is Julian Barnes. He’s not necessarily famous on the street in the United States. Probably, when you get down to it, not famous on the street in London. [...]

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