--- George Thomas <george.thomas at graffiti.net> wrote,
among other things: >
>
>
> As for Mike Davis, he also wrote "Burning Our
> Illusions Tonight," "Magical Urbanism," "Prisoners
> of the American Dream," "99 Surefire Ways to Stay
> Unemployed." I'm impressed, I wonder at his
> popularity with the lunatic fringe. The NY Times
> doesn't yet have a review of this latest work, but
> does review another work, "Ecology of Fear; Los
> Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster."
>
http://search3.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+book-rev+bookrev-arch+23475+0+wAAA+mike%7Edavis
> The review is good for a chuckle, enjoy. I'd take
> with a grain of salt, any claims of Davis being
> convincing re: famines, this other work with weather
> patterns leaves much to be desired, unless one reads
> it just for the knee-slappers.
>
> George Thomas
You are Jan Carowan and I claim my five pounds.
dd
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