War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Bright sunshine on a windy Wednesday evening here on California’s north coast. Another gorgeous day, with a morning dog-run to Little River Beach both way-enjoyable and warm, too. Apparently, similar forecast for the next few days… Illustration to the left, Pablo Picasso’s ‘The Weeping Woman [La Femme qui pleure]’ (found here), kind of, sort of…
Illustration to the left, Pablo Picasso’s ‘Agonizing Horse’ (found here), is another in that category of artwork epitomizing our era, fashioned on suffering: ‘Some have interpreted the horse as Franco’s Nationalism, with Picasso predicting its downfall…Picasso has heightened the effect of agony by turning the animal’s tongue into a sort of dagger protruding from its…
Breezy, clear this early-evening Friday on California’s north coast — once again, low clouds/fog hugged the shoreline until about mid day, and conditions were gray at Little River Beach in the morning. Nice, and warm if you get out of the wind, in the afternoon… Hard to gauge in this era of lies and lying.…
Bright and warm this late-afternoon/early-evening Thursday on California’s north coast. However, earlier on the beach was fog and low clouds, a chilled breeze off the ocean. Reportedly, sunshine at least the next week-to-10-days, though, living around the shoreline always the prospect of at least morning fog… Far to the east, attitudes are apparently shifting with…
Sunshine and warm this Sunday on California’s north coast. Earlier this year another rich/famous guy was accused by women for being a weirdo-asshole, Ryan Adams, ex-wife even, Mandy Moore, said as much — think I’d never heard/thought of him before then. My first quick-reaction to hearing this news was oh shit, no, not that guy…
Maybe another hopeful sign of the rolling times — the White House press corp might finally be getting the hang. In yesterday’s first press briefing in 42 days, Huckleberry Sanders discovered reporters were on the push-back and bullshitting wasn’t going to cut it. Although I didn’t see the event live, a few clips of reporters…
Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Seated Pierrot,’ found here). A small, tiny post this afternoon at one of my favorite sites, ‘Lawyers,Guns&Money,’ made me sad: In the recesses of the internet, there are still people plugging away on blogs. We are one of them! But as one of the few independent blogs with actual readership still in…
(Illustration: MC Escher’s engraving, ‘Old Oliver Tree,’ found here. Cold and dark this Thursday evening on California’s north coast — there was passing faded-yellow sunshine during late morning, early afternoon today, then later on, occasional bursts of bright between dark-gray clouds onward to right now. Rain expected tomorrow. And tomorrow being Friday, maybe another crazy…
(Illustration: ‘Cannabis,’ by Michael Creese, found here). Faded-bright sky with chilly air this late-afternoon Tuesday on California’s north coast, a beautiful sunshine day, though, and Samoa Beach was again gorgeously tranquil. The NWS forecasts ‘Mostly Sunny‘ for tomorrow, but rain-showers expected for Thursday, and continuing onward for maybe a week. Right as I type this, the…
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Agonizing Horse,’ found here). A gray-white overcast and chilled sky this late Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast, the dark approaches. Fairly-deep fog this morning when I walked the dogs (or the dogs walked me) out on the Ma-le’l Dunes, the southern unit, and it was more-than-nice; the dogs loved it —…
