A man in Salinas, California named John Cerney creates his own genre of billboard-sized art in fields throughout the Imperial Valley. He doesn’t like to display his creations, gigantic realistic photographs mounted on plywood, indoors. He would say no to even the inside of cavernous MassMOCA, in North Adams. No, […]

Don’t you hate these? This just about sums it all up, doesn’t it? 

My house in the snow in January, 2005, in South Deerfield, MA.  

Last night on PBS Fidel Castro was in the spotlight. Footage included Castro’s embracing of the Soviet Union, the bearded one leaning over a conference table to light Breznev’s cigarette. In 1972, Castro set one of his many impossible goals for the young communist nation. First he wanted to have […]

My neighbor used to have a boat. He loved this little sticker that was on the back of the boat. “I love that guy,” he said. The nugget below is from boingboing.net Folkloric history of those “Calvin peeing” car stickers. This site explores the evolution of those annoying and ubiquitous […]

Outside GoNOMAD’s office on a Monday morning January 2005. Ready to start the week. 

Got into the office early today, so I could write some blog and catch up on the weekend’s email. What a trove of treasure awaits me here, every single day. Katherine Tanney, who wrote a piece in the Times Magazine that I admired here, gave me kudos on my taste […]

Nuclear power is set to make a comeback. To some hardcore Greens, this is good news. One longtime trustee of Friends of the Earth, Hugh Montefiore, has stated that he believes the solution to global warming is to make more use of nuclear energy. Ditto for Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, […]