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James Kew: Resident Alien: Lime Ridge 4: Paraiso Trail Loop
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Sunday, September 11, 2005. Lime Ridge 4: Paraiso Trail Loop. I’ve been hiking Shell Ridge a lot lately, so yesterday we headed over for a hike in Lime Ridge Open Space. Which turned out to be a lot more exciting than expected. The Windsor herds were semi-domesticated, whereas the deer here are genuinely wild animals. Rattlesnakes, in the flesh, sound. Like they do in the movies. And it’s a surprisingly scary sound, provoking a strong visceral react...We tell...
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James Kew: Resident Alien: Trust the Gorton's Fisherman?
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Sunday, May 21, 2006. Trust the Gorton's Fisherman? Truth in product packaging. And Gorton’s. With your advertising message. Exhorting me to trust you: I’m looking at you. Look at the size. Don’t they look good? Oh Look at the size. They’re tiny. And what the photo doesn’t show is that the box is a lot bigger as it needs to be: it’s only half-full. This is not unusual for boxed frozen products here. June 08, 2006 1:26 PM permanent link. In this case we dont t...
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James Kew: Resident Alien: Kill Bill: chick flick?
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Tuesday, April 25, 2006. Kill Bill: chick flick? Last year on this day I wondered. Why Kill Bill I and II aren’t the ultimate chick revenge movies, like Thelma and Louise. A year later, I still don’t get it. Yes, I remember that. I remember rolling my eyes then; they’re rolling again now. Slightly disturbing: Dave’s repeated. That Kill Bill is a “great chick movie”. *boggle* What sort of “chicks” does he hang out with? Glib statements of bodycount. I post lin...
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James Kew: Resident Alien: Tips for dogsitters
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Tuesday, November 30, 2004. Do not walk the in-law's dog up in the hills where the deer hang out. Oh, it was fun, and the view was great. But where there's long grass and deer, there are probably also ticks. And he's only a little dog, so it's not a big jump for them. Oh yes. Five of them. Gruesome: big fat beige bodies, heads buried in the flesh, and awful spindly little black legs which. In the creepiest way. Was wearing long trousers that day.
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James Kew: Resident Alien: Shell Ridge 4: Monday Night Nature Hike
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Wednesday, August 17, 2005. Shell Ridge 4: Monday Night Nature Hike. Monday was the first time we’ve hiked in the evening. We usually hike late mornings and afternoons, and I think we’ve been missing out: there seems to be a lot more wildlife about at dusk. We start at about 6pm at the Marshall Drive trailhead and head up onto Shell Ridge itself, taking the official trail this time: the last time. Still there. And just past the. Marker, we see an ant migratio...
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James Kew: Resident Alien: Redwood Regional Park
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Thursday, March 03, 2005. Walk yesterday, in Redwood Regional Park. Mdash; one of the string of parks in the Berkeley hills which include Wildcat, Tilden. Sibley, and Huckleberry. The forest was logged clean in the 1840s–1860s, leaving a sea of stumps. Malcolm Margolin, in The East Bay Out. We both really enjoyed this hike, but really wanted more of it to be in the forest and less of it on the hillsides; next time we might extend it by taking the French Trail...
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James Kew: Resident Alien: Iron Horse / Shell Ridge Connect-the-Dots Hike
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Tuesday, August 23, 2005. Iron Horse / Shell Ridge Connect-the-Dots Hike. I’m carless today—Melinda’s visiting her parents—so for tonight’s evening hike, I set out on foot, connecting together a number of previously-hiked trails. From the apartment I head north on the Iron Horse Trail to Walden Park, the starting-point of an earlier hike. At Heather Farm I retrace my previous steps. I can’t resist climbing up onto Shell Ridge, although today I take the. At In...
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James Kew: Resident Alien: Two monkeys
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Sunday, February 26, 2006. Is a much better monkey movie than King Kong. George: playful, innocent, sweet, short; full of the joy of life; and unashamedly for kids, with no ironic in-jokes winking and mugging at adults. (There is, however, one “you go, girlfriend” which. Feels stale and which won’t age well.). Go see George: it’ll make you feel good about life. Oh, and Ebert and Roeper. Where’s your sense of. Add a comment. Walnut Creek, California.
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James Kew: Resident Alien: Tilden Regional Park
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James Kew: Resident Alien. Brit out of water. Thursday, February 10, 2005. A glorious day for a hike: sunny, clear, but cool. The clear skies in particular suggest something with a view. Is a big regional park in the hills above Berkeley. Lots of recreation: an old carousel, model steam trains. Lake swimming (which might be fun in summer, hmm), botanic gardens; but today, it's hiking. We took bahiker's route. Almost lost the trail twice though. Once at the start: Curran Trail starts. Most of the forest i...
