Hundred Mountain

A new tool in the battle against excessive exuberance and consistently chirpy people.

This is flat out lovely and terrible, when you think about it, helped by the fact that it stars Mother Nature in a ferocious mood. The song is a solo piece by Sigur Ros’s lead singer, Jónsi Birgisson. The song is called “Kolnidur.”

Here’s an exercise to get the mental muscles moving in the AM. Take a look at this thoroughly delightful, very short and genuinely sweet video. Then imagine – interpolating and injecting Sarah Palin’s vapid, vitriolic, look-at-me, Know Nothing, wolf-hunting-from-helicopters-global-warming-denying-wink-wink-world view into the mix. That is to say, into the mix of programs on the Discovery [...]

Help desk support back in the Middle Ages soon after books were introduced, taking over from scrolls. Too funny.

A video interview I did with West Virginia Paul Corbit Brown, on his work among the street kids orphaned by the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Paul is one of the angels of Appalachia.