Americans have so little conception that we are the gentry of the world. We still see ourselves as wild upstarts climbing our way up from our previous place downstairs of the hereditary old world. We believe we are still fighting to climb upstairs into the world of prestige, power privilege entirely unaware of our [ ]
I have been struggling through weeks of wildfire choked air. It’s been all I can do to think of anything else as it’s been so oppressive and claustrophobic. I hope that I don’t have daily readers as it’s surely been quite boring to hear me talk of nothing else. It’s just simply been that bad [ ]
We may finally be getting a break in the wildfire smoke build up. I have been going insane and my body is as miserable as it ever gets. I feel so broken by it I have started to behave emotionally and erratically, clinging to the few pieces of my routine that I can manage locked [ ]
I am still under the weather, in that the weather has produced wildfires under whose acrid air I am feeling smothered. It’s improved from dangerous to merely unhealthy with a fun bonus of flash flood warning. I am trying to hold myself together even if I can’t comfortably take deep breathes even inside the house. [ ]
My body has been really struggling after a full week of unhealthy air from the regional wildfires that are burning from Washington to Oregon. The air quality index, or AQI, has been 160ish for days and it’s not relented despite forecasts suggesting it might yesterday. I’ve done my best to stay inside in filtered air [ ]
Stuck culture has been a complaint and source of debate for about half a decade in the popular discourse as we all slammed on the breaks in 2020 but has been with us a lot longer in theories from hauntology to the long now. Since a mutual has a running bet that we have yet [ ]
I am just about ready to pull the rip cord on summer. Or at least summer in Montana. I am miserable with the smoke clogged air. But it’s possible this is just an excuse for my usual summer season affective disorder. Yeah SAD isn’t just a winter thing. I harbor a slight suspicion of people [ ]
I never actually saw the movie but when Syriana was being heavily promoted and George Clooney was going about doing his man-of-the-world geopolitical shtick, he got a blowback for the aesthetics of the film. Aggressively “gritty” visual approach—handheld camera work, dim naturalistic lighting, and a dusty, sun-baked palette screen-anarchy A film about America s over-reliance on [ ]
The air quality in the Rockies and Pacific Northwest is a misery. In Spokane, a man confessed to starting the Old Trails fire in Spokane Washington. a Spokane resident, told investigators he planned to commit the crime for weeks and researched what day would be ideal — a high-wind, low humidity forecast that materialized over [ ]
Our beautiful Montana valley has only five weather stations publicly delivering data recording data to compile The U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI). The AQI turns out to be crucial information in the mountain west come fire season. The U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI) is EPA s tool for communicating about outdoor air quality and health. The [ ]