Foggy and overcast this way-too-early Monday with another work week staring me straight in the face — the only consolation is it will be Friday again before anyone really notices. Time seems to slow just a hair on the weekend, then blasts off again into the week. Little-known off-the-wall factoid: The average respondent in the survey spent 34 minutes moaning on a Monday morning, compared to just 22 minutes during   Read More ...

A most-marvelous event this afternoon: My daughter, Hannah Maulden, graduated from Middle Tennessee State University. PROUD doesn’t describe the emotion. She’s spent nearly five years getting to this point and through hard work, and more hard work, made it through to the end. And to top that, Hannah graduated magna cum laude (GPA — 3.75-3.89). Hannah will attend grad school at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, this   Read More ...

Foggy and a bit on the chilly side this early Thursday on California’s north coast, no stars, no wind, no sound. So quiet, it must be quiet all over the world. Wrong! Much of the news recently has been shittier than dog poo — and a number of these items are headline only stories, with details jamming just too much pressure on the left side of the fearful brain. In   Read More ...

(Illustration of Ulf Buschmann‘s ‘Laundromat‘ found here). Again another Sunday, Now this morning bright sunshine and warm — storms toiling elsewhere. Oh, for sure back at the laundromat, Weekly visits to thee I sing, Just spring-load the quarters, flutters My brain in the Mood To wash my blues away. A poetic blurb from doing my laundry earlier today. Just a random sample of some written ramblings jotted down while waiting   Read More ...

My daughter, Hannah, will put shame aside another time this weekend. She’s to perform again her stand-up spiel on crazed life, loves, and her wacky family — a performance part of the ‘That Time of the Month‘ comedy revue at the Cafe Coco in Nashville, Tenn. And a good laugh is way-much preferred than a good slap on the noodle. TTOTM is the brainchild of writer/comedian Melanie Vare, and billed as   Read More ...

Bong it or not, US peoples are seemingly taking a more-advanced view of marijuana — pot, grass, wacky-tobacky, ‘bud,’ smoke, and to the straights/intellects: cannabis. A most-interesting survey out last week from Pew Research, a new high in a 40-year history: A national survey finds that 52 percent say that the use of marijuana should be made legal while 45 percent say it should not. Support for legalizing marijuana has   Read More ...

Raining again this way-early Friday morning on California’s north coast, and warm, too. We need the rain, and the heat takes the bite out of getting quickly soaked. Water and warmth, which together create a way-rainy future, as reported yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): The study also showed a 20-30 percent expected increase in the maximum precipitation possible over large portions of the Northern Hemisphere by   Read More ...

Personally, I’m pretty-much sick and tired of the fuckin’ public. As manager of a liquor store, I’ve seen just about every kind of asshole, listened to way-too many deplorably-sad stories, and encountered a general mass of people who in recent times have become so delusional, and so fucked-completely-up, it’s really hard to fathom. And it ain’t just the characters ingesting cheap booze and cigarettes, this public includes educated, seemingly-intelligent readers of the   Read More ...

Ground fog, but clear skies this early Friday morning along California’s northern coast, and it feels like it’s a warmer, too. buffoon Should be a good weekend up here, but back eastward it’s way-Arctic-cold for the upcoming holiday weekend and President Obama’s double-billed second inauguration — he takes the oath of office on Sunday in a private ceremony at the White House, and the public ceremony Monday on the Capitol   Read More ...

Raining and a bit gloomy here this early Thursday morning along California’s northern coast, another day in the life. And life in the US, despite all the cliff-hangers, is mostly happy…but that could be the problem: What they found is that as people place more importance on being happy, they become more unhappy and depressed. The pressure to be happy makes people less happy. Organizing your life around trying to   Read More ...