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September 29, 2005

A Royalty Rate on the End of the World

My school's alumni association found me and sends me the glossy magazine unbidden; this month the top story was on global warming. It’s basically as dire as all the others, but delivered with a peppy alumni-magazine spin: “Stanford researchers are learning important things about climate change!” So weird.

 

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.