Role Models for Long Term Geographic Planning
When I was in middle school, I seriously considered putting one of my eyes out in order to wear an eye-patch. Eye patches, as my opinion held, were the height of good taste, speaking at once to a battle worn stateliness of a colonial military officer as well as the debonair charm of forest brigands or high seas privateers. I have recently begun reconsidered the eye patch as fashion accessory, because I am leaving Vancouver yet again. So in order to coordinate with my getaway from this dystopian, high security, prison city, I think a good blinding may be in order, ala Snake Pliskin of Escape from New York and Escape from LA fame.
But perhaps all of this is a bit to gaudy for a move that will take less than four days to complete and will relocate me only about ten miles at the most. Regardless, the whole thing is pretty much a done deal. I moving in to my friend Tucker’s house on Missouri St, less than two or three blocks from the intersection of Mississippi St and Fremont, so the neighborhood will not be too unfamiliar. In November my other friend Karl will be moving in as well to alleviate the higher rent that will beset Tucker and I in October.
The Tasteful Nudes are tentatively booked for a benefit show for victims of the Hurricane Katrina down in the Gulf States. More information should be coming our way soon, so keep posted. We’ll play our little hearts out and perhaps drop the most epic version of “Too Bad We Went Forward” to date.
Speaking of recent natural disasters, this whole hurricane business reminds me of how fragile human civilization is. A great majority of the earth’s population resides less than fifty miles from the sea, and as New Orleans demonstrates even a temporary rise in sea level and can cause destruction and anarchy on a massive scale. Initial official neglect and incompetence aside, the Gulf States are located in the richest most infrastructuralally sound countries in the world. With sea levels and temperatures rising, this kind of weather will continue to be the pattern into the century with even larger loss of life and property in countries that are less economically equipped to deal with natural disasters. Large fluctuations of shoreline and sea level are a fact of natural history. To see this you only have look in the limestone caves of Florida the Caribbean, just south and East of the area affected by Hurricane Katrina. Inside these caves are the bones of thousands of wild animals along with artifacts of early Native Americans, who recently had arrived on the continent, all within less than twelve thousand years ago.. These bones are under what is sometimes hundreds of feet of water. They contain remnants of ecosystems and culture and were eventually swamped the rise in water after the end of the last ice age. Who’s to say that we are not immune to further climatic and oceanic fluctuations?
But perhaps all of this is a bit to gaudy for a move that will take less than four days to complete and will relocate me only about ten miles at the most. Regardless, the whole thing is pretty much a done deal. I moving in to my friend Tucker’s house on Missouri St, less than two or three blocks from the intersection of Mississippi St and Fremont, so the neighborhood will not be too unfamiliar. In November my other friend Karl will be moving in as well to alleviate the higher rent that will beset Tucker and I in October.
The Tasteful Nudes are tentatively booked for a benefit show for victims of the Hurricane Katrina down in the Gulf States. More information should be coming our way soon, so keep posted. We’ll play our little hearts out and perhaps drop the most epic version of “Too Bad We Went Forward” to date.
Speaking of recent natural disasters, this whole hurricane business reminds me of how fragile human civilization is. A great majority of the earth’s population resides less than fifty miles from the sea, and as New Orleans demonstrates even a temporary rise in sea level and can cause destruction and anarchy on a massive scale. Initial official neglect and incompetence aside, the Gulf States are located in the richest most infrastructuralally sound countries in the world. With sea levels and temperatures rising, this kind of weather will continue to be the pattern into the century with even larger loss of life and property in countries that are less economically equipped to deal with natural disasters. Large fluctuations of shoreline and sea level are a fact of natural history. To see this you only have look in the limestone caves of Florida the Caribbean, just south and East of the area affected by Hurricane Katrina. Inside these caves are the bones of thousands of wild animals along with artifacts of early Native Americans, who recently had arrived on the continent, all within less than twelve thousand years ago.. These bones are under what is sometimes hundreds of feet of water. They contain remnants of ecosystems and culture and were eventually swamped the rise in water after the end of the last ice age. Who’s to say that we are not immune to further climatic and oceanic fluctuations?