Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead

  • Fishing Journal: fishies @ SBC/Eldo

    So I am told that I have been catching browns. They do look a lot like the guy above, most distinctively with the row of pink spots that can appear along the midline. Caught a bunch yesterday. I really need to spend more time between the big rock (my name for it) and the vehicle…

  • Fishing Journal: reference

    I am considering South Boulder Creek in El Dorado Canyon State Park to be my local water for the summer. View Larger Map Been out there a half-dozen times in the last couple of weeks. and am having a blast with it. Yesterday morning (Monday, 8/4, 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.) I caught ten fish…

  • Fishing Journal: 20080728, Colorado River (up from Lake Granby)

    Colleague invites me up to his place, from which we can fish. Beautiful drive to his place, beautiful water to fish, but not as much time on the water as I would have liked. First day fishing on the new line (Gold something or other, 5 weight) and the casting is good. I identify a…

  • Fishing Journal: 20080709, So. Fork Stanislaus River (Strawberry, CA)

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  • Fishing Journal: 200806xx

    So, Old Colleague asks if I want to fish. Is the Pope Catholic? Ends up being 2.5 hour drive to small, blown out creek on private water (paying $60 for the privilege). I catch the same fish twice, I think, in the very first pool, though I made two passes on the mile or so…

  • Fishing Journal: Summer 2007, South Boulder Creek “headwaters” (from Gross Reservoir)

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  • Fishing Journal: Introduction

    I am going to try to post some recollections of my too-infrequent fly-fishing excursions. I am rapidly becoming obsessed with this incredible pastime and want to remember where I fish and how it goes. I am a novice fly-fisherman and frankly don’t have 5% of the knowledge I’d really need to do things right. Hell,…

  • America’s Surveillance Society

    WTF are we doing? H/T: LGM

  • Waterboarding is Torture

    Let AFJ be crystal clear on a subject where these men are opaque: Waterboarding is a torture technique that has its history rooted in the Spanish Inquisition. In 1947, the U.S. prosecuted a Japanese military officer for carrying out a form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian during World War II. Waterboarding inflicts on its…

  • NAU

    People keep asking me about the North American Union (NAU). As one of its architects, I am sworn to secrecy. Blast these Boston Globe reporters! h/t Drezner.