DON’T FORGET THE BIRDS
Is a blog that records the birds (and sometimes other animals) living around Umeå and the places I travel. Through photography, observations, conversations, and writing, this blog explores the relationships between species, landscapes, art, ecology, and political contexts. It’s also a place where I’m learning to notice everyday phenology — the small seasonal shifts and the broader environmental effects they hint at.
Slavonian Grebe (svarthakedopping) Holmsund Golf Course, Ubmeje.

George Carlin on Golf
I've got just the place for low-cost housing. I have solved this problem. I know where we can build housing for the homeless: golf courses! It's perfect! Just what we need. Plenty of good land, in nice neighborhoods, land that is currently being wasted on a meaningless, mindless activity engaged in primarily by white, well-to-do male businessmen who use the game to get together to make deals to carve this country up a little finer amongst themselves.
I am getting tired, really getting tired, of these golfing cocksuckers in their green pants, and their yellow pants, and their orange pants, and their precious little hats and their cute little golf carts! It is time to reclaim the golf courses from the wealthy and turn them over to the homeless!
Golfing is an arrogant, elitist game which takes up entirely too much room in this country. Too much room in this country! It is an arrogant game on its very design alone, just the design of the game speaks of arrogance. Think of how big a golf course is — the ball is that fucking big! What do these pin-headed pricks need with all that land?!
There are over seventeen thousand golf courses in America, they average over one hundred and fifty acres a piece — that's three million plus acres, four thousand, eight hundred and twenty square miles.
Source
George Carlin, Jammin' in New York (1992).



