War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Agonizing Horse,’ found here). A gray-white overcast and chilled sky this late Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast, the dark approaches. Fairly-deep fog this morning when I walked the dogs (or the dogs walked me) out on the Ma-le’l Dunes, the southern unit, and it was more-than-nice; the dogs loved it —…
(Illustration: Donald Trump, ‘Basic Shapes,‘ by caricaturist/illustrator Chong Jit Leong, found here). Cloudy and a bit chilly this Monday evening on California’s north coast, dark and overcast all day, though, some faded-weak sunshine appeared later in the afternoon, and more sun forecast for tomorrow — decent rain storm scheduled to start on Friday, supposedly lasting…
(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Hell Canto 2: Giants,’ found here). Overcast and foggy this Wednesday evening on California’s north coast, forecasters claimed maybe some drizzle, too, but none yet. In a short little time frame, we did get some sunshine in mid-afternoon, but the bright spell didn’t last long. Pretty cold, though… Another aspect of cold is…
Cold and bright this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast with lots of sunshine, but chilled-out temperatures — high supposedly just 51 and down close to freezing temperatures last night, and probably again tonight. No rain forecast until a week from tomorrow… Way-way ahead of its time — sadly ‘only‘ two years ago: Some old near-forgotten…
(Illustration found here). Sunshine Monday here on California’s north coast and bright skies, though, tempered by a chilled breeze, tapered only by a wind block, maybe a house or building — I walked to Safeway for the first time this afternoon in like a shitload of days it feels like, but probably less than a…
(Illustration found here). Rainy and chilly this Sunday evening on California’s north coast — the environment of dreary. Our only home is self-destructing — our only outside is changing rapidly from livable to unlivable. Via today’s Time: President Donald Trump mocked climate change again on Sunday, just days after the Department of Defense released a…
(Illustration: ‘President Trump,’ by Jonathan Bass, found here). Rainy and chilly this Saturday evening here on California’s north coast — forecast calls for sunshine and warmth starting Monday, maybe lasting a week to 10 days.. Getting so I’m not happy with rain day-after-day… Weathering the T-Rump is a bumpy ride, and it’s always raining some…
(Illustration: ‘Art Critic‘ by Norman Rockwell, found here). Wet, chilly and dark this Friday evening on California’s north coast, and a bad case of sad. Bad let-down, to say the least. I kind of knew/felt it was too good to be true — tonight at the New York Times, and yes, piss-and-moan: The rare public…
(Illustration: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here). Dark and gloomy this Thursday evening here on California’s north coast, in the middle of a two-day storm, rain and lightening this morning, sunshine this afternoon — the second half of this weather encounter supposedly tomorrow with more rain and thunderstorms. Next week’s forecast is sun,…
(Illustration found here). As far as our environment goes, it’s getting way-close to the now-or-we’re-fucked point — the Guardian yesterday: The study found that if all fossil fuel infrastructure — power plants, factories, vehicles, ships and planes — from now on are replaced by zero-carbon alternatives at the end of their useful lives, there is a…
