Month: September 2010

Sometimes reality gets hijacked by an ugly gorilla. Nature is chaotic and dangerous. Don't worry! Its probably a man in a rubber suit.

I had a dream. It came on the couch after the ingestion of an inhuman quantity of a late summer salad I made out of a 1.5 LB yellow heirloom tomato, a hefty and rotund Bacon avocado (the alligator pear, the apple of winter), a not petite mango, and my aunt's basil... as well as… Continue reading Alligator Pear / The Apple of the Winter →

Stéphane Guisard is an optical engineer at the Very Large Telescope in Chile, where the skies are so dark that on a clear moonless night it is possible to see your shadow cast by the light of the Milky Way alone. He is also an astrophotographer. His website, Los Cielos de América, has images of… Continue reading Los Cielos de América →