August 2010 – Dogs and Bikes

Intrepid Dog

On Park Avenue

A young woman chauffeurs a basket-ed pup on the first Summer Saturday of 2010. Lafayette and Park Avenues temporarily turn into a car-free thoroughfare from the Brooklyn Bridge to 72nd St. to Central Park.

The car of the future today

It’s time for a new car. I’ve driven the old Pinto for nearly 44 years and at long last I’m rid of it. Gladiola and I made the decision a few days ago and last night, in the gloom and heat, I drove it to the Cliffs of Destruction. As the silvery moon rose between […]

The birthday Box

A made-up story. On the morning of his 60th birthday, Anvil Atkinson found beneath the newspaper on the doorstep a plain box with his name on it in the ancient language of calligraphy. He picked it up along with the newspaper, glancing at the headline, Eastern Seaboard Evacuation Continues. And then the subhead, Sea Level […]

Seventeen Things Delayed

I know we were going to list Seventeen Things you can do to Save the Environment today. Our researchers have been hard at work on that and had made a good deal of progress until at our round table meeting this morning, Stupid Tad pointed out that each simple solution was based on time travel, […]

Zombie environment

Can we talk about the end of the world for just one post? The UN global report has been released and it’s pretty grim. Grimmer than zombies (but arguably beneficial for zombies). Ultra grim. Here’s National Geographic’s story on the story. Here’s an excerpt from the Washington Post’s story. “The U.N. report ‘means that […]

Zombie children

Chapter 2.2 My phone vibrates in my jacket pocket. It’s a familiar number but I don’t remember whose it is. I don’t answer calls unless I’m certain about them and I hold the phone through three vibrations before answering. “This is Norm.” “Hey, it’s me,” Golding says as if I’ve been eagerly awaiting his call, […]

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