August 18 – 22
We reduxed a post by our beloved ex-LWONian, Tom Hayden, about all the shiny new multiplexing gadgets he’s bought and broken. Turns out the old stupid crap technology? it never breaks, it always works, it stays your friend.
Helen bought an ice cream maker as a present but the recipient of the present moved out and took the ice cream maker along. Helen does the only possible thing: first makes one last batch of mint-chocolate chip ice cream with real mint that tastes like summer. Then she considers, Shall I just buy my own ice cream maker?
Guest Adam Ganz, a playwright, wrote a play about the Nobel chemist, Dorothy Hodgkin, and her student, the politician Margaret Thatcher. The two remained friends; they both saw patterns but opposite ones, and Ganz sees a pattern in their patterns.
Jessa’s grandfather made oil-burning furnaces. His granddaughter worries about peak oil, fracking, price crashes, economics, and human nature. She’s not excessively hopeful about any of them, particularly the latter.
Cameron’s California ocean is warm this year, warm enough for unusual ocean life to come close to shore, warm enough for Cameron herself to join them, floating between the salt waves like a sunfish.