Sorrow Onward
December 16, 2012Rainy, cold and miserable this early Sunday morning here on California’s northern coast, and way-beyond ugly sad. A certain flavor in the air, not chocolate at all, but the sweet aroma of cordite — yesterday…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Day After: Sorrowful and Mad as fuckin’ shit
December 15, 2012(Illustration above found via BagNewsNotes. Artwork out front found here). Up this morning in a sad, but way-pissed mood. And like Jon Stewart’s faux news, reality and truth is way-better explained nowadays from such locations…
Meteorite Not
December 14, 2012Overcast and a drizzle-like rain this morning along California’s northern coast, which should temper any kind of look at the annual Geminid meteor shower set to sparkle down on us in the early hours. Although…
New bit of Americana: ‘active shooter scenario’
December 13, 2012When a wee-young lad, I was subject to the now-ludicrous “duck and cover drills” in school where all us students practiced what to do in case of a Soviet nuclear attack. The whole scenario was…
Love’s Labor lied
December 12, 2012Crazy-ass world we now inhabit — although it’s wet and chilly this morning up here along California’s northern coast, the weather across the US is odd-ball at best. An indication is snow fall — last…
Too late the hero
December 11, 2012Overcast with a drizzly fog this morning along California’s northern coast with rain expected some time later today. Winter here is wet, and can get cold, but considering other parts of the country, way-mild. And…
‘Let it snow, let it snow’
December 11, 2012(Illustration: Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Monday). My youngest daughter moved to Minneapolis in the fall of 2011 and that following winter was an easy snap — not much snow and not much severe weather. However, now…
ET, Guns and other assorted horrors
December 10, 2012Another clear and cold morning here on California’s northern coast, and, another way-too-quick Monday. Despite a stream of news-worthy bullshit over the weekend, especially in the highly-mis-valued “fiscal cliff” category, the American Psychiatric Association has…
Forewarned by the jury
December 9, 2012Cold and clear again this morning on California’s northern coast with more the same expected for the upcoming work-week. In with the unimpeded and out with the dumb-ass. Woke up this morning more on the…
Doha do-nothing
December 8, 2012Using the old phrase most-easily this morning, ‘the sun came up like thunder,’ a clear and quick-explosion of light greeted the day here on California’s north coast — in the wake of last week’s way-wet…