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Water on the Brain

Water on the Brain

by Tara Flanagan May 3, 2011 Cartographic

We drink them, play in them, and solve the world’s problems on their banks. We also tourniquet them with dams, foul them beyond recognition and then engage in legal wars over their contents.

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Getting a Move On

Getting a Move On

by Tara Flanagan April 5, 2011 April 2011

With Mud Season soon upon us, it’s customary for mountain folk, many who live and breathe tourism in order to dwell in the thin air, to take a temporary leave. Some of us will attempt to be learned travelers in the spirit of evolution. But given that only 37 percent of Americans have passports (half [...]

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Dogged Pursuits

Dogged Pursuits

by Tara Flanagan February 1, 2011 Cartographic

At last count, we Americans had roughly 77.5 million dogs among our ranks. Nearly 40 percent of our households contain at least one dog, and despite the recession, we are spending record amounts on our curs. If you doubt our willingness to spend big, consider Neuticles, a testicular implant that restores “anatomical preciseness” to neutered [...]

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Deep, Dark and Weird

Deep, Dark and Weird

by MG Admin January 12, 2011 Cartographic

As we find ourselves once again in the shortest and darkest days of the year, we turn inward to reflect on the cold and weird that resides within us all. We consider the ramifications of blue-ice impacts, anaerobic digesters and plunging into icy surf, and wait for longer, brighter days, which, sometimes, it seems, can’t [...]

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Madness all Over Again

Madness all Over Again

by Tara Flanagan December 9, 2010 Cartographic

Seems we were just sighing the relief that came with hurling last year’s Christmas tree onto the environmentally responsible municipal compost pile, and here we are, a year wiser, but not necessarily less neurotic. May we all excel at Feats of Strength and be kind with the Airing of Grievances. 1) Trees of great importance [...]

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Talking Turkey

Talking Turkey

by Tara Flanagan November 2, 2010 Cartographic

In many ways, the Thanksgiving turkey has become a metaphor for the downfall of our bloated and broken American civilization. Once the sacrificial bird that united the Pilgrims and Indians (that’s the version that is completely devoid of revisionist history), it’s now a word used to describe idiots, has become a common incendiary device with [...]

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Cheapskates Rejoice

Cheapskates Rejoice

by Tara Flanagan October 8, 2010 Cartographic

Champions emerge from every crappy situation, and our long, lousy economic condition is no exception. Sometimes in the name of environmental sustainability, sometimes as a matter of one-upmanship, extreme thriftiness and downsizing have usurped ramen noodles and Geo Metros to become an art form. 1) Big on Small Dee Williams of Olympia has become a poster [...]

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Got Stuff?

Got Stuff?

by Tara Flanagan September 20, 2010 Cartographic

Technically speaking, gear is gear as long as it is actively useful. After that, it becomes stuff. At a certain point, it becomes certifiable crap, such as the 25-year-old randonee boards taking up space in a certain writer’s garage. Or that single climbing skin. Or the abandoned blades used in a cross-country ice-skating experiment. With the [...]

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