One of the best of the detail people online,or maybe anywhere, is Marcy Wheeler, also known as emptywheel — I’ve read her shit for years, and she’s got focused eyes to gaze hard back at the…
Overcast and drizzly this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, and apparently the air this morning is a good sound modifier as I can hear the roar of the Pacific Ocean from about a mile…
Monday again! And there’s not a dang thang I can do about it, either. Sad news over the weekend, singer Linda Ronstadt has Parkinson’s disease. She told AARP online: “No one can sing with Parkinson’s…
(Illustration: Wolfgang Bloch‘s The Colors of Coincidence found here). An oddity this Saturday morning on California’s north coast: Clear skies and bright, early sunshine. The norm for dawn is deep fog, like yesterday when the…
Another Sunday morning and the news-crawl continues — foggy, chilly and gloomy here on California’s north coast. Watching ‘Good Morning America,’ not paying much attention to the detail-drone, just hearing somewhat-structured noise — a low-level clamor to…
As I get older, the writing process appears to be short-winded, and based on mood — creative juices just don’t percolate onto the page, or as in this modern era, onto the laptop screen as…
Mostly clear this early Friday with a bit of the moon splashing a bit of shine on this part of California’s north coast — an illuminated path to the weekend. Time seems to be traveling…
Here we are smack-dab in the middle of the week already — routine overcast and chilly on California’s north coast this morning as we descend toward the weekend. Doing a work week is really, really…
Another Monday morning here on California’s north coast — as it is all over — and we begin a work week again. At least, the weather lately has been about near-perfect for this area of…
Although seemingly obvious from the beginning, George Zimmerman’s trial turned into a kind of legal theatrical farce, and the outcome predictable, though still fairly shitty, and fairly harsh. The US appears in the throes of…