Craig Pittman
Writer at Freelance
WELCOME TO FLORIDA now available for pre-order! Other books: NYT bestseller OH, FLORIDA! & CAT TALE. Columnist, Florida Phoenix. Florida man.
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1 week ago |
floridaphoenix.com | Craig Pittman
Before last week, I’d never heard of the frosted flatwoods salamander. Now that I have, I think it’s kind of cool. It’s a wiggly little amphibian with black-and-white stripes, sort of like if you crossed a zebra with one of those lizards that race across your porch. These salamanders used to live all over the South. Now they’ve vanished from most of the places where they once existed.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Craig Pittman
A frosted flatwoods salamander, held by a biologist from the Amphibian and Reptile Conservatory. Before last week, I’d never heard of the frosted flatwoods salamander. Now that I have, I think it’s kind of cool. It’s a wiggly little amphibian with black-and-white stripes, sort of like if you crossed a zebra with one of those lizards that race across your porch. These salamanders used to live all over the South. Now they’ve vanished from most of the places where they once existed.
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2 weeks ago |
floridaphoenix.com | Craig Pittman
When I was a kid growing up in Pensacola, I’d come home from school and immediately turn on “The Big Show” on WKRG-TV. The avuncular host, Max Goodman, showed a lot of ’50s monster movies, and that’s where I learned about the transformative power of radioactivity. Those movies taught me that radiation can make a normal-sized octopus into a sucker-armed giant (“It Came from Beneath the Sea,” 1955). It can turn a lot of little ants into a really big insect army (“Them!” 1954).
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Craig Pittman
An early phosphate mine in the Bone Valley region of Central Florida. (Photo via Florida State Archives)When I was a kid growing up in Pensacola, I’d come home from school and immediately turn on “The Big Show” on WKRG-TV. The avuncular host, Max Goodman, showed a lot of ’50s monster movies, and that’s where I learned about the transformative power of radioactivity.
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3 weeks ago |
floridaphoenix.com | Craig Pittman
Back in the 1990s, when I was on the criminal court beat, I sat through more murder trials than Perry Mason and Ben Matlock combined. Every case concerned a tragedy, but occasionally there were moments of comedy. One case involved two hitmen who were so inept, they got lost trying to find their target in St. Petersburg. They were so lost, they wound up in Tampa. There was another murder trial of sorts recently that involved inept killers. In April, it reached its startling conclusion.
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