Home Grown
April 23, 2013Clear skies this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — the moon a white light in the western sky. Weather that’s true or not, who’s to say? Indeed, as the dust settles a bit off…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Criminal
April 22, 2013A week later here on this way-early Monday — the trauma of the last few days still pretty intense even if the bloodied dust has settled. Now the bullshit begins. Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead, his…
Weather a week’s tale
April 20, 2013Another Saturday, another week gone-on-down the road. These past days, though, have been one for the so-called books; a near-literary, five part mini series starting Monday and ending yesterday, tied together by one crazy, weirdly-related,…
Chaos continues
April 19, 2013(Illustration: Boston bombing suspects; white-hat guy still at large, the other, dead — found here). If those two deranged clowns pictured above truly are the Boston marathon bombers, that photo will become an iconic-terror symbol,…
Gun but no rose
April 18, 2013Here 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…
By any other name
April 17, 2013Doc: Why do you let this cracker follow you around? Troy: He’s a good kid. Doc: He’s a wall-eyed cracker. Troy: He’s got no high school, man, he’s from a group home in Jackson —…
Tortured Terror
April 16, 2013Clear and a bit chilly here on California’s northern coast this early Tuesday, though, when that wind kicks up later in the morning, the environment will get downright cold. Yesterday was kind of a shit…
Nuts Monday
April 15, 2013Well, here it is again, another early Monday on California’s north coast with the skies nearly clear, and maybe even more warm than it will be in a couple of hours. And after a too-short…
socially insecure — ‘the cat food index’
April 14, 2013One recent political, ricochet-rabbit-bombshell has been President Obama’s budget proposal — bits of it leaked two weeks ago, the whole shebang officially released last Wednesday — parts of which include cuts to Social Security through…
Girl, you stand up!
April 13, 2013My daughter, Hannah, will put shame aside another time this weekend. She’s to perform again her stand-up spiel on crazed life, loves, and her wacky family — a performance part of the ‘That Time of…