Friday again! Time is traveling at seemingly breakneck speeds nowadays and here we stand on the threshold of another weekend, with the living warm and overcast up here on California’s north coast — and it can’t come any sooner. This past month has been dramatic — the Boston bombings, the shoot down of a gun bill, a near-nuclear explosion in Texas, the death of more than a thousand people in Read More ...
Patchy cloud cover this early Wednesday allows a few twinkling stars to peek through and later maybe the sun will arise like thunder — up here on California’s north coast, however, the shine will most-likely be only a squeaky peek. The weather’s been quiet around these parts lately, but that don’t mean it ain’t screaming somewhere. In the flow of the powerful news cycle these days concerns ‘scandal,’ which means Read More ...
Clear and warm this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — the low-roar sound of the peaceful Pacific seems to come from afar, though, the ocean is only a mile or two away. Noise depends on the air. And in DC, the din has become nearly oppressive. President Obama has most-likely shit in his mess kit, even if he doesn’t know it yet. In the wake of the GOP facade-attempt Read More ...
Deep ground fog this early Monday on California’s north coast and will most-likely burn off before too long — another ‘normal‘ day fashioning itself. Quiet and still — a facade to the upcoming work week that will most-likely produce more bat-shit crazy. The good, ole US of A is one messed-up place — Shannon Roberts at Interim LSU Hospital in New Orleans yesterday afternoon: “All innocent bystanders got hit…When I got Read More ...
Sunday morning up here on California’s northern coast and the living is cool. And the hunt for triple-homicide suspect Shane Miller continues just south of where I’m at — he’s charged with killing his wife and two daughters last week over in Shasta County, about 200 miles east of here. Miller knows the area and has a certain expertise with firearms. In 1996, he was convicted of marijuana cultivation and in Read More ...
I mentioned this last week and its approach (via National Geographic): An instrument near the summit of Mauna Loa in Hawaii has recorded a long-awaited climate milestone: the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere there has exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in 55 years of measurement — and probably more than 3 million years of Earth history. (Illustration found here). And this is just 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 ...
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 ...
Despite all that I could do, it’s Monday again — the weekend ends way-too quick. Clear skies, however, and quiet here on California’s north coast. And we start another plunge into what’s called ‘making a living,’ which depends deeply on the key word, ‘living,’ and will work our asses off for the next five days until we strike Friday afternoon in the face. No surprises in store except continual shock 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 ...
