By Billy Miller Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys is sitting in a cafe in downtown Manhattan, drinking carrot, beet, and kale juice. He is taking slow, drawn-out sips. Every few minutes he pauses to extract a clot of seaweed-like matter from his mouth. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys is sidling up the Walk Of Fame in Hollywood, California. The sunshine casts these entertainment footnotes in a bril- liant glow.
Air quality is moderate.
To our left, a homeless man with a gray beard like a wire brush digs through a trash can for something to eat. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys is in Mexico City, Mexico, putting on an oxygen mask during a stage-four smog alert. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys is boarding a helicopter in Tsaina Lodge, Alaska for one last run of untracked powder. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys is on a Himalayan trail in Nepal, fighting off oxygen depletion behind the Sherpas carrying his gear. That was last winter.