Things I learned this weekend
It was Gertrude Stein who introduced Ernest Hemingway to “the violent theater of bullfighting.” Raymond Chandler, before he captured LA’s darker angels, was a failed oil company executive. ((Leland, Hip: The History))
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Heath Ledger Survey
I was puzzled by the range of reactions I heard from those around me yesterday to the death of actor Heath Ledger. So I’m conducting a survey. When you heard the news that Heath Ledger died, was your reaction: Who’s Heath Ledger? Wasn’t he that guy in that movie about those guys? OMG! Other (please …
Things I Have Seen
Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I’m working on a piece for the newspaper about riding a bike. At the risk of giving too much away, I’ll say simply that it’s about going to places and seeing things. Such as these things, seen today: ice: It’s been dry for a couple of weeks, but the concrete flood …
Back to the Blog, Back to the Bike
I woke up Sunday morning for the first time in year without thinking about what work I needed to do that day on the book. The manuscript sits in a stack on the shelf next to me. (They want it printed on paper in addition to being burned onto a CD! How quaint!) I took …
Fleck Feels Ready to Make His Mark
From the Guardian: ‘He is doing tremendously well and long may it continue. He’s in at the deep end, but he’s not out his depth. Some days he’s doing everything, scoring goals, playing passes and it’s great to see. It’s good experience for him right now being about the first team.’ HT Dave
Haberdashery
Died in a haberdashery accident.
On Colorado’s Climate
An interesting search string that brought a reader to Inkstain over the New Year’s holiday: colorado climate why does it change so much What a great question.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Long Shadow Edition
A piece I wrote in yesterday’s Albuquerque Journal about a new approach to maintaining the U.S. nuclear stockpile has triggered some thoughtful discussion at the Arms Control Wonk blog. See also some stuff on my Journal blog, and the usual crappy anonymous comments but a few good signed ones at the LANL blog.
Storm Death
Here’s a lazyweb question, the product of an afternoon at the office with entirely too much time on our hands. (Hey, it was this or writing about White Christmas. Again.) The “storm death toll” is a newsroom staple: At least 19 deaths were linked to the weekend-long blast of ice and windblown snow, which led …
A Christmas Miracle
And the angels came from on high, and bade Lissa go forth into that December morn and purchase luminaria bags, for the old bags were worn, or missing entirely. And lo, the angels suggested K-Mart, saying the Lord doth view Wal-Mart as the more evil of the two shopping options in our neighborhood. “But K-Mart …