War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: ‘Art Critic‘ by Norman Rockwell, found here). Wet, chilly and dark this Friday evening on California’s north coast, and a bad case of sad. Bad let-down, to say the least. I kind of knew/felt it was too good to be true — tonight at the New York Times, and yes, piss-and-moan: The rare public…
(Illustration: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here). Dark and gloomy this Thursday evening here on California’s north coast, in the middle of a two-day storm, rain and lightening this morning, sunshine this afternoon — the second half of this weather encounter supposedly tomorrow with more rain and thunderstorms. Next week’s forecast is sun,…
(Illustration found here). As far as our environment goes, it’s getting way-close to the now-or-we’re-fucked point — the Guardian yesterday: The study found that if all fossil fuel infrastructure — power plants, factories, vehicles, ships and planes — from now on are replaced by zero-carbon alternatives at the end of their useful lives, there is a…
Dreary, outside a bit of waiting-for-the storm weather this mid-day Wednesday on California’s north coast — the sky a deep and seemingly up-close ash-white, dusted with blustering winds, slashed on occasion by rapid-fire drizzle-droplets, heavy with anticipation. Yet the air cuddled within a pleasant warmth — all ominous ingredients for a bigly disturbance a-coming. Reportedly,…
(Illustration: M.C Escher’s ‘Three Spheres II,’ found here). Faded-yellow sunshine — a surprise — this late-afternoon Tuesday on California’s north coast, as we were expecting some rain, though, there was a drizzle much earlier, the skies have been fairly dry. Big storm, however, expected starting tomorrow — check out the NWS dramatic forecast: ‘Gale force…
(Illustration above: M.C Escher’s ‘Scholastica,’ found here). As the work-week comes to a close this Friday evening, the natural momentum of our terrifying times-of-history doesn’t have weekends off, so the ruthless grind of weird shit will keep on trucking — an iconic phrase there, ‘keep on trucking,’ first poised in the jazz-music scene of the…
(Illustration: Donald Trump, ‘Basic Shapes,‘ by caricaturist/illustrator Chong Jit Leong, found here). Another book about the shit-ways of the T-Rump, this time from political author Larry Leamer, and ‘Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace‘ — understand his ‘temper tantrums’ are part of his mean-ass/cold-cruel baby syndrome. Via People this afternoon: “He…
(Illustration: MC Escher’s engraving, ‘Old Oliver Tree,’ found here. Dark-clouds-overcast this early-evening Wednesday on California’s north coast, maybe some sunshine expected tomorrow, but mostly for the next few days is more of our current and upcoming ‘wet season‘ — we’ll see. Out of season, and all reason is what’s top the news billboard tonight: a…
(Illustration: ‘Pinocchio,’ by Enrico Mazzanti (1852-1910), found here). Overcast-gray skies this late-afternoon Monday here on California’s north coast — deep-cloudy just about all day, but the NWS forecasts ‘Widespread Rain‘ (1-3-inches at least) with ‘Strong Winds‘ (35-to-50-mph, gusts to 60 in some spots) starting tonight and flowing into Wednesday — winter be here. Meanwhile, today in…
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Agonizing Horse,’ found here). First post in a couple of weeks — I’ve been down in the Central Valley with a daughter and a follow-up appointment off my surgery last summer at UC Davis. Doc said I’m doing good, but he wants to see me again in three months. Here we go……
