What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?― W.E.B. DuBois He died. In an assisted (sic) care (oxymoron) home (nope) facility/prison (yes). Homeless for a few years; he was a photographer; and his […]
Curious Cape Cod: The original Cape Cod canal?
EASTHAM I was spinning records with my DJ and UFO expert, Klaus Encounterz, when his crop circle klaxon sounded an alert. We ceased our def jams, checked the radar, and launched a drone over a nearby organic wheatgrass farm.
Images from above the scene showed bewildered horticulturalists pointing to the middle of a green field, where an odd pattern had been crisply etched. The drone flew higher, taking in the big picture, and the following message was revealed in the grass: Was there a canal on Cape Cod before the Cape Cod Canal?
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WELLFLEET I was chasing a runaway rototiller in the back garden when it veered into my rosemary patch, chewing up the fragrant herb with gleeful abandon. I waited until the sinister machine ran out of gas, then shinnied up a locust tree to survey the damage. Strangely, this message had been cut into the shrubs: Have you ever done a giant beach walk like Henry David Thoreau?
I jumped from the tree, threading the needle through the sunroof of the Curious Prius and we headed for Ballston Beach in Truro. Realizing I would need a two-car approach, I called my backup chauffeur, Fern DerBender, and told her to meet me at Ballston. She arrived behind the wheel of her trademark teal El Camino, cranking Deep Purple and smoking a large Topper cigar. Where to, toots? she asked.