Crying in the dark
August 24, 2012Crystal clear skies this early Friday morning along California’s northern coast, and near-cold, too. Odd to see stars way up high in the dark. Although the fog will most-likely roll in before sunrise — about…
Category Archives: Environment
Talking and Walking
August 23, 2012Once again, early morning here on California’s northern coast and another quiet beginning to the day — not much sunshine lately, except for some rays spattering across the landscape in the middle of the afternoons.…
Eradication — extinction via assholes
August 22, 2012(Illustration found here). Even out into the middle of the week, the shitstorm off Todd Akin’s revelation on Sunday of a female’s ability to ward off unwanted sperm still plays hard and heavy in the…
Blindsided — Not
August 19, 2012(Illustration found here). In this era of pure nonsensical bullshit: Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth’s superb surprise; As lightning to…
Urine in trouble
August 18, 2012Always been a great fan of Maurits Cornelis Escher, or just MC Escher, as he’s more-popularly known, and his artworks has always flooded my brain with all kinds of twisted and delicious images of how…
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…
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…
‘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…