road by luck
I’d blown a transmission one spring and was stuck in what most folk would describe as to hell and gone. In this case my hell was located on the northernmost outskirts of Phoenix. Took a space in a RV park.
Danatheone
It’s a comedy about great vegan food, natural wine, sailing and sourcing news…
doggie in the window
In case you didn’t know I’ll clue you in. The show is over when the dog’s routine is over.
willful gardening
Some days it is our front yard other days it is the backyard, the worst are when it is both.
ARTIST AMBASSADORS
Having trouble keeping up pilgrim? No worries because it’s nothing but worry all the time about everything from now on. I have a passing interest in Greenland, two in fact. One is as a flyover space to cast white out dreams upon while the other is following along as an expeditionary scientific research vessel samples various qualities of ice and water in her fjords.
the Canadian Resistance
Canadian Resistance soldiers will lure the libidinous soldiers into their lair where before any pleasure they are ladled heaps upon heaps of artery clogging poutine eaten with the fattest fried potato fries ever to be found.
for the win—
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for the win—
I have always preferred an elegant solution. A good fix in my book is transactional and balanced— it is win-win. In the winner take all world the win-win model doesn’t pay enough. Life in Silicon Valley has veered off the tracks and this digitally enhanced monster has escaped from its cage to come prey for our last ounce of life-juice. …
wind turbine service repairman
Wind turbine service technician is one of the more abundant energy transitions jobs. You’ll need to be capable of dealing with heights, you will need to be physically fit, but otherwise it is a job well within the range of most of our workforce. The future is bright in this field where the career path in the coal industry is limited.
https://danasmith.com/2025/02/12/wind-turbine-service-repairman/
climate comedy—
I had to begin by proving that there was a plausible path to writing a climate change comedy. Maybe if I could find the funny this type of script could attract the attention of the executive producers in the movie industry. Symbol of hope Finding the funny is where it begins. Weather related events that steal the headlines are on the upswing.
Into the Palisades/Altadena Future
There have been red flag warnings in some part of Southern California for 14 of the last 17 days. The stretch started January 7, the day the Palisades and Eaton Fires started. The dangerous conditions continue to pose a threat to our nation’s second largest city. The topography of Los Angeles is complex. The two biggest mountain ranges— San Gabriel Mountains and Santa Monica Mountains surround densely populated valleys.
https://danasmith.com/2025/01/29/into-the-palisades-altadena-future/
America’s natural disaster problem
Obstacles large and small block progress. Agreement is never simple or easy. Capitalism, corporations and legacy carbon-based industries are resisting.
https://danasmith.com/2025/01/27/americas-natural-disaster-problem/
Saving Ourselves—
Scale the business— and there is no bigger business than home ownership. That is not true of course but there is a kernel of reality attached to the single best way for an ordinary homeowner to build wealth. Obstacles in the way include rising insurance premiums, higher mortgage rates, shortage of properties which feeds into higher prices, and this climate changing world where natural disasters strike with increasing frequency and ferocity.
California Climate Migration
It’s on— millions of leafy-lane owning California homeowners are looking around their neighborhoods this morning and many do not like what they see. I am a climate-change-denying- it can’t happen here- Northern California homeowner. I was until Wednesday. The massive wildfires in Los Angeles can’t happen up here. We still get rain, our Diablo’s ( dry hot winds from the Great Basin blowing westward toward San Francisco Bay Area) are too…
https://danasmith.com/2025/01/11/california-climate-migration/
Hollywood Hills Wildfire
Hollywood Hills fire threatens the Sunset Strip. Four friends have fled LA. Two went south to Ensenada, two to Palm Springs where I have arrived for the week. The friends here both grew up in LA, they know every inch of the place, every mood, every era, every nook and cranny. Robbie said he has never experienced as powerful a windstorm.
Pacific Palisades Conflagration
Wildfire has struck Los Angeles again. Squeezed between Malibu to the north and Santa Monica to the south is the Pacific Palisades. Years ago, I spent time in nearby Brentwood. My hosts had searched for some years and when this hillside home came on the market, they packed up their house in Belair for proximity to the cool ocean air and the views.
https://danasmith.com/2025/01/08/pacific-palisades-conflagration/
I’m Still Here
Out with the Old First film of the Palm Springs Film Festival— I’m Still Here. Fernanda Torres received Best Actress Award at Golden Globes this week and her director Walter Salles both from Brazil were on stage after the screening to discuss. This an ambitious film dealing with Brazil’s dictatorship arresting and murdering Torres husband. Film set in 1971 Rio de Janeiro.
Arctic circle squared—
You drive from Vancouver north to Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal. You’ll jump across the Strait of Georgia to Vancouver Island then more north by van some hundreds of miles to Port Hardy where you will board another ferry for the 18-hour passage further north to Prince Rupert. By all accounts the Inside Passage transits some of the most rugged mountainous landscape to be found in any corner of Canada.
The Moral minority
—the nation has been shattered and the rich fucks might as well grab their billions in spoils before the low brow looters show up to grab their new TV’s.
Roll of the Nation’s Dice—
Democrats are proposing we do something about day care, climate, home ownership and help small businesses get off the ground. These policy proposals have the Republican Party ready to man the barricades.
Purposeful Heart Energy—
My tendency is to focus on the love struck. Because I enjoy characters struggling with problems their emotions cause.
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