The Paradox of ‘Cool’
May 2, 2015In the light of Baltimore and America’s racial tensions right now, the source of ‘cool‘ really not so cool — from Philosophy Now: ‘The aesthetics of cool developed mainly as a behavioral attitude practiced by…
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Hillary on the Refrigerator Door
April 12, 2015Bright sunshine sparkled by a brisk ocean breeze this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast, and quiet, except for the occasional neighbor-kid noise. Meanwhile, back far to the east, an aging sun made some noise,…
‘Mind Wandering’ — Mental Selfies
April 8, 2015Spied this article last weekend from Psychology Today, which explained somewhat the perpetual narrative in my own brain, and current, actual state of my mental state — keynote: One of the original pieces of research…
Job One — A Damn-Decent Wage
April 3, 2015Thinly-overcast this early Friday morning on California’s north coast, producing some faded sunshine, which is better than none at all. And the wind is down, too, also a game-changer this close to the shoreline —…
Smart — Not!
April 1, 2015Bright and chilly this early Wednesday, the first day of April, and the day of the dullard and cretin, full of the ridiculously inadequate. A huge difference in heat, between overcast/ground fog, and a crystal-clear…
Time Clocks ‘Urgently’
January 30, 2015Thick, gray clouds, hanging low this early Friday on California’s north coast — and a bit on the cold side, too, with a slight, chilled breeze. Supposedly, though, we’re to receive heavy sunshine sometime today,…
Watershed Year — Again
December 30, 2014(Note: This is a re-post of mine from seven years ago, and as it’s end of the year again, appropriate in these timeline-memory stories. The original piece appeared here — my way-abandoned Website — on Dec.…
Ontological Anniversary
December 7, 2014Today marks the 73rd commemoration of the ‘Day of Infamy,’ the Japanese bombing of the US Naval Base at Peal Harbor. In a ceremony this morning, more than 50 WWII veterans remembered Dec. 7, 1941,…
Rain Fingers
November 29, 2014Rain on-and-off, sometimes heavy-on, and a bit of a chill this early Saturday on California’s north coast — still in the wet-midst of a statewide encompassing winter-like storm, which supposedly will last into next week.…
Cakewalk Creep Keeps Creeping
November 13, 2014Rain showers with some a now-and-again wave of thin-tinted bright this afternoon — nothing out of the ordinary, just a weather system struggling across the north coast of California, with that occasional drifting-hole in the…