Die Bar heisst Thalassa, das Bier, auf das ich warte, Death and Taxes, und das Stück ist die Bohemian Rhapsody. Die Musik ist deutlich zu laut eingestellt, vermutlich um den Absatz von Tod und Steuern anzukurbeln, und der Bass wummert in meiner Magengrube, während ich auf mein Bier warte. Hinter der Bar, im Zweimeterabstand, sind […]
I almost didn’t buy this when I saw it at the local Salvation Army store. Who needs another book on Yosemite, sporting pretty pictures of waterfalls and sunsets? But as it turns out, Brower not only knows many of the key players of Yosemite’s recent cultural and natural history firsthand, he also writes engagingly and […]
The beginning of this movie is excrutiating. We observe the inner workings of a dysfunctional family, partly through the perspective of the suicidal academic uncle, and the acting and writing is excellent enough to make the pain of what is going on palpable. There also are funny jokes, made more poignant by the underlying darkness, […]
While this book has plenty of interesting information on mainly fox and gray squirrels, it could have been written more with the lay reader in mind. That’s not to say that it is too hard or complex, for it is surprising how little complexities seem worth relating, but rather that it reads in places like […]