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Me and Vanity Fair

Posted by David Roberts at 9:08 AM on 04 Apr 2008

Read more about: shameless self-promotion

As noted by James Wolcott here (a small thrill for a longtime Wolcott fanboy), I have a guest residency this month on the Vanity Fair green blog, which is running throughout April in conjunction with their green issue.

As you'll see at the link, I have a few things up already. Drop by!

Good transit post, DR

Until the U.S. public starts seeing clean, convenient, fast public transit as a public good deserving of public money--not a quasi-private service that's supposed to "pay for itself"--we'll never get away from car-centric culture, and we'll be tied forever to the vagaries of oil and gas prices, putting the working class most at risk.
(perhaps another answer to the discussion about the "The forgotten solution")

The referenced USA Today article has some useful stuff too:

Part of the squeeze stems from the failure of federal funding to keep pace with the relative explosion in the number of transit systems under construction. Even as more cities build or expand their systems and ridership hits a 50-year high, the amount of federal funding has remained constant.
Good news, bad news indeed.

"Tippi Hedren's porcelain head"!

Even the Stoic and elder-respecting DR might wonder what that ancient object of his affection James Wolcott had in mind, when he found it appropriate that the beginning of DR's guest-bloggership should coincide with an airing of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds."

One does not like to use "LOL" too often, its value being so inflated; but really, JW's paragraph on "The Birds" is terrific.

Being a fan of crows, I rather especially liked that bit about the crows on the monkey bars, playing the game of "Chasing Screaming Children Down the Hill."  He might have added: "Pecking Their Teacher's Eyes Out in Her Bed."

But what this has to do with DR -- who is not known for his great love of birds, or for his hatred of them either -- is a secret locked in the heart of James Wolcott.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

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