November 20, 2006
Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen http://www.carlhiaasen.com/ is a novelist and columnist for The Miami Herald. His novels are populated by charaters who are hard to describe. But the casts work well. A Hiaasen novel is hard to put down.
Hiaasen seems to appreciate the irony of a captive exotic animal killing the bad guys. In Stormy Weather, an African lion eats a mobster (as the mobster is preparing to crucify his second victim...you have to read the story). And at the end of Sick Puppy, I'm not going to tell, because it's too good. So read it.
Hiaasen has a serious message to convey: the miserable mess that humankind has made of Florida. But you could name just about any state or place.
Take comfort. Nature wins.
I'm working on Strip Tease now.
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July 31, 2006
A new category
A good friend of mine once responded to my fretting about the fate of the earth by observing that the earth will survive. We might not. I've opened a new category, which I'll call 'Nature Wins'.
Here is an interesting link that might give us pause: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-latimesoceans1073006,0,478398.story
You know how an untended bit of paving will gradually give way to vegetation? Or how about the Mayan temples, gradually yielding to nature's forces (a few hundred years, or even a few thousand years, is not very long in earth terms)
We will probably be safe in claiming the title for the dumbest species to face extinction. We understand what we're doing, but we can't seem to control ourselves.
Maybe a 12-step process...
Then again, maybe there's an up side to this: we mine the methane and hydrogen sulfide and burn it to produce electric power.
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