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 ...
Here we are getting close to the end of another work week — overcast and warm this Thursday morning on California’s north coast — and life apparently has seen better days. A sense of rage against the machinery. The feeling a terrible end is just around the corner, but no one seems to give a shit, a vast swath of collective heads buried in concrete up to the neck. Quiet Read More ...
Hello from the past. I’ve been involuntarily offline since Thursday — this laptop is a most-baffling mystery to me. Regular readers might recall my near-new laptop (and another functioning old one) were stolen in January, and I went out and found this used two-year-old Dell, which began to have problems, too. The Start Up program got shot to shit, or it malfunctioned, or was eaten, or whatever. Despite repeated attempts Read More ...
Thick ground fog and a deep quiet this early Thursday morning on California’s north coast — an obscuring haze seemingly covering the whole, wide world. Especially in DC. President Obama’s so-called “charm offensive” with House Republicans lost its glitter on the likes of John ‘The Boner’ Boehner, who blubbered all kinds of negatives after meeting with the president: “But having said that, today was a good start, and I hope Read More ...
Rain pattering down here this morning on California’s northern coast with a forecast scheduling thunderstorms and cold winds — same as yesterday, but here at the edge of the Pacific, Monday turned out clear, sunny and kind of warm. The rain today is expected to be heavy at times, even with some hail thrown-in for good measure, and the occasional lightening. Although we haven’t really encountered much total rain this Read More ...
Stuff you just hate when you get up in the morning — no cigarettes anywhere, no coffee, no clean clothes, an ex with a nasty landline-phone message, and the laptop acting like a twisted-up asshole. This morning it was the latter. And this stuff I just don’t understand how it happens — closed everything down last night just like ordinary, but got up this morning and complete chaos. All my Read More ...
(Illustration found here). In this era of pure nonsensical bullshit: Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth’s superb surprise; As lightning to the children eased With explanation kind, The truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind. – Emily Dickinson, ‘Tell All The Truth‘ From the prolific Bill McKibben, his take last week on a major event Read More ...
As if on cue late yesterday afternoon, a thick, moist portion of coastal fog descended upon my little stretch of northern California coastline and eliminated any view of the rare annular solar eclipse which swiped across these parts on its course from Asia. In the quick descending fog, which filled a sunlight sky in a flash — I was watching Mick Jagger on SNL (via HULU) and loving the Jeff Read More ...
In the neurotic groundswell last week of the absorption of gay people and the bullies that define the genre, the wars overseas have lost a lot of its news flavor with American audiences, despite the fact young GIs are still killing and dying over there — now they’re being made dead by their Afghan comrade-at-arms. On Friday, an Afghan solider shot and killed a US soldier and wounded two others, Read More ...
In this past winter of our heated content, all those warm, blissful days in February and March — TVed from Chicago, New York and all points east — them soothing temperatures also created an incubator for weird, and possibly some bad shit. Dr Alison Donnelly of Trinity College Dublin’s Centre for the Environment on the near-simplicity of near-abrupt climate change: “We are seeing a very clear signal and seeing the effects Read More ...
