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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Do not wait
Via Nobody Knows Anything, advice for doing anything creative:
Do not wait till you are sure that you know what you are doing.
The attribution is to Ben Cameron, formerly with Theatre Communications Group, quoted in a comment thread.
Granite kissed
Stone masons are scribing a quotation from Walt Whitman’s “The Wound Dresser” into the Q Street N.W. entrance of the Dupont Circle Metro station. The complete stanza reads:
Thus in silence, in dream’s projections,
Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hos-
pitals;
The hurt and the wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
I sit by the restless all the dark night—some are so
young;
Some suffer so much—I recall the experience sweet
and sad;
(Many a soldier’s loving arms about this neck have
cross’d and rested,
Many a soldier’s kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
Update: Via a DCist comment thread, WMATA’s press release on the project.
Some ink
Our ever-tidy director Michael has linked, scanned, and otherwise organized all the press coverage for Never the Sinner into one handy page.
The right words in the right order
Happy 70th, Sir Tom.
Upcoming: 3
Andy Brownstein and Holly Twyford will appear in The Second Shepherds’ Play, one of the medieval Wakefield Mystery Plays, at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 12 December through 30 December.
Car!
Get your spaldeen and meet me on the stoop: Timothy Williams and Cassi Feldman find a few kids still playing street games.
Last year in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, 58-year-old Delores Hadden Smith organized a street festival at the Gowanus Houses and had adults teach children games with candy-coated names that sounded like the made-up concoctions they were.
There was red devil; box ball; bluebird, bluebird through my window; hot peas and butter; a variation of ring-a-levio called cocolevio; steal the bacon; look who’s here punch-a-nella; knockout; and duck duck goose.
Market signals
Katherine Ellison looks at today’s carbon offset market. The upshot: offsets are helpful (though there are skeptics when it comes to forestry offsets), but you may not be getting what you pay for.
I returned to Stanford’s Schneider to ask what kinds of offsets he might buy. “It’s legitimate to put windmills in if you displace fossil-fuel power,” he said. “It’s legitimate to put coal emissions underground if you could figure out how to make that permanent. Financing a gas plant in India if they were going to put in coal would also be good.” The key with all of these is they reduce carbon emissions at their source.
