RANT/REVIEW/SPOILER: X-Files is done and gone. Hurray. The last episode was a rather pathetic attempt at court drama. And Mulder has now gone from Signs to Sixth Sense and can see and talk to dead people. Hurray for him. They appear to now be waiting for the 2nd coming to stave off the imminent invasion by aliens. This I assume is going to happen in the second coming of an X-File Movie. Egads I will have one last review.

I love flying, looking down on the world. Flew to see my sister last weekend. Cool stuff around Philadelphia: bizarre hills, glacier remains, morraines, I think, long long narrow hills that look like offa's dyke or some other ancient, no grassy mound of a wall. they are wooded and in between they are full of farmers' fields, long rectangles, triangles of green & brown, joined by roads that bounce up and down through the hillls.

lots of big old quarries as well, and a golf course under construction, showing its true face, bare ugly brown dirt.

islands off CT look positively yummy, to be in a kayak or outrigger, cruising, doing loops and exploring.

from 30,000 feet
the earth is all lines and angles
bits of fractals spreading
this way and that
ravines, rivers, edges of
oceans, forests
interrupted by humans
straight lines and gentle curves
squares and circles.

at 30,000 ft
clearcuts are like wounds on a dog
the fur shaved off
a lowered reservoir
revealing a bikini line