This photo (by Ivan Corsa) shows the graffiti icon, “Claw”, in downtown New York. Sometimes the claw is blue-white, red-white or other color-white. The one on 2nd Avenue in the East Village reads “cookie.” Note the Yellow Rat Bastard promo sticker in the lower left corner. I visited NYC in March, not to work, just […]
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Fly Your Corncob Through The Clouds
I was thinking a lot about science fiction while working in New Zealand last September and October. When I was very young, I would bike home furiously from school (barefoot even in winter because I liked it that way), and read for hours. I fell in love with science fiction, and have never forgotten a […]
Words from the Syrinx
The Tui has a double voice box (syrinx) that allows a huge range of vocalization, sounds that are often beyond the human register. There are stories from early Maori times onwards, where tuis were taught to replicate speech. Read here for a little article on these beautiful birds which tell New Zealanders where they are. […]
