“This Is War”: Extreme Cycling

"I love the urban combat of riding a bike in the city. I treat it as war because I believe it is." Mark Francis Twight What does an ex-extreme alpinist do when they can't write about climbing as war any more? Well, they write about cycling as war. Mark Twight is an ex-extreme (I feel like …

Open Access Cutting Edge Environmental Research and an Update on SUMS 2016

This blog post disseminates some current research news. First, Bloomsbury has started a very cool new book project that includes offering interested readers free, open source access to current, top-level ecocritical/environmental humanities research: Here's a link to the free stuff. I personally think this is great, and can't wait to read these books. Also, it …

On “Companion Animals” and “Becoming Animal”

"The king is gone but he's not forgotten" -Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) Our cat died this past weekend. He was a good cat. A cat that could climb and run better than me. His skiing abilities were never really tested but I don't doubt that, with proper training, …

(Another) Progress Report

Well well, it seems I've been a lazy boy lately. Failing to blog last week meant that I've now had my first week of no new blog posts. My goal has been to update on roughly a weekly basis here so I feel kinda guilty of letting down the, err, huge masses of people who …