Trevor MacDermid, a fine friend of mine, was featured in the New Yorker recently in an article by Ben McGrath!
“Shortly before the vernal equinox last year, Trevor MacDermid, who lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, noticed an unusual bar of light next to his shower curtain. After some confusion, he concluded that the setting sun, hovering briefly between the branches of a neighbor’s tree and a distant chimney, was positioned at such an angle that its rays cleared a potted plant hanging in front of his kitchen window, the doorjamb of his bathroom, and a medicine cabinet beyond. He rushed to fetch a pencil, and traced the outline of the light, but by the time he thought to add the date and the approximate time (6 P.M.) “the golden sliver,” as he called it, had vanished. “I didn’t see the Virgin Mary on a croissant,” he conceded recently, but, in an age of global warming and overdevelopment, a man predisposed to mark the changing of the seasons through natural observation will take what he can get: a domestic Stonehenge.”
If you have New Yorker account, you can read the rest of the article here.
Monkey Fans Rejoice
(Jill Greenberg’s The Hatchling)
It’s official. There’s a website dedicated to culling monkey articles across the web and delivering them to your inbox. According to the site, “Monkeywire.org is the premier source of monkey and ape news for all primates.”
There you have it, straight from the monkey’s mouth.