What’s Better Than Roses on Your Piano?
truly traditional roses -- the garden-variety, only five-petaled kind -- are still pretty sexy Answer? Tulips on your organ….! Gotta love florist humor — that 3:00 a.m., two-inch stack of bouquet...
View ArticleGetting hitched….to the Universe
If you don’t know the John Muir quote “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,” from his 1911 book, My First Summer in the Sierra, you’re not...
View ArticleFlower Metal
The limitless sub-genres of heavy metal are amusing and mildly ridiculous. I love creative adjectives as much as the next wordy writer, and many of the distinctions are totally valid, but the ceaseless...
View ArticleDecibel Deconstruct
I resisted subscribing to a magazine devoted to metal for a long time. It just seemed too conscious a badge of fandom, and felt reminiscent of 4th grade when Laura Lyons and I would trade Teen Bop!...
View ArticleThe Sierra Nevada: Don’t Call Them Bugs
Walking down the north side of Highway 49, I joyously realized a pile of nuts awaited from my otherwise drained butter pecan milkshake. I smiled at my unexpected good fortune, and flung off the lid to...
View ArticleLove: Nature, Sex, Guitar Goddess
I heart the wilderness. Having recently been exclusively, blissfully in the wilderness for a full two weeks, upon return I’ve been feeling uncharacteristically unimpressed by the natural world. My...
View ArticleConsume Rhymes with Doom
Visualize, in your best meditative trance, your home filled with all the commodities you consume everyday, as if those convenient collections euphemized as “landfills” did not exist. And not just the...
View ArticleCassiope, precious
There are lots of beautiful wildflowers along the John Muir Trail. It’s a wilderness that requires a permit for humans to enter, and there was heavy duty snowfall into mid-June this year. So of course...
View ArticleGringas are Definitely Not Native
unknown species all over Costa Rica. check out the pink, petal-like "bracts" (modified leaves) and the tiny star-shaped flowers. Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder. Yep, just started this post with a...
View ArticlePhyte Club Vacation
Oh, wouldn’t it be rad if this post were announcing a trip to, say, Maryland for the Death Fest, or Clissón for Hellfest, or to Germany for Wacken Open Air? Sign up here, for a tour of the United...
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