The macadamia nut was named after John Macadam, Scotch-Australian academic. The nut is native to northeastern Australia, but famously cultivated in Hawaii, for example by Roseanne Barr, whose farm …| Helytimes
I noticed this deep canyon on my Raven map of southern California. You can see it on Google maps. Here’s what to expect when you dive the canyon: After a short swim you drop down to a 25-30 foot sand bottom and move west. As you reach a depth of about 35 feet, you’ll start down […]| Helytimes
Around age eight or nine, romping in the woods beyond the end of our street, and by the brook, around the pond and the abandoned Girl Scout camp was a big part of my time. I would collect sticks in…| Helytimes
wild stat: For example, in 1990 there were just half a million cars in China. By 2024 there were 435mn, many of them electric. from FT on Dan Wang’s new book.| Helytimes
(source) I lived two and a half years in New York City but I didn’t know much about Greenpoint. A brief visit for a special occasion brought me to this corner of Brooklyn. Stayed at Franklin …| Helytimes
I like sitting in the crowd. Like when I go to a sporting event, I want to get good seats, but the closer you sit, the quieter it gets and the less fun it gets. It’s the most fucked-up thing. Unless it’s like an NBA game where before they had a DJ play the whole […]| Helytimes
from Archibald MacLeish’s tribute poem after he died: Veteran out of the wars before he was twenty: Famous at twenty-five: thirty a master – Whittled a style for his time from a walnut stick In a carpenter’s loft in a street of that April city. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899. Thus it’s […]| Helytimes
Zane makes The New York Times. I don’t care for the word “snub.” from Etymology Online: If you’re a Television Academy member, please consider voting for COMMON SIDE EFFECTS in the category Outstan…| Helytimes
From Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway: A Biography: Like most people who were drawn by Hemingway’s magnetic personality and valued him more as a companion than as a writer, Lanham found it amusing and exciting to be with him and to be known to have been with him. (The general is remembered today not for his military […]| Helytimes
Thinking of hosting an event where we eat the lunch Jedediah Smith has at the San Gabriel mission, California in 1826: At 11 O Clock [am] the Father came and invited us to dinner. We accompanied hi…| Helytimes
If you have a little kid in the US you will have some clothes from Carter’s. They sell them at Target and Wal-Mart as well as 1,000 or so Carter’s stores, and they cost $8. Before I had…| Helytimes
If you’re wondering why he’s wearing watchface facing in, submariner’s habit, so you could tell time while working the periscope. As a preteen he castrated hogs, ploughed a field with a mule (Emma)…| Helytimes
Here’s an anecdote. One of Sartre’s closest friends in school was Raymond Aron, a conservative, pro-American political scientist. In those days, the French government had scholarships to various fo…| Helytimes
former Nixon and Reagan aide has just told his Miller Center oral history interviewers a long story about the Nixon administration: YoungSo, what is the moral of that story?AndersonThe moral of the…| Helytimes
Posts about the California Condition written by helytimes| Helytimes
saw someone on X (formerly “Twitter”) raise the old red flag of The Great Gatsby isn’t that good actually so I took it off the shelf. That’s how it starts. (Struck me that m…| Helytimes
