THE VIEW FROM THE WEST - VOL. 4
The other day I was sitting here at my desk, listening to music, staring at my screen. And the lampshade to my left started shaking.
I looked down at my dog and my dog did nothing. We sat there for a moment and then the shaking went away.
One thing you might not know is that an earthquake can make you feel seasick.
In his 1999 book entitled The Ecology of Fear, Mike Davis points out that at least 138 novels and films dating back to 1909 have dealt with the destruction of Los Angeles.
Earthquake. Fire. Flood. Nukes. Alien or human invasion.
A storyline that never grows old.
“The entire world,” Davis argues, “seems to be rooting for LA to slide into the Pacific or be swallowed up by the San Andreas Fault.”….
