Category Archives: Nature

Horseshoe Crabs And Us 2050

July 24, 2024 – 8:33 am

I have visions Not dream But visions Of the Future 2050 Sitting on the B38 bus Traveling down Myrtle Avenue__ Summertime No cars None More trees More flowers Vegetable gardens too. Everyone walking Riding bikes Less people than 2024 A lot less The rich escaped to the Moon To Mars We hear nothing from them […]

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The Longest Day Of The Year – Stonehenge – 2014

June 21, 2024 – 8:08 am

37,000 people gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the dawn of the longest day of the year. Police arrested a number of people for reefer, which the BBC referred to as ‘drugs’. I stood on my roof at dusk. Naked to the sun. No one else joined me, which is a good thing. Getting arrested for […]

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THE END OF RICE by Peter Nolan Smith

April 26, 2024 – 4:55 pm

Thailand has many superstitions. One concerns rice. Never joke while eating or else a ghost will steal your rice. The ghosts will have to wait, for this is the beginning of the rainy season and throughout the Kingdom aging farmers are planting rice. The current price for jasmine rice per tonne from the wholesalers is […]

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Going Up Country – Thai Style

April 26, 2024 – 8:49 am

Back in the 60s during their Woodstock concert Canned Heat had a small hit GOING UP COUNTRY. “Going up country, baby, do you want to come along?” After Altamont longhairs abandoned the rip-offs, bummers, and downers of the big cities to establish Aquarian communes in the hinterland offering free love, organic food, and reefer to […]

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Earth Day 2009

April 22, 2024 – 9:48 pm

I drank organic vodka in celebration of Earth Day. The mixer was organic ginger ale. Glass bottles. A glass glass. No plastic. It went well with my Happy Meal #3. Supposedly civilization started when hunter-gatherers discovered fermented fruits. One of them drank it. He survived and explained his out-of-the-body experience. The primitives understood that to […]

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