Bits and dangerous pieces
June 27, 2013Heavy ground fog this way-early Thursday along California’s north coast, and way-quiet, too. The usual noise from the Pacific Ocean, only about a mile or so away, can’t be heard at all. Up high, though,…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Psychopathic poses
June 26, 2013Raining and kind of gloomy this morning on California’s north coast — the weather isn’t the only passing fancy that sucks. Reality and fiction are apparently one and the same nowadays. A shitload of people…
Infernal combustible
June 25, 2013News is hurdling along this Tuesday PM: Ed Snowden may now be a “tasty morsel” for Vladimir Putin, and much more; President Obama offered up supposedly a heavy-duty, ‘sweeping plan,‘ to fight climate change, but cited…
Snowed
June 25, 2013Raining again this Tuesday morning on California’s north coast and the world keeps right-on skipping to a drumming noise on the roof, or is that the news media? As we speak (or write), Ed Snowden’s…
‘Surveillance is just shit with two eyes’
June 24, 2013Raining but warm this early Monday on California’s north coast and this whole week is forecast to be all wet. We all need the water, though. And meanwhile, the whole world has gone ape shit…
flight of the snow bird
June 23, 2013This morning, news cycles were delightfully alighted with reports Ed Snowden had gone on the lamb, international style, a fare-thee well to Hong Kong, and after an airline flight across some vast open spaces, ended…
Urgency past
June 23, 2013Drizzling rain this Sunday morning along California’s north coast as a storm front is making its way across the region — the next couple of days we’re supposed to get almost an inch of rain,…
sexennial celebration — sort of
June 22, 2013Today is Saturday — six years ago it was a Friday: June 22, 2007. My first day on the job at the liquor store I now manage. The owner was then involved in a overwrought,…
factoid ‘west wing’
June 21, 2013Watching a TV series in continuous fashion, one episode after another without waiting a week in between — online video streaming — is really a remarkable way to enjoy stuff. Instead of a long wait…
‘Inadvertently’ Overheard
June 21, 2013Overcast and a bit warm this Friday morning as we head into another weekend — time flies when given time. Today, of course, is the first day of summer — the Summer Solstice — and…