I got some nice mail about this bit, so I’ve recorded it. The music is Nanci Griffith, Morning Song for Sally, off Other Voices, Other Rooms. The birdsong is from a cool site called Freesound where there’s loads of stuff for aspiring podcasters and audio nerds to use in their work.
It’s been a while since I’ve made one of these, I forgot, it’s fun.
[tags]podcast, Husum, audio postcard[/tags]… continued…
If you were on 15th at mid-day yesterday, you might have caught a little live comedy. On the corner outside Lladro, an earnest young man stood by a folding table with a picture of Al Gore sporting a Pinocchio nose. The fresh-faced lad was from the Larouche campaign and hoping to find sympathetic ears – and maybe dollars – for his cause. The issue – straight from his mouth as I walked by – “Human beings are essentially good!… continued…
Disclaimer: I met Mark Zoller at the Seattle Travel Show. When I told him I write for Snowshoe Magazine, he invited me up to spend some time in the area, to go rafting, snowshoeing with a local guide, and to stay at a regional B&B. I’ll have a story going out in the next issue of Snowshoe Magazine – here are a few things that won’t make the cut.
Chatting with the guides at Zoller’s
Zoller’s runs rafting trips year round.… continued…
Yeah, Al Gore wants you to turn off your air-conditioning, go carbon neutral, use those awful fluorescent bulbs, drive a Prius, etc. etc. amen. Yeah. We get that, thanks, Al. We get that the whole global warming thing means maybe we should not burn through a whole lot of fuel to get across the planet or across town. We think polar bear cubs are cute and we totally dig snow sports. We get it.
But there’s something else to think about when it comes to giving up oil: the effect oil production has on societies at the source.… continued…
