War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Another appealing early-evening here on California’s north coast, and a Friday to boot — sunshine just about all day with just some foggy/low clouds in the morning, but way-comfortable. Tomorrow will be the 50th anniversary of the first US landing on the moon, and a first for humanity, too. Even as an old guy, it…
Darkly overcast to the east this Wednesday evening on California’s north coast, but sunshine still from over the ocean — near the end of another record-breaking day, as temperatures soared all over the area, triple digits inland, in the 80s along the shoreline. Little River Beach with the dogs was near-about-almost too hot… Off-weather question…
Illustration to the left, M.C Escher’s ‘Hand with Reflecting Sphere,’ or also, ‘Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror‘ (found here), is an echo of some weird-ass shit in this framed in small-detail of the artwork, like the ceiling lamp in such an odd position: In the centre of the picture is Escher, looking straight at the viewer.…
First post at Compatible Creatures in 17 days, how time seems to fly. Frantic life we lead — an actual whimsy from Dictionary.com: Time passes quickly, as in It’s midnight already? Time flies when you’re having fun, or I guess it’s ten years since I last saw you — how time flies. This idiom was…
A tragic, sad story to fold into a shit-load of others — five people died yesterday down in Orange County when a plane blew apart in the air, falling pieces struck a house. Killed were the pilot (flying solo) and four people in the house. Around the block: This morning, authorities identified the pilot as Antonio…
Sunny with a chilled wind this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — the summer’s beat continues. This morning, a short visit from an old, longtime friend, one I hadn’t seen, or maybe not even talked to in more than two decades, and the experience was way-pleasant. Odd the years, how fast they pass, and…
Bright sunshine with some huge, fluffy clouds this near-noon Monday on California’s north coast, and all tempered by a chilly ocean breeze. A last cold gasp before we start to warm-up for awhile –rain tonight and tomorrow, then ending as the NWS reports the leading edge of a High system with enter the area early Wednesday…
Dark-thirty already this early Friday evening on California’s north coast, looming overcast the preview of some supposedly wet rainstorms this weekend — yes, ‘storms,’ as in plural, more-than-one, the first tomorrow night, the others coming Sunday.. And the cycles mostly of the ‘atmospheric river’ variety, i.e., continuous heavy rain and gusty winds. These southern systems…
Today 15 years ago was a Monday. Unemployed at the time and living in San Luis Obispo, down on California’s Central Coast — left the local newspaper in a downsizing/single-option dispute-episode three months earlier — and was still without a job (I re-joined that same newspaper three months later) and so usually drove my oldest…
Bright sunshine with just a slight touch of an ocean breeze this near-noon Tuesday on California’s north coast — no decent chance of rain until maybe tomorrow night or Thursday. Warm all over the region today, but supposedly to be ‘short-lived‘ as in today only. In this era of pure-crazy driven by unscripted psychological trauma,…
