Agreed on Nic casting for the role of Jack. Love his line in Leaving Las Vegas when he's shopping for booze and says he's gonna drink himself to death, -that was my attitude once upon a time.
One of the many terrible consequences of the ocean heating is that fish have to swim to deeper, cooler water. But these fish are the food of sea birds like pelicans. The pelicans cannot dive deep enough to catch them. International Bird Rescue has Los Angeles and San Francisco area facilities that take birds in who are injured. They treat them and release them back to the wild. But I still worry that they still won't find enough food. The climate catastrophe makes me want to scream, actually. It did not have to be like this.
I'm really happy you didnt take the writing assignment to cover the Republican “midterm” convention for Bulwark. This was a lovely combination of funny and informative.
"the 666-part Netflix series that covers all the criminality, mayhem, and unbridled hate from these last ten years." 😂😂😂😂
Actor and movie critique plus some El Niño and climate change. For a second I thought I had fat fingers and had opened the Ruminato, Heated, and Talking Climate Substacks simultaneously. Only Charles could blend this all together so well.
Nicolas should have consulted a wave action engineer and a geotechnical engineer before plucking down his hard earned dollars on that piece of Malibu real estate. There’s a reason Google Earth only shows a few built lots on that side of the street and several empty ones along that stretch of beach. There is no flat buildable land. The houses extend out over the sand beyond a seawall that is close to the street. The house over the sand is supported on wood driven piles or drilled cast-in-place reinforced concrete round caisson pile foundations. The seawall is probably driven steel sheet piles with maybe some large boulder rip-rap protection in front of it. The only thing on flat land behind the seawall is part of the garage and the driveway. The problem is the bedrock under Malibu beaches is shallow and the beach over the bedrock has been losing sand for decades. The driven and drilled piles only can get two or three feet into the bedrock before meeting refusal. As the beach loses more sand, wave action can scour out under and behind the sheet piles retaining the soil under the driveway. Worse yet, it can destabilize the seaward piles supporting the house. Add insult to injury if the neighboring property doesn’t have a seawall, one that isn’t deep enough, or an old one that has started to fail. The result is a big hole. Nothing new in that part of the world. Then again, if Nicolas had bought several miles down the coast, he would have lost his beach house to the Palisades Fire. Money can buy headaches. Buyer beware.
Agreed on Nic casting for the role of Jack. Love his line in Leaving Las Vegas when he's shopping for booze and says he's gonna drink himself to death, -that was my attitude once upon a time.
One of my favorite movies. I may have resembled that character in my late twenties also. It's all a haze now.
One of the many terrible consequences of the ocean heating is that fish have to swim to deeper, cooler water. But these fish are the food of sea birds like pelicans. The pelicans cannot dive deep enough to catch them. International Bird Rescue has Los Angeles and San Francisco area facilities that take birds in who are injured. They treat them and release them back to the wild. But I still worry that they still won't find enough food. The climate catastrophe makes me want to scream, actually. It did not have to be like this.
I have an addendum about the dearth of food in the ocean. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gray-whales-are-washing-up-dead-on-the-west-coast-the-reason-is-alarming/
This is great. I'll pin this in the morning to the top of the comments. I can't seem to do that on the phone app. Thanks!
I'm really happy you didnt take the writing assignment to cover the Republican “midterm” convention for Bulwark. This was a lovely combination of funny and informative.
"the 666-part Netflix series that covers all the criminality, mayhem, and unbridled hate from these last ten years." 😂😂😂😂
Thanks! I was wondering if anyone would catch the 666 part :-)
🐒 “Trumpanzees” 😜
Actor and movie critique plus some El Niño and climate change. For a second I thought I had fat fingers and had opened the Ruminato, Heated, and Talking Climate Substacks simultaneously. Only Charles could blend this all together so well.
Nicolas should have consulted a wave action engineer and a geotechnical engineer before plucking down his hard earned dollars on that piece of Malibu real estate. There’s a reason Google Earth only shows a few built lots on that side of the street and several empty ones along that stretch of beach. There is no flat buildable land. The houses extend out over the sand beyond a seawall that is close to the street. The house over the sand is supported on wood driven piles or drilled cast-in-place reinforced concrete round caisson pile foundations. The seawall is probably driven steel sheet piles with maybe some large boulder rip-rap protection in front of it. The only thing on flat land behind the seawall is part of the garage and the driveway. The problem is the bedrock under Malibu beaches is shallow and the beach over the bedrock has been losing sand for decades. The driven and drilled piles only can get two or three feet into the bedrock before meeting refusal. As the beach loses more sand, wave action can scour out under and behind the sheet piles retaining the soil under the driveway. Worse yet, it can destabilize the seaward piles supporting the house. Add insult to injury if the neighboring property doesn’t have a seawall, one that isn’t deep enough, or an old one that has started to fail. The result is a big hole. Nothing new in that part of the world. Then again, if Nicolas had bought several miles down the coast, he would have lost his beach house to the Palisades Fire. Money can buy headaches. Buyer beware.