Dr Dreadful’s Letter From America: The Impractical Art of Walking
May 27, 2008
You know how if you’re female there are some things you don’t do, especially after dark? Once the sun goes down, the world for the fairer sex becomes a Clockwork Orange-y hell, the shadows filled with predators ready to pounce on your purse or your modesty in the blink of a streetlight. The reasons we [...]
Dr Dreadful’s Letter From America: Extreme Weather – Or Not
April 9, 2008
Spring has come to the San Joaquin Valley. After a month of almost continuous winter rain, the normally brown foothills are briefly washed in a watery bloom of green. The rain has purged the smog and particulates, drawing them back like a lace curtain and revealing the snow-laden Sierra Nevada mountains, rarely seen from the [...]
Dr Dreadful’s Letter From America: It Sure Ain’t the Boat Race
June 29, 2008
At around 9 p.m. this past Wednesday, on a baseball field in Omaha, Nebraska, a young right fielder named Steve Detwiler took a catch that made sporting history.
Dr Dreadful’s Letter From America: The Concrete Savanna
March 11, 2009
Vast areas of the USA, once known for their wildness and beauty, are disappearing under the “concrete foundations of the future”. In his latest Letter From America, Dr Dreadful addresses the changes in his parbaked part of Southern California.
