War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Orange sunshine this early Friday on California’s north coast with more fog/smoke skies that have become commonplace the last few weeks, considered ‘haze, for lack of a better term. All those forest fires blazing through the interior have created surreal cloud cover with ‘orange’ sunshine slicing through on occasion — and adding to the comfort…
Seventy years ago today, and of “the most terrible bomb in the history of the world”, via Hiroshi Sawachik, a 28-year-old Army doctor then working in Hiroshima: “The smell was quite strong. It’s a sad reality that the smell human beings produce when they are burned is the same as that of the dried squid when…
Near-noon this Thursday with another one of those hallucinogenic cloud covers — a bit of marine fog, and maybe a whole-lot of drifting smoke, creating a surreal ambiance. Nearly-pure jaundice look to the weak-as-shit sunshine, whenever it appears. A good round-up for right now on the forest fires burning east, south and beyond us can…
(Illustration: ‘Wine Glass,’ by BrillianceDisplay, found here). Even as California gets scorched by some big wildfires, one easing off the fire-fighting radar is the Wragg Fire down in Napa County’s wine country — sparked in late July, and after burning nearly 8,000 acres was this morning considered 98 percent contained. During early stages of the…
Overcast seemingly lisping away to ‘partly sunny’ near-noon this Wednesday on California’s north coast — already some direct sunlight, so the weird-ass skies the last few days might be drawing to an end. Yet not — the forest fires burning just to the east and south of us continues nearly unchecked, especially the Mad River Complex…
Fog and smoke in the skies again this Tuesday afternoon along California’s north coast — gloomy, surrealistic clouds with no direct sunshine today at all as the marine layer plays second-fiddle to burning trees. Lake County continues to burn nearly out of control — even with some rain: ‘Cal Fire spokesman Jason Shanley says the rain…
Oddly-ominous overcast along California’s north coast this Monday afternoon, and beyond the cheap alliterated verbiage, the environment appears going up in smoke. Four hours south, down In Lake County is an original freaked, forested fireball (via Santa Rosa’s Press Democrat): “Never happened before,” said Scott Lindgren, Cal Fire incident commander for the 54,000-acre blaze that…
Illusory skies again this Monday morning as our marine layer whisking along California’s north coast is seemingly freakishly tainted with smoke from forest fires still raging within the interior — 21 wildfires statewide, a big chunk up here in the north. One firefighter killed in the last week, and a shitload suffering heat exhaustion — a…
Fogged-in this Sunday morning on California’s north coast — most-likely a portion of the marine layer mixed with ringed westward smoke from ‘tinderbox’ forests. As we burn, an apparent warning: The lede from a piece last Thursday by writer/photographer Subhankar Banerjee at TomDispatch: The wettest rainforest in the continental United States had gone up in…
