‘Go Ask Alice’
June 13, 2014Ground fog this early Friday on California’s north coast — just a little while ago, the sky was clear and a full, bright moon hung like a porthole high in the southern sky. And for…
Category Archives: Madness
Guns and No Roses
June 11, 2014(Illustration: Police escort children away from Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 2012, found here. And a shooting Tuesday at a high school in Oregon was the 74th such event since then). This is one freaked-out-crazy…
Iraq the VA
June 2, 2014High overcast and cool this early Monday on California’s north coast — time is a speeding asshole because it feels in reality like it should still be Friday afternoon. Reality in this crazed age is…
Ho-Hum Environment
May 21, 2014High overcast and a little on the chilled side this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — halfway through the work week and the sailing is choppy. The grind of daily life does get tedious.…
Hot-Choke Monday
May 12, 2014Overcast and warm this too-early Monday on California’s north coast as the weekend now becomes just another episode of history. Weather-wise, however, we’re in for some neat times this week — forecast to be in…
Sorrow
April 11, 2014Clear and chilly this early Friday on California’s north coast — the skies are twinkling with stars and a fat-sliver of the moon hangs quietly out over the Pacific. We’re supposed to have sunshine and…
Down the Dumb Hole
March 21, 2014Dark this early Friday — Duh! And high overcast with a chilled breeze on California’s north coast as we’re only hours away from a weekend. Sitting here at the laptop in these pre-dawn hours is…
Time Thoughts
March 2, 2014Low-overcast, damp and gloomy this early Sunday on California’s north coast — time cracks quickly into a new month, and asshole Santa Claus is fading further back yonder. As I sit here in relative comfort,…
‘Humanity’ — Oh, Sorry
February 13, 2014Rainy and warm this early Thursday on California’s north coast, another segment on winter 2014. And the word, ‘warm,’ is a major factor here — at 4 in the freakin’ morning, it’s near 55 degrees,…
Ferocious Frenzy in ‘Public Settings’
January 26, 2014In light of yet another shooting yesterday at the Columbia Mall in Maryland and the intense, accelerated pace in which these horrific events operate — earlier this month, a study on “active shootings in public…