It's raining in Los Angeles, although not as much as it has been in Northern California -- I'm waiting to hear how those levees in the California Delta, the ones that protect farms, homes and L.A.'s water supply, hold up in the deluge. Speaking of holding up: I'm holed up in the house sick with the flu. How did this happen? I got a flu shot! My brother came home sick from London -- is the British virus that much different from the stateside one?
Anyway, I'm spending the day listening to Juana Molina and moping because I'm missing all the New Year's Eve Weekend parties. And I'm catching up on reading the SEJ list and blogs I missed over the holidays. I found David Roberts' great post on Gristmill, "Ted Stevens, Crybaby" -- a solid update on ANWR and some worthy venting, too; and this about the FBI investigating Pombo on Kit Stolz's A Change in the Wind. The post links to a story I missed from the L.A. Times and also includes some good analysis from Kit, including a coversation he has with a guy from FSEE who says the salad days for the right-wing planet wreckers are drawing to a close. If that's true: Yay.
I also found Kit's Meme of Four, following Terry Teachout--->New Yorker music crtic (and one of my favorite writers, period) Alex Ross. So, hey, what the hell -- I did one myself. I cut out the four TV shows, though, because I don't have a television to watch. Or, rather, I have a television, but no cable, and as I live in a canyon, that's means no television.
(I do watch The Daily Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm on DVD.)
Four jobs you've had in your life: pianist for a traveling children's theater, singer/dancer/actor in a Toronto cabaret show of questionable merit and morals, nursing home aide, chemical engineering department proofreader.
Four places you've lived: Minneapolis, New York, Toronto, Rennes
Four movies you could watch over and over: Wings of Desire, Groundhog Day, The Passenger, Chinatown
Four places you've been on vacation: Cape Town, Prague, Windhoek, Quepos
Four websites you visit daily: BoingBoing, Metafilter, Grist(mill), the Society of Environmental Journalists' Daily Environmental News
Four of your favorite foods: tempeh, La Brea Bakery granola, udon from SueHiro in Little Tokyo, Real Food Daily's seitan tacos
Four places you'd rather be: riding horses on the beach in Manuel Antonio; canoeing with my friends Lisa and/or Catherine in the Boundary Waters/Quetico, drinking $15/glass wine with Lisa on a snowy afternoon somewhere in Manhattan or Brooklyn; sitting around the morning after an enchanted hike yakking with my full moon squad, preferably at Garth's place in the mountains above Joshua Tree.
Happy New Year.
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