new development

Look past the beautiful mountain from the doorway.

Look toward the New Development.

You can not see it from the doorway --

Long to go there.

You want to see a living place sheltered by walls and gates.

One day,  drive through the New Development.

Be shocked by its emptiness,

its high walls with new streets far beneath,

barren, utterly new, no grass yet,

and everything shades of the same red brown,

even the houses and the roofs of the houses.

Who lives here?

One open garage, one lit living room,

and on a TV, the Sicilian volcano --

scary fertile hot lava beds look more hospitable than the pitiful future gardens

of the New Development.

Drive home (it's so close).

Look past the beautiful mountain, scarred by the New Development.

Look toward the walls and gates that you can not see.

It seemed like another planet, didn't it,

unearthly, ugly, and unnatural.

You will long to go there again.

by H.A. Krein

Adam (a first) Lambert (a sacrifice) is a god come to teach us about our relationship with Nature.

Things are looking up.

Sid Laverents "Multiple SIDosis"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cRZmvr-2QM  

don't know if yous saw the obituary the other day, but above is a link to his best-loved film.  

the intro sets it up so you can appreciate his technical achievement; stick with it to the fun part. 




here is the link to his obit (he was 100 years old):

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sid-laverents13-2009may13,0,4848753,full.story  

and this obit which is a bit better:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/arts/17laverents.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=sid%20laverents&st=cse

To me he is the artist with one hundred per cent inspiration AND one hundred per cent perspiration -- work that's not play make jack and jill dull. 

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43571/title/Honing_the_Hubble_constant

Revised value supports finding that dark energy does not vary with time

Dark energy is a mysterious repulsive force that causes the universe to expand at an increasing rate.

The question of whether or not dark energy varies with time has profound significance for the fate of the universe. For instance, if the stuff grows stronger with time — akin to stepping on the cosmic accelerator — the entire universe could end in a Big Rip, with every last atom torn asunder. A constant dark energy would end in a lonely universe, with every galaxy fleeing from each other so rapidly that a Milky Way astronomer some 30 billion years from now would look out and see nothing beyond our galaxy’s own stars. If dark energy drops to zero, the universe might end in a Big Crunch, with gravity’s tug creating a giant implosion.

-- Ron Cowen