Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
Major-crater story this Thursday noon, and probably for a few days hence — Queen Elizabeth II has died, aged 96. Typical of the stories to be posted — per the Guardian‘s Iive blog: Standing outside the gates of Balmoral as the sombre news of the Queen’s death was announced were two accident and emergency nurses…
A quick move past ugly and focus on rain — Annie Lennox and rain. Instead of news-related shit to bring you way down this Sunday late afternoon, a quick focus on Annie and what an incredible set of pipes she has, especially with my most-favorite song of the last three/four years — an unplugged version…
Instead of a news item generating interest for a post, I found music instead — Friday is a sought-after day. Sick to the bowels of T-Rump and the entire most-ugly and weird-ass Republican political apparatus, I turned to song of verse longing for a day at the end of the work week. No better way…
Olivia Newton-John has died, it was announced today. She was 73, same age as me. In the 1970s I had a continuous crush on Stevie Nicks, Diane Keaton, and Olivia Newton-John. A most-peculiar period for me in late-summer/fall 1974 was enhanced and made a near-fantasy by Newton-John’s “I Honestly Love You” cooing on the radio…
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‘ music, tunes awash/heard in a near-zero precipitation zone. Here in California’s Central Valley — and probably the whole state, including…
Across the wide pond this Thursday morning a musical interlude in the sound of a dipshit leaving. Boris Johnson resigned as UK prime minister, but in a slow-stepped process that will supposedly not take place for months — Johnson will stay on until a successor is named — and he’s an idiot with an idiot’s…
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 enough to be comfortable. Next week, though, a rolling-thunder heatwave is expected, maybe triple-digit temperatures by Tuesday/Wednesday. In rebellion against…
Upper reaches of the word ‘warm‘ this late-afternoon/early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — short of 6 PM right now and even with a slight breeze it’s reportedly 98-degrees outside. Shit-on-a-barbeque-stick. I was out back earlier taking a B&M (Wine-Wood Tip) break and the air was pushing a hot-summer breeze. After some doomscrolling the…
(Illustration: ‘Man writing Painting,’ by Rebecca Beris, and found here). Sunny and breezy this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — May Day, May Day! This year is whiplash-throttling down the tracks, huh? I haven’t posted for more than a week, been tied up with some other personal life-sized items, all good, but strange.…
Early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — today another sun-splashed one with nice temperatures cooled by gentle breezes. In the sense of external living conditions, this is probably as good as it gets. All downhill from here. In that contextual bottom line, I got tired of the horror out of Ukraine as the war…
