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- April 07
- Bio
- Danny Bloom is a global citizen who helped midwife, er, midhusband, Jim Laughter's new cli fi novel titled POLAR CITY RED, now for sale worldwide, google the title to find ordering info. In the distant future—some say the near future—North America, northern Asia and Europe will see millions of climate refugees from southern lands trekking northward, and the entire Lower 48 might be under threat from the devastating impacts of “climate chaos” —from rising sea levels to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and shelter.
Polar City Red is set in an imagined Alaska in the year 2075. But it could just as well be Tokyo or Oslo or Berlin. Global warming is borderless, and so are our fears.
“A thought experiment that might prod people out of their comfort zone on climate.” —New York Times
“Planning a good retreat is always a good measure of generalship. The retreat will be toward the poles.” —New York Times
“We cannot regard the future of the civilized world in the same way as we see our personal futures. The planet may have already passed the tipping point on global warming. Is it already too late? Are the well-intentioned preservation campaigns just feel-good window dressing?” —James Lovelock, CBE, FRS, author of Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (2000)
“We’re seeing the collapse of the Arctic sea ice. This year (2011) alone, planet Earth lost an area of Arctic sea ice twice the size of British Columbia. The impact on the entire global climate system will be enormous—the Arctic sea ice is the canary in the coal mine, and the canary is almost dead.” —Dr. Michael Byers, Professor of Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia
MY RECENT POSTS
- Jim Laughter, author of POLAR
CITY RED, 'cli fi' novel
May 11, 2012 11:49PM - David Mitchell Fail: Raise a
Laugh from Anne Frank's Ghost?
April 20, 2012 04:34AM - A Second 'Open Letter' to
Ricky Gervais and Karl
Pilkington
April 20, 2012 04:28AM - A Second 'Open Letter' to
Ricky Gervais and Karl
Pilkington
April 19, 2012 09:16PM - Ricky Gervais owes Anne Frank
a big fat apology
April 18, 2012 09:00AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Russell Howard's way of
looking at the subject is
perhaps the
simplest:
"The…”
April 20, 2012 04:42AM - “A Second ''Open Letter''
to Ricky Gervais and
Karl
Pilkington”
April 19, 2012 09:17PM - “http://www.sdjewishworld
.com/2012/04/14/open-letter-to
-ricky-gervais-and-karl-pil
230;”
April 14, 2012 10:03PM - “RIP, Mike Wallace. But
there's another part of Mike
Wallace's
life that needs
exa…”
April 14, 2012 09:58PM - “great story, you are a
writer born! bravo
--
and this follow
up
-mike-wallace-faux
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April 14, 2012 09:57PM
Danbloom's Links
Let's Stop Pretending a Star on the 'Walk of Fame' Is Real
Full title is: "Let's Stop Pretending Getting a Star on the Walk of Fame Is a Real" and it's googable now at Google.com, and it's bound to raise some eyebrows here and there, pro and con. Your POV?
Let's Stop Pretending Getting a Star on the Walk of Fame Is… Read full post »
Those funny, quirky news videos from Taiwan panned
'Truthiness a la Taiwan' called into question by unsigned editorial in Taiwan's most prestigious English newspaper
-- Does Jimmy Lai lie?
TAIPEI -- The Taiwanese news animation shop responsible for the
animated Tiger
Woods car crash video and other "news-in-motion" gems has been
slowly
reinventing the n… Read full post »
Christmas Poem About Morano, Watts, Hannity, Limbaugh
''GRAND ILLUSIONS: A Christmas Poem for 2010''
- by Daniel Halevi Bloom (1949-2032_
Gather round my friends, it's time
I've just about reached the end o' the line
The ride's been good, wonderfull, great!
and while it's time, it's not too late
to tell you all, with all my heart:
...no regrets," je n… Read full post »
Open Kimono saga continues, safe for work for now!
Bruce Watson tells me:
As political correctness working its way into contemporary language, business jargon is one of the last bastions of old-fashioned, rough and tumble crudity. This, after all, is the language of intense competitors, who often pride themselves on their unvarnished, brutal… Read full post »
Rebirth Day as name for 9-11 observances in future?
Floating an idea:
whose time has come: ?
let's call 9-11 day in future years as REBIRTH DAY in the USA, wtih appropriate and solemn, yet forward-looking observances held nationwide in memory of those who died on September 11, 2001. GOOD IDEA? Are other names floating out there? What names?… Read full post »
Rock and roll in Taiwan!
A rock pop song in Taiwanese....by Wu Bai band, commercial for local store chain:
Famous "Desiderta" poem in public domain, no copyright!
Shock news: there is no copyright for the famous Desiderata! Anyone can make a poster or song of it and keep the profits. See the hundreds of YouTube videos now. And Les Crane was sued in 1970s for making CD, will he get money back now? Legal eagles want to know.… Read full post »
Beloved Dead, a poem for peace in 1940, by Max Erhmann
Beloved Dead, a poem for peace in 1940, by Max Erhmann, author of the Desiderata (1927)
Before you read this, think VIETNAM, IRAQ, AFGANISTAN,
RWANDA, DARFUR
CONGO, 911
"Let nations cease this begging in prayer for peace
As long as one nation is savage, all must remain savage
We humans are not fallen go… Read full post »
"The Beloved Dead", a poem for peace by Desiderata man Max E
Beloved Dead, a poem for peace in 1940, by Max Erhmann, author of the Desiderata (1927)
<i>Before you read this, think VIETNAM, IRAQ, AFGANISTAN,
RWANDA, DARFUR
CONGO, 911</i>
<b>"Let nations cease this begging in prayer for peace
As long as one nation is savage, all must remain savag… Read full post »
A Desiderata for the Digital Age: DIGIRATA
and remember what peace there may be in unplugging.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons online and never never flame others or engage
in any kind of cyberbullying or cyberstalking.
Key in your truths quietly and clearl/…
The pros and cons of reading on screens
As digital advances continue to transform the global media world day by day, a Taiwanese company, E Ink Holdings, has taken on an important role with its development of E Ink, which is able to render text on e-reader screens. The original goal of creating e-books, of course, was to make…
Roger Ebert and Me: A P0kkuri Moment!
Praying for a Pokkuri Moment: ''No Muss, No Fuss''
by Danny Dan Daniel Bloom (1949 - 2032)
WEBPOSTED -- When it's time to meet your Maker,
do you want to hang in there as
long as possible, even if you are bed-ridden and in pain and in
an
assisted-living residence, or do you… Read full post »
''Pokkuri'': Roger Ebert, the celebrated film critic ......
OPED: 'Snailpapers' is term of endearment for newspapers now
I want to introduce you today to the word "snailpapers." What's a snailpaper, you ask? These are the newspapers we read every day with news that is often 12 hours old by the time it reaches us. Inside, the news is even older.
Maybe you are reading this commentary in… Read full post »
Confessions of an Old Fuddieduddy (OFD) & The Daily Paper
Some novel uses for snails, or why the term "snailpapers" for print newspapers is a step backwards for mankind, and yet at the same time, a step forward into the future of backward thinking, and still, at the very same time, a cute way to think about our daily ritual of… Read full post »
Are newspapers fast becoming "snailpapers"?
Do you still read your daily snailpaper, and does this cute cartoon by Mary Susan MacDonald in Toronto remind you of your own daily ritual of going to the door to find your snailpaper being delivered on time, but with news inside it that is 12 hours old......?
Is the
New York… Read full post »
Rina Mukherji, Indian journalist, on women's issues
PHOTO CAPTION: Rina Mukherji with her daughter [see note at bottom of page for explanation of photo].
Meet Rina Mukherji. She is an Indian journalist based in Kolkata, who has a keen interest in many compelling issues of our day, both in her own country and overseas as well. In a
I roomed with the guy who hammered the Pieta in Rome in 1971
Want to hear more?
Vatican Museum, Michelangelo's Pieta. 1971. Rememher......
Ask me why he did it and where he is now.... Read full post »
"Open Kimono" strategy- who coined that term?
Who coined it and where? And when? Steven Greenhouse wrote about the term in 1998 in a New York Times story about Microsoft office slang.
http://amafubme.blogspot.com/2009/08/open-kimono-jason-perlow-open-kimono.html
Open the kimono -- A marvelous phrase of non-Microsoft origin, p… Read full post »
Climate activists plan self-immolation protest?
DEC. 7, 3009 -- A group of determined climate
activists plan to set themselves on fire today outside
the UN building in Copenhagen in hopes of issuing a cri de
coeur
to help combat global warming, while at the same time urging
governments to agree a tough U.N. climate pac… Read full post »
Dual-screen laptop for m-tasking?
A dual-screen laptop is set to go on sale by December, and will be perfect for m-tasking. Is the world going insane or what?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6105506/Dual-screen-laptop-on-sale-by-Christmas.html Read full post »
M-tasking: new term for "multitasking"
In the beginning, there was "multi-tasking" (aka multitasking). And then one day, a clipped version of the term appeared online somewhere on an OS comment thread, and it was called "m-tasking". Shortens the amount of time you need to type the word in, and frees you up to do more… Read full post »
Bill Clinton Lookalike Down Under?
PHOTO CAPTION: from left to right in photo: Andrew Enstice, Janeen Webb, Domna Pastourmatzi, Russell Blackford (or is that Bill Clinton) and Jenny Blackford in October 2001
Doesn't that man sitting next to Jenny Blackford look like the spitting image of Bill Clinton? Look ag… Read full post »
The Bindle: a 'b'-reader: humor!
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2009/08/introducing-bindle-new-reading-device.html
Introducing!
The Bindle!
A New Reading Device!
Will Change the World!
Doesn't crash!
No Eye Strain!
Take It Anywhere!
Okay on Airplanes!
No Wifi Needed!
No plug-ins!
Lend! Borrrow! Burn!
Touch It! Feel It… Read full post »
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