Wednesday, October 15, 2003

I almost forgot! Check out all our neat Port Watson gear at Cafe Press!

This article is fun:

Trigger Happy
Family fun at the machine-gun range.

BY MARK YOST

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Now back to nominally more important matters...Ben and I are doing a radio interview on Wednesday the 15th at 3:00 pm Eastern time, on Ernie Hancock's show. We'll be talking about the Port Watson Project. You can listen to the webcast at: http://www.ernesthancock.com/
It's a 50,000 watt station in Phoenix, AZ. KFNX 1100 AM

Very strange doings from Mark and Carla, the couple who moved to Rarotonga in the South Pacific in June. They've had a story published in The LA Weekly every so often. In the next-to-last installment, their youngest daughter got pneumonia, and the story ended with their taking her to a hospital. I wrote Mark and found out that she eventually responded to antibiotics, but it seemed like a nasty trick to play on your readers, especially since the next installment didn't talk about the illness at all. Instead, now it appears that after reading a newspaper article about a flu epidemic, the fam is being uprooted and moved to an as yet undisclosed location. Mark and Carla are island shopping and don't like what they see. They're complaining about the quality of the restaurants and the art galleries, for chrissakes! The islands they're looking at have populations of 8500-9500. It's looking like Mark and Carla are simply too suburbanite to live outside of LA...tragic. Ben and I have lived on an island with a population of, uh, four. If that. I think the optimal population in any place is about 1500, but that's just from my own experience and may have no relation to reality as YOU know it. Bocas Del Toro has about 3500 people in the entire region, which includes over 100 islands of various sizes, and a considerable amount of mainland too.

This headline really spoke to me this morning:

Arctic Squirrels Could Yield Medical Breakthroughs

I noticed a new billboard with the slogan: "When the Solution is Simple, God is Answering" that seems as though it should end with "When Things Are Tough and Tricky, You're on Your Own Baby!" or "When Things are Complex, Hire a Good Attorney...."

Yesterday I did some brewing, made some amber ale. It's called Old Obsequious Ale and the label looks like this:

Accept it on bended knee
Norton X Brewery, MMIII, Don't drink the Yeast!
Is the caption. More later...