The Blue Planet (2001)
"...Whoa!...Wow!...WOW!...Holy shit!...WOW!!!..." (my wife and I watching the first episode of Sir David Attenborough's "The Blue Planet" tonight)
Hot Soak, Dead Hog
My wife gave me my belated birthday present - a long weekend in Desert Hot Springs. All this time in Los Angeles and I had never been to Palm Springs,…
Cutting Hare – Reprise
For those of you who missed the ruckus over my 8/5/2005 post about the Cutting Hare (the only venomous member of the rabbit family), I here re-post in full the…
Ichthyosaurs Feeding
I offer you the only - I feel quite confident in saying this - the only poem in existence about a pod of feeding Ichthyosauri. It appears in the Aug./Sept.…
Lepus californicus
Normally I wouldn't work on a Sunday, because when you work on a Sunday, God comes and burns down your house. But my conscience, my burning, burning conscience, searing, burning,…
Brush Hare (Lepus saurensis)
Alright, alright.I am forced to confess - pressured by great public outrage - that there is no such thing as the Lepus lupus, the Cutting Hare, aka the Wolf Hare.…
Cutting Hare (Lepus lupus)
Readers know that I am fascinated by the natural world. My wife and I can hardly be asked to dinner without steering the conversation toward the brilliance of David Attenborough's…
10 Films About Scientists
Inspired by the discussion "Weird Science..." taking place over at The Screenwriting Life, I have compiled a list of... 10 MOTION PICTURES FEATURING SCIENTIST PROTAGONISTS (I've also indicated whether main…