Pump Pressure
June 30, 2011Once again, another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep yesterday, the pump price now at $4.09 a gallon for regular, down a whole dime since the last visit 10 days ago. Gas prices are dropping,…
Monthly Archives: June 2011
‘Run Away, Run Away’ — The King is Reanimated!
June 29, 2011“Well, we’ll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit’s dynamite. — Graham Chapman as King Arthur in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail‘ By way-far, Monty Python was (and still is) the most original, outlandish…
The Faucet (And The Clock) Is Running
June 28, 2011Always a skeptic, and although never a doubt about global warming, the speed in which this shit will strike hard at everyone’s daily lives has always seemed a bit understated. Report after report, study after…
No Soul
June 27, 2011One of the most-horrible stories in a long, long list of horrible stories coming from war waged nowadays: Insurgents tricked an 8-year-old girl in a remote area of central Afghanistan into carrying a bomb wrapped…
Shakespeare the Stoner
June 26, 2011Standing on the corner Suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset and jane is in her vest And me I’m in a rock and roll band Riding in a stutz bearcat jim Those…
Re-brand the Brand
June 25, 2011Apparently, the late Osama bin Laden was tired of his brand name — al-Qaeda just didn’t have the kick and the joke-juice necessary to kill the crowd. All organizations from time-to-time have to take a…
Change We Can Believe In
June 24, 2011Remember all those most-wonderful slogans bubbling up from Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, like ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ and ‘Yes, We Can,” which was chanted en-mass whenever the other motto ran out of steam.…
Morning Cycles
June 23, 2011(Illustration of Edward Hopper‘s ‘Morning Sun‘ found here). Here we are on a wee-early Thursday morning trying to slop through the night’s news and nothing other than the usual war, pestilence and grief, with much…
Premature Extraction — Drawdown Everlasting
June 22, 2011Actually, when you think about it, this country has had a manhood problem for some time. You can tell the language we use; language always gives us away. What did we do wrong in Vietnam?…
Dropping Acid
June 21, 2011Sitting here along California’s northern coast on a quiet Tuesday morning — the first day of summer — the world’s largest ocean continues its massive movement a couple of miles away, and even way out…