War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
She would have been a neat person to hang out with, always interesting, always entertaining, conversations on a shitload of topics — if she could’ve spoke unfettered, and been herself. Emily Dickinson was most-likely a great self entertainer, too. Writers are weird, and poets worse of all. And just from what I’ve gathered about her,…
Early Thursday here on California’s north coast with the weekend in absolute-full view now. Seems the old blog site has some problems — my IT guy had to move some ether-shit around and transferred Compatible Creatures to ‘a new host,’ which sounds much-like some science-fiction-horror movie involving weird, flat worms. Or something. (Illustration found here).…
(Illustration found here). Welcome to the new look — small changes in a different way, but with the same nit-twit in charge. A different face coupled with that unique, gratuitous and sensual literary effort. Ha!
Heavy ground fog this early Wednesday on California’s north coast as the middle of the work week looms and we get ready for the weekend. One must think work is shitty if all one does is think of the weekend — right we are. Last week, the NSAÂ got totally-busted at the University of Wisconsin during…
Sixty years is not so long — I’m five years older, Ha! Chevrolet Corvette — It was a gold idea that almost became a disaster and now is an icon representing the best of General Motors. The car, almost unbelievably, has survived six decades and is about to begin its seventh. This weekend is the celebration…
This 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 up this evening in Moscow, where he apparently staged some stealth moves to avoid detection — a story unfolding like…
Today 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, emotional collapse of his marriage and hired me on the spot — I proceeded behind the counter and haven’t left.…
Since the election last November, the US has witnessed maybe a watershed shift with life in America, and especially the view of President Obama. Just a bit more than a month after the polls had closed was Sandy Hook Elementary — which ‘celebrated‘ a six-month anniversary yesterday. And following closely, shit-bird crisis after shit-bird crisis,…
Yipee! Friday! Overcast and gloomy again this morning on California’s north coast, but like yesterday and the day before and the day before that, the sun will come and all will be happy. Still high in the news cycle, the NSA spying bullshit continues to plague the Obama White House and has turned the DC…
“Fort Meade has 18 acres of mainframe computers underground. You’re talking to your wife on the phone and you use the word ‘bomb,’ ‘president,’ ‘Allah,’ any of a hundred keywords, the computer recognizes it, automatically records it, red-flags it for analysis. That was 20 years ago.” — Former CIA Agent Brill, ‘Enemy of the State‘…