So long, and thanks for all the fish
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Boy Scout Camp
Camp Sebring was a huge Boy Scout camp in South Florida when I was a kid. It is closed now. We would all pile into a car at the tail end of a Florida East Coast Railroad train (away from the grown up passengers of course!) for the trip there. I do not remember how […]
Hybrid Water Heaters – One of the quickest, easiest, cheapest and most effective retrofits you can make to your home to fight Climate Change
Many of you know I was one of the founders of Earth Day in 1970. No, I did not create it, but by then I had gained note as an environmental activist. They wanted that first celebration to occur in an many cities as possible. They recruited me to have a celebration in Miami. We […]
Rochester
Thanks to my father growing up our house was living in a science library. I had my own chemistry lab which led to being a child science prodigy. Many of the thing I did came about due to the actions and decisions of parents and teachers, not by me. I […]
Gamble Rogers
While revising this story I realized it repeats things that are shared in other posts, but I felt I should leave it in as not everyone is reading every post (There are over 50 now! 😊). One of my most cherished relationships with a folk singer was with Gamble Rogers. I first heard him perform […]
Travels with Phil Five – The Earth Room
Yep, just what it says! In Soho in lower Manhattan is a floor of an office building filled with dirt. There is even an art foundation to maintain this most unusual Urban Sculpture. One of the trippy little things I take people to in New York City. Enjoy! Read more here: Wikipedia
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus
I have been accused of being a soppy sentimentalist. As cynical as I am about so many things, there are some things that are just nice! This is one of the most famous editorials ever written. It was in 1897 in the New York Sun. I saw this reproduction of it in 1988. It has […]
Travels with Phil Four: Carousels
Carousels, Merry-Go-Rounds, call them what you will, they are FUN! I have taken my grandkids to the one in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The woman I recently lived with for ten years took me to the one on Martha’s Vineyard Island, and it had the Brass Rings!! Her name was Martha also. Her […]
Why do I say I’m a Liberal?
When someone asks my politics, I say I am an Anarcho-Syndicalist. What? I then send them to 8 minutes and 30 seconds into Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when Graham Chapman on his Hobby Horse as King Arthur asks the peasants: “Who lives in yonder castle?” And they answer. I must insert some movie […]
Richard M Nixon & National Health Care
Nixon was the ultimate Oedipal figure in American politics. He did so many good things, but his pride led to his downfall. He negotiated SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) with Brezhnev, and persuaded the Senate to ratify it, the first reduction of nuclear arms in history. He signed the Clean Air, Clean Water and […]