Earthquake
September 29, 2009
- I tuned into the evening news tonight, only to learn that earlier today there was an 8.0 to 8.3 earthquake in Samoa lasting several minutes, followed by a tsunami. Apparently, there have been deaths, but, as I write, the numbers are unknown. One account I read said there was a water surge of over two feet in Apia, the capital of the independent (i.e., non American) side. None of this is ...
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September 15, 2009
- Excerpted from "Earthquake Collage" the following is a collage of impressions, recollections, news items, poetry and facts regarding the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and its aftermath. Compiled shortly after the quake, this collage provides a series of images of what it was like to be there then. The photographs of downtown Santa Cruz after the quake are by the author. A portion of this ...
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September 7, 2009
- Visit to San Juan Bautista, CA, and the famous Mission (1797), a multi-arched adobe structure situated just above the San Andreas Fault. Featured prominently in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Friend we were with searched all over for the tower that had appeared in the movie... that tower, we later learned, had been built as part of the Vertigo set and was later torn down. Fascinated ...
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April 16, 2009
- Following the Oct. 17, 1989 San Francisco Bay Area earthquake, I started writing in rhyme—the stricter the form the better. That’s because I was scared, scared shitless and on behalf of my friends, neighbors and family, I wanted the world to come to order. “Settle down, world, settle down!” Fear was there big time, fear in all its glory. "Why not make a friend of fear? Why not make ...
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April 1, 2009
- I suppose I should engage in light-hearted banter this April Fool's Day, but fools conspire to foil my bubbly demeanor. Witness the purported threat of the Conficker worm, poised to strike this day, burrowing through PCs, harvesting user names and passwords and erasing hard disks.We all know what a con is, but what the hell is a ficker, aside from a domain name a web realtor hopes to sell for ...
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March 18, 2009
- Santa Cruz' Museum of Art & History @ the McPherson Center just published "Pathways to the Past, Adventures in Santa Cruz County History. Santa Cruz' written history goes back over 200 years and Santa Cruz History Journal Number 6 includes articles about early Pioneers like William Trevethan who sailed from Plymouth, England, in 1822. Journal Number 6 includes "Earthquake ...
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December 4, 2008
- Scrambled eggs and rocksYou can’t have eggs without salt. I’m too far from my predatory roots to enjoy the quick snap and slurp of a stolen shell. I need to scramble my eggs on a propane-fueled cook stove, scramble them just like the heat- and pressure-scrambled rocks around us. Back in La Mesa, we moved the salt and pepper from the picnic basket to our emergency earthquake supplies, ...
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July 30, 2008
- As I stood outside our home in Santa Monica yesterday after the earthquake, having apparently done exactly the opposite of what I was supposed to do, which is stay inside, find something heavy like a desk or a dining table, and crawl beneath it in case a rain of debris comes down on you ("Think air pockets," a friend said later), I realized that life in California really is more ...
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May 26, 2008
- All day, I've been thinking about the numbers of the Sichuan earthquake. Of the estimated 80,000 casualties,13,500 were children from low income families, dead in the rubble of their collapsed public schools. That's a whopping 16%. The parents are beginning to stage protests, demanding answers, but Communist cadres are attempting to quash their voices. The parents are told by officials to ...
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May 16, 2008
- I guess a big part of growing up is being honest to yourself when deciding what's good and what's right...Some how, between joining my family to send some money to relatives that are affected in the slightest way, and buying fancy computer upgrades, I came in the realization that these people need it, now. I guess when thousands of people lost their lives and millions of people lost their home, ...
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