Terror Tariffs: Bank It!
February 2, 2025Clear and a bit chilly this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — no matter how you look at it, in the morning we’ll face another Monday. If we survive the night, that is…
Category Archives: History
Watershed Moment: ‘Without Even Seeing What I Was Blogging About She Asked Me What I Thought About The coup. So Yeah’
February 1, 2025Drizzling rain this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — supposedly a few days of wet ahead. A good thing considering wildfires, drought, and such I haven’t posted much lately. Even if you just…
Tomorrow — ‘Shock And Awe’
January 19, 2025(Image: ‘Vibrant Emotional Art,’ generated by AI, and found here.) Early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley. The day before the shit hits the fan in real-time, and in an official capacity — no longer…
Creature Of Corruption
January 7, 2025Bright, though, already fading sunshine this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. And from all indications while out in the backyard just a while ago taking a couple of tokes on the old pipe,…
Nefarious Chaos
December 20, 2024Cold and foggy this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — although there’s still some daylight flickering, it’s a gloomy, dark-shadowed end to another work week in this festered era of non-seasonal melancholy. Seemingly,…
‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’
November 26, 2024Thick-colorless, gloomy-rainy skies bathed in a downer-gray, ash-flavored ambiance this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. A few words right up front guaranteed to immediately bring you right down. However, young Neil begs to…
Two Weeks Later — Still Shitsville (And Maybe Worse)
November 18, 2024Clear-blue skies and plenty of sunshine this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — the beautiful outside is way-tempered by chilled-ass wind bursts, which conspired with mid-50s temps to create in real-time/real-life the first…
Screaming Soundlessly
November 6, 2024(Illustration out front: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here.) This early-evening Wednesday is still too premature to adequately address the absolute horror shock from this morning. I turned out the lights last night before going…
Day-Before-The-Day: Ballot-Box Disquietude
November 4, 2024Bright sunshine tempered with chilled temperatures this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley. If this is Monday, tomorrow is tomorrow no matter how you look at it. Of course, it will be Tuesday, and,…
Teri Garr — RIP
October 29, 2024Sad news well-circulated by now — Teri Garr died today at her home in LA. She was 79. She was a sweet-acting, funny actress who nailed a near-60-year career. As I posted about Stevie Nicks’s…