A Lunchtime Haiku: Piece of rosemary Lodged in the back of my throat A fragrant menace

I'm not sure how well served we are by hurricane aftermath coverage that focuses on the small minority of able-bodied people who refused to evacuate. (As distinct from people who genuinely couldn't.)

www.theguardian.com/books/live/2...

South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel prize in literature – follow live

Author, known for her acclaimed work The Vegetarian, honoured for her ‘intense prose that confronts historical traumas’

They're doing this to James Spann, too...

ECclancyny.bsky.socialOct 10, 2024 1:20am

Vitriol is being directed at meteorologists. “I’ve been doing this for 46 years and it’s never been like this,” says Alabama meteorologist James Spann. He says he’s been “inundated” with misinformation and threatening messages like “Stop lying about the government controlling the weather or else.”

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online.

I don't know about the rest of me, but my ears are in Brazil. youtu.be/pOZxkhdeTXc?...

Novos Baianos - Brasil Pandeiro (Acabou Chorare) [Brazilian Music]

YouTube video by Brazilian Music by Som Livre

I do think we are transitioning from an age in which people say climate change doesn't exist to one in which they say, "Okay, something needs to be done about it, but not that. Or that. Or that."

Also some canny agriscience: www.npr.org/sections/the...

The flavor makeover Brussels sprouts alone received is mind-boggling. If you told six-year-old me that I'd actively crave them one day, you might have gotten a few lobbed at your face.

Well damn, Louise Erdrich: www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/22/l...

Greta Garbo Stiller used to spend days hiding under furniture. Now she'll tap you mercilessly until you give her the attention she deserves.