nasty grab bag
March 24, 2013Bright 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…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Laptop Lunacy
March 24, 2013Hello 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,…
mythomaniacs
March 21, 2013Tina 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…
Stop-Loss Memory
March 20, 2013Reportedly, at a little after 4 AMÂ out here on California’s north coast, the sun will cross directly over the Earth’s equator during a moment known as the vernal equinox when both day and night are…
Happy Anniversary, My Dear
March 19, 2013(Illustration found here). Ten years along and the recipients of “shock and awe” know it as a wide-awake nightmare — from the NY Times: At the pet market, Karrar Habeeb, a 22-year-old carpenter, paused, surprised…
Cry Baby
March 18, 2013Personally, 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…
Weekend Time Blurp
March 15, 2013Here we are again — Friday! High overcast this morning on California’s north coast and in getting ready for the weekend the weather for me doesn’t really play a part. The weekend is for catching…
Nightmare Dream Eternal
March 14, 2013Thick 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…
A familiar stink
March 13, 2013Overcast and quiet this early Wednesday morning here on California’s north coast — either low clouds or high fog, I can’t tell the difference only that there’s no stars in sight. And this the middle…
War Never-Ending
March 12, 2013Overcast and still warm this way-early Tuesday morning on California’s north coast, and if the recent past is any indication, this day will either be foggy, sunny or a mixture of both — who’s to…