http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-green-burial-20120101,0,3811532.story

=v= He was killed by a car. Of course.
<_Jym_>

Please go to the site below, vote for me (Joseph Floyd, Zero Waste Coordinator), and share this on your wall. My beautiful wife entered me in a contest for a Yuba Mundo cargo bike that will allow me to carry 440 lbs plus me without the CO2 emissions of a car. Thanks in advance and thank your friends for me too!! :) http://wfi.re/f4hdv

Sincerely,
Joseph Floyd

=v= Jen-Luc Godard's 1967 film _Week_End_ was at a moviehouse
this weekend, and had no idea what I was getting into. In the
first few minutes of the film there is road rage (well, parking
lot rage), and in short order we're in the road film from Hell.
After another parking lot altercation, we find ourselves in a
remarkable 8-minute tracking shot of a traffic jam on a highway
out of Paris. Of course it's online:

http://fan.tcm.com/_Week-End-1967-Jean-Luc-Godard-Tracking-Shot/video/1578921/66470.html

Notice the honking and anger every step of the way.

=v= Things aren't much better when our protagonists get their
car rolling at higher speeds, of course; there are smashed-up
cars and cartoonishly bloody bodies alongside every country
road. A bicyclist is run off the road, then a car in exactly
the same manner, and then of course a pedestrian. A collision
between a sports car and tractor prompts a heated argument
about class war.

=v= A guerrilla band arrives about 2/3rds of the way into the
film and dynamites a car, but alas, the revolution (and the
film) goes awry when it loses sight of its core values. The
guerillas apparently there to make some kind of statement
about the collapse of bourgeois civiliation (I use the b-word
advisedly, because after this film, Godard devoted his career
to Marxism). The revolutionaries descend into cruelty and
barbarism, less cartoonish and more shocking -- a dull-witted
writeup in the _SF_Weekly_ links this to Occupy Wall Street for
no discerniblereason -- and we move from cars to cannibalism
and guns. Alas.

=v= Even so, overall, a satisfying look at car culture and
its discontents. Two carfree thumbs up!
<_Jym_>

=v= I guess San Francisco didn't get Mother Nature's hint when
she knocked down some freeways, so she's giving us a reminder.
<_Jym_>

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/23/BA221MT8PV.DTL

Boulders slide down Telegraph Hill, crush car
Will Kane, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, 23-Jan-2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

(01-23) 11:57 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- City officials have
temporarily evacuated a condominium building at the base of
San Francisco's Telegraph Hill after several boulders slid
down the hill and crushed a parked car, authorities said.

The boulders, apparently loosened by the weekend rain, slid down
the hill near Lombard and Montgomery streets around 9:30 a.m.,
officials said. No one was hurt.

The bottom floors of a multistory condo complex at 240 Lombard
St. next to the hill has been evacuated while engineers from the
city determine if any more boulders could fall, officials said.

The car that was crushed was owned by a security guard for the
complex, said Jon Golinger, head of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers
Association, a neighborhood group.

"It is unfortunate he lost his car, but it sounds like he
protected this building," Golinger said. "If the car hadn't
been there, the rocks might have rammed the first unit of the
building."

Some of the boulders are "as large a person," Golinger said.

Crews with the city Department of Public Works will evaluate the
hill and remove the boulders, said Mindy Linetzky, a spokeswoman
for the agency.