cloning: the next generation?

Thanks to Nikki for sending this link… http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/01/15/fda.cloning/index.html To summarize, the FDA has released a 968-page document saying that it finds no risks in consuming meat from cloned cows, pigs or goats or milk from cloned cows and their offspring. The FDA decided it needed more information to determine the safety of meat and milk … Read more

Miami Mangrove

Well, in the end, we didn’t make it to too many places in Miami. As we started to embark into the world, Paul got an emergency text, so we drove straight to Cineworks, where they didn’t actually need him, but told him they might, so he decided to hang out until his appointment, but then, … Read more

Clinton Hotel

According to the coffee table book in our hotel room, our hotel has “a cutting edge design concept unlike any other in South Beach” “Our famous French designer, Eric Raffy, has created a fun, one-of-a-kind playground and hideaway that celebrate South Beach’s Art Deco Heritage.” Despite his fame and Frenchness I am largely unfamiliar with … Read more

Miami

My first trip to Miami will be a short one, book-ended by long drives! Paul has color correction to do here (that’s post-production for his Coke film–not some Michael Jackson thing), and I’m tagging along so I don’t leave Florida without ever having been to the big city. So we drove down yesterday, 3pm-11pm, (stopping … Read more

All My Almonds, I Will Send to You (Sterilized)

“Research conducted at the University of California at Davis showed that a high-fat diet rich in whole almonds reduced the colon cancer risk in rats chemically treated to reduce this cancer. Other research indicated that phytochemicals in almonds inhibit tumor cell growth in culture. Specifically, the board notes, two flavonoid phytochemicals, known as quercetin and … Read more

Happy 2008, Y’all!

What do I want to do this year? Lot’s of stuff, like write and revise things–i’m particularly keen on revising because if I got my pieces into a condition I was truly happy with, I could recycle piles of workshop notes I have been saving for three years…I’m talking reams of paper, folks. And that … Read more

Here I Am

12/29/07 At my office at school on the Saturday between Christmas and New Years — possibly the only body in the building (if this were a sci-fi universe and someone were scanning for life signs, I’d be the only blinking red dot on screen displaying the schematic of the Williams building). I came here to … Read more

Here I am

At my office at school on the Saturday between Christmas and New Years, possibly the only body in the building (if this were a sci-fi universe and someone were scanning for life signs, might would be the only blinking red dot on screen displaying the schematic of the Williams building.) I came to school to … Read more

I’m Back

I read about four pages of one book, and wrote maybe 400 words one morning…but then, I read the newspaper each morning, which I don’t get here at home, and I made chocolate truffles out of chocolate chips and whipping cream. And I won two our of four games of Rummikub (my mom won the … Read more