September 24, 2009

Who needs topsoil anyway?
posted by polychrome 15 years ago
  • Anyone that does need some can come and shovel it off every surface in my apartment. Bring a ute.
  • Just curious here... how does all that airborne particulate matter affect stuff like electronics and machinery? If it's getting inside apartments, isn't it getting inside everything? Good luck with the fallout, as it were. Hope you have an industrial strength Dust Buster.
  • I have a friend living in Sydney. His first text message to me upon waking up was "I just woke up on muthafuckin' Mars."
  • That picture of the already surreal Luna Park gate is astounding. More great photos at the Big Picture..
  • Ah ha! Thanks islander, that's what I was waiting for--the satellite pic. Pretty bluddy impressive, that. Guess we all better get used to the dust, what with all the climate change coming and all. As they say elsewhere: dust storm, pffft! THIS is a dust storm.
  • It's turning up in our yard now. Bloody neighbours!
  • So apparently, one part of Australia has now moved to another part of Australia?
  • *waves dust cloth madly at wendell*
  • Meanwhile... If only we could spread it to the antipodes!
  • S'true - although we are getting a fairly wet spring here at the moment in southern South Australia. The north of the state is what needs it. And its soil back too please.
  • Looking at some of those Big Picture photos, I see a lucrative future for Sydney's window cleaners.
  • Buy shares in Pledge, people!
  • They stripped Iceland of trees for firewood, hundreds of years ago. They all plant trees now. What kind of a tree program have you all got down under? A BIG one I hope. Like get out there right now, and start planting water retention and goodness, okay? Oh, and eat those rabbits too!
  • Is it really true that you can't live on eating rabbits alone, because they don't have any fat?
  • They had a great tasting colonial game pie at Braddock's Restaurant near here. It was loaded with rabbit meat. But now it's off the menu in favor of something called Australian Lambchops...
  • They call sheep wooly maggots up here--mainly because they distroy all the vegetation and the topsoil blows away--- hellooo, Australia
  • More of THIS kind of conservation on portions of private property would be most helpful. Or as our own mayor says, "keep your backyards wild!"
  • The above THIS was in Western Australia, but they even try pretty hard in a built up area like Chicago. I know they wanted to host the Olympics, but hosting a viable natural environment is even more important, surely.
  • There was some interesting comments made on NPR the other day about Chicago and the Olympics.