So as I try to get myself jazzed for what comes now, as the last project has seen its official end*, I found something that relates to the old work: an assessment of different cities’ plans for the inevitable inundation to come. In a nutshell:
Rotterdam: Imagine Venice with pot cafes…
Venice: Hey, the whole ruins motif worked for Rome, so why not…?
London: And if these barriers don’t work, there’s always Oxford upstream…
Miami: Oh yeah, we’re screwed, but hey, we’re Miami, we can make this work for us…
New York: Yeah, we got a plan, youse got a problem with that? Huh?
Bangladesh: We had problems before we had this sheit to deal with…
Maldives: What, you didn’t know we had a problem looming? What kind of colonial bastard are you?
Bangkok: Yeah, like you really care about us…
Cuba: As if you ever thought about us…
Mbeere: As if you ever heard about us…
Proof that yes, the novel may end, but the issues may go on well after the “-30-” date…
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* Mind you, as I say “end,” there’s a few things that nag at the back of my mind, among them:
– Where mothers who abandon their daughters can go in a post-climate-changed America
– How readily a big enough launch can navigate the waters among the islands of Nunavut
– How much global cooling we can see from potential nuclear strikes that hit the Russian and the Chinese industrial centers
– What a post climate-challenged Caribbean might look like when the word gets too hot, and then suddenly too cold
– How much hate mail I’m going to get from teasing you all this badly and blatantly…
(Here’s where we see who really reads this and who just casually checks in…)
James Ryan 
How about a Jenny & the Pirates of Buffalo Book II? There’s a lot more for her to do! 🙂
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