Category Archives: Media

Saturday Musical Introspective: Songs From Long-Ago Memory

September 4, 2021

In a non-contextual free-form this Saturday morning, and amongst savage news stories, I’m slipping back some 47 years, back to 1974 — I graduated from the University of Florida that June and spent the summer…

Wild Fires To Wild Flooding — Climate Change In Real Time

September 2, 2021

Slightly warm at a cool 88-degrees this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, and we’re still clear of smoke from our rampant wildfire war being waged up and down the state. Although there are…

Dark Side Of Texas On Women’s Rights

September 1, 2021

Doomscrolling truly in surfing the news this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — shit, I could be anywhere and would still come across story after fucking story of shit happening, most sorry to…

It’s Official — US Out Of Afghanistan, And Other Stories

August 30, 2021

Another boilermaker day — 109-degrees outside right now (late-afternoon Monday in California’s Central Valley) — as we spin through work-week kick-off with shit hitting the fan everywhere. Probably the most-historic event today was an end…

Hurricane Ida So Strong It Briefly Changed The Direction Of The Mississippi River — A Preview Of Storms To Come

August 29, 2021

Another heavy-air scorcher this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, though, skies today were a little less rusty-brown with the onset of some decent winds which kept the sunshine fairly-bright and a sharper yellow.…

Hurricane Ida Heading For New Orleans — Bad-ass Hurricanes ‘I’ Named

August 28, 2021

Hot, heavy air this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley as the temperatures spiral upward — it’s 104-degrees with the view still a rusty-brown submerged in way-faded-yellow sunshine. Any length of time outside is…

Biden Blowback On Terror — ‘We Will Not Forgive. We Will Not Forget. We Will Hunt You Down And Make You Pay’

August 26, 2021

Joe Biden is handling a shocker this afternoon, usually in his normal, low-key stand-out approach on the bombings in Afghanistan (death toll has risen, now 13 in total of American military fatalities, with 14 wounded),…

Afghan Agony: Suicide Bombers Kill 12 US Military Servicemen — Worse Shit To Hit The Future Fan

August 26, 2021

Terrible bomb explosions outside Kabul airport this morning, a nasty incident to most-likely change the timbre of this whole Afghan ugly: Quick nutshell via CNN: Twelve members of the US military were killed and 15…