I’ve collected a lot of feed back from my previous post about my upcoming research into Cape Wind, the proposed wind farm out in Nantucket sound. It’s a very interesting instance of public communication (an instance, I guess you could call it, although the proposal has been present for almost eight years) that is, for the most part, unprecedented in American environmental rhetoric.  I am a student of ‘rhetorical critique’ here in Ithaca; so the …

It’s too bad, but my summer ended today with the beginning of class.

Nonetheless, I did have an excruciatingly awesome summer. According to my family and friends, it was the last few months I was allowed to do whatever I wanted before I graduate from college and have to do serious things like re-organize the UPS shipping motherboard to stream-line overnight delivery.

The capstone of the summer was most likely my three-week stint as pit guitar player …

Each summer, my family goes to a pristine lake in Maine to relax and kayak.

I was sailing aross the Atlantic earlier this week on my way to Lisbon with a shipment of premium-grade cork, and something very strange happened to me. I dabble occasionally in the merchant-marine industry much like the way a toddler ends up with more food on his clothes than in his mouth, but that’s irrelevant to the story.

I had just steamed 800 miles at the helm through icy Arctic waters, and was just plain tired. Fortunately, …

For the third year in a row, our group (TAQ) had the opportunity to open for the Boston Pops down in Hyannis during the annual Pops by The Sea concert. Over 15,000 people show up for this thing, and we are always very excited to perform. Oh yeah, and Henry Winkler was there.

They’re here for a limited time; the only donuts in the world baked in pure ice. Brendan reports on the phenomenon that can be enjoyed from any convenience store.