Hello, this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — instead of the usual news-based post on some near-pertinent something-or-another (I do love hyphens), this is another plea to buy my novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With…
In the near-onslaught of news cycles full of doom and woe this past week, I overlooked a nifty, positive note that brought a chuckle — the prophecy from “Community” of six seasons and a movie…
In the flash of time, there’s always room for pleading a case for literary sympathy — one more time a request to purchase my novel on Amazon. Self-published in March, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold…
Here we are, shamelessly and audaciously without an ounce of any marketing savvy, crying for you as readers of this blog — that handful of sad intellectuals off the vast InterWebs — to buy my…
As half the year has glided by seemingly in a flash full of shit news and real-life weirdness, I need to escape the wiles and worries of the nowadays and drown myself in some ‘rain-prominent‘…
As we wait for the reported appearance of Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to the nit-witted, nefarious Mark Meadows, to testify live before the Jan. 6 committee hearing, expected to start in about an hour, let’s…
Hot and getting hotter this noonish-time Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — weather the weather. And a way to handle the weather of news and weather itself (drought and summer) is TV shows/series that…
(Illustration: ‘John Dean nears the end of reading his 245-page prepared statement before the Senate Watergate Committee in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 1973′ — image found here). In context of this month’s 50th anniversary…
End of another weekend, and close to the end of a month, plus, close to the heat of summer — not so bad outside this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, warmish, but breezy…
As we approach the midterms, the biggest obstacle in the way of democracy being upheld is the real rule of journalism — tell the actual, f*cking truth. A nifty, right-on piece directed at the root…