A gentle spring rain this morning on California’s north coast, quiet and soft like a baby’s bottom — warm, too, like a full diaper. If this was the weekend, good sleeping weather. But it’s only Thursday and it’s just wet. And because of last night, I will face the horror before the weekend: A jackpot of $475 million ranks as the second largest in Powerball history and third biggest overall. No Read More ...
High fog, low drizzle this way-too-early Wednesday here on California’s north coast, creating a dull-bummer this morning, despite the speed of the week. Hard to imagine we’re already reaching the weekend’s gravity pull. And internal-combustion engines are not only destroying the environment, but is emaciating time: In the country’s most gridlocked cities, commuters wasted an average of 42 hours sitting in traffic in 2012, the equivalent of one week of Read More ...
Bright and sunny this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast, and the dreaded wind hasn’t kicked-up as of yet, so the air is warm and easy. Despite Spring being sprung last week, the US midsection is still in the cold stages with a snow-dump forecasted from Kansas to maybe Washington, DC: Add winds gusting up to 40 mph and you get one wintry mess. However, March Madness is set to bracket the Read More ...
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and guns: “I believe that if everybody had guns, then there would be fewer guns in the stores.” (Illustration found here). The interview with Fey came this week from Inside The Actors Studio, hosted by James Lipton on Bravo (my excerpt via Mediaite), and most-assuredly reflects in a most-hilarious way the total disconnect the right wing of US politics has on reality of life. And, of 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 ...
Cloudy and rainy this Saturday morning on California’s north coast, creating an Old Testament-gothic-like feeling of sadness and depression. Except — just now seen from my back patio, a small hole opening in the thick-cloud layer, sun streams pouring through in awesome Cecil D. Demille fashion, dramatic and soul stirring, even beautiful. Reality, however, burns the eyeballs: Those at the top are seeing their wages rebound quite strongly in the Read More ...
Wet, chilly and highly-gothic here on California’s northern coast this Saturday evening, drizzling rain since early on, creating a sad, thoughtful sense of purpose. Surfing the news sites seeking attention for my seemingly near-insatiable, up-to-the-second addiction for current events, apparently life seemingly has flat-lined as we crawl out from under the hideous holiday season — from Thanksgiving (maybe even since Hal-loo-ween) and onto New Years Day, a quick-blast of counterfeit Read More ...
A bit of thin, high overcast this early Thursday morning on California’s northern coast, allowing the near-half moon to glimmer through the clouds — and it’s cold, too. In this particular set-up, I haven’t seen any of the Quadrantid meteor shower which is supposed to be burning through earth’s upper layers this morning, creating a flare-show of about 100 meteors an hour, but off my back patio and high overhead Read More ...
Clear and cold this morning along California’s northern coast, this the absolute-last day of 2012, which in relation to previous years, wasn’t all that great, and apparently won’t end graciously, either. The word, “weather,” will be one of the words used to describe the dying 2012, not only in the meteorological format, but also in the sense we’ve endured shit in the face of adversity and are still here — Read More ...
Heavy-overcast and chilly here this Friday morning along California’s northern coast, starting off the last weekend of 2012 — a year quickly, darkly. And don’t expect things to get better in three days — only worse. Faithful words via Mr. George Carlin: So the next time some asshole says to you, “I have a right to my opinion,” you say, “Oh yeah? Well, I have a right to my opinion, and Read More ...
