I’m leaving the country just in the nick of time: across the street in the park, emanating from the woods, is an eerie, sci-fi sound… the coming of the cicadas. It sounds for all the world as if the giant, atomic ants from “Them” are making their way toward my house…
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Now boarding
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December 22, 2005
Stirred, not shaken
Just a little while ago, I was looking at today’s list of earthquakes, just in time to see that a 7.something earthquake had struck just out to sea north of San Francisco. My mind began connecting it with a [more...]
June 14, 2005
