Way-Whimsy
August 17, 2012Quiet and sad this morning up here on California’s north coast, with the ugliest of ugly shit falling like scalding rain all over everywhere else, it seems. This planet is wedged into a gnarly pickle.…
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
Collapse And Nowhere to run
August 8, 2012Foggy, quiet and a bit chilly again this morning up here on California’s north coast, the same ordinary for us the last few weeks — can’t remember the last time I woke up to clear…
Butterfly Dread
August 5, 2012Another of the ‘canary in a coal mine‘ motif, this one via butterflies. Two years ago in the UK, a bunch of people calling themselves ‘citizen scientists,’ took part in the first Big Butterfly Count…
Return of the Scribe
August 5, 2012Quiet this morning up here along California’s northern coast with the sun trying in vain to slither through an Old Testament-looking sky, featuring epic clouds and small patches of clear blue way up yonder. A…
Cheap Friday
July 27, 2012Another Friday morning, but I’m not feeling it this week. Old, twitching health problems have spring up this morning, complicating a fragile, personal ecosystem — and making the end of the work week more than…
Dying Flowers For Our Children
July 25, 2012Another morning and another middle of the week — no horrible news to report this morning as I slept in an extra hour, just the continued death of life as we know it. Fog covers…
Dress for Success — Parched Earth Edition
July 19, 2012Urban Word of the Day: Successorize Noun: Item of clothing or apparel used to make you look or feel more successful In the way-near future, clothes and success will constitute whether one lives or dies…
Mitten Lost
July 17, 2012Raining up here on California’s northern coast this morning, but unlike Babbling Brook Benton, I don’t feel like it’s raining all over the world. Mitt Romney might, however. Watching this wealthy nut-ball roll across the…
Performing Life and Somehow Laughing About It
July 15, 2012One of my daughters is doing something special tonight — she’ll be appearing in a comedy revue at the Bongo After Hours Theatre in Nashville, Tenn., as a part of a continuing series, ‘That Time…
‘Encounters’ and ‘Keystone Kops’
July 15, 2012Fog fairly thick this morning along California’s northern coast, listening to the TV as I work my laptop — nubile financial expert Paul Ryan on ‘Face the Nation‘ and blubber-blundering about Mitt Romney’s nefarious everything…