Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
Dark-thirty still this Sunday morning on California’s north coast — fog dwells deep around streetlights, and life is way-freaking quiet. Time really flows away writing a post for my blog here — right now it’s a little after six o’clock, probably near an hour away from first light, and most-likely will be eight, or nine…
Overcast still, but no rain showers, though, dark as shit in the early afternoon. Modern life sometimes appears asshole-contradictory — Cheetah this: A study found that the violence displayed by chimpanzees was not caused by human disturbances, but rather the behavior is innate to the species. We don’t corrupt everything on this planet, just mostly…
Sunshine this early Tuesday is filtered by what weather folks call ‘haze,’ but it’s just low clouds blocking a bright morning here on California’s north coast. Just a little bit ago skies were clear. We be robbed of a rare, thunderous sunrise — shoreline shifts sometimes suck. And more fire in the air — in…
A wall of gray this early Monday on California’s north coast — thick fog again, and really wet. My back patio appears as if there’d been a soft, but really-nice-enough rain last night. Just thick-ass fog. No rain, however, coming soon for any of these parts. Way-down south, in the heated-bowels of Los Angeles, everybody…
Deep, thick-damp fog this early Sunday on California’s north coast — all-gray without not much sound, either. Looking back on this past week, lost in the news shuffle, which included ‘official‘ declaration of another endless war, and sunshine full of rare, double-dosed magnetically-charged solar particles, was wail of a nasty climate-change alarm bell — clanking…
Warm and comfortable this afternoon on California’s north coast, but way-warm just about everywhere else out here. The LA area is excepting a heat wave this weekend, temperatures in triple digits — this on the heels of exceedingly warm. From the LA Times: The first eight months of 2014 were the warmest on average in…
Overcast and chilly this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — weather we like it or not. And not liking it — a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) indicates the environment sucks worse than it has in 30 years. The clock hands are moving, though — WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud: “Past, present…
Thick fog again this Sunday morning on California’s north coast, and although the song remains the same, the tune could change. One interesting note from the 6.0 earthquake two weeks ago (today) down in Napa — an aid in vetting ground water as dry streams get water for the first time — via the San…
Drippy, damp fog this early Saturday on California’s north coast. Part/parcel of the weather heritage up here, and maybe for summer seashores all over — fog in the morning, a breeze with sunshine in the afternoon — except yesterday, when the fog near-about remained. And tomorrow afternoon, fog or no fog, another big piece of…
Fog-city this early Friday on California’s north coast, and quiet — no sound from westward and the Pacific Ocean, either. Clear, crisp and sunny fall-like morning’s we’d had the past three/four days are gone, back to a our summer-extension’s normal of a sad-sack’s deep gray. And a drought-related bit: Appears less and less likely there’s…
