Saturday Tales — Spies And Bongs

Another scorcher outside this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — it’s 103 degrees right now, with barely a breeze. Despite a couple of ‘coolish‘ days immediately ahead, more blasting heat is on our schedule well-past Labor Day. It’s been a seemingly-quick, hot-ass summer, though, the entire clock/calendar, keeping-time apparatus feels like it’s on…

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Joe Biden: ‘The Survival Of Our Planet Is On The Ballot’

Once again hot as dog shit this Thursday late afternoon here in California’s Central Valley — if the heat of dog shit can be measured — (it’s 104 degrees outside right now). Summer blisters the anvil (WTF!). In the midst of the scorcher, our state today made a nice gesture for our future weather (Vox):…

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Nihilists Not Good For Climate Change — ‘These Men Are Cowards’

Heavy-aired hot this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — 100 degrees outside right now, probably the high for the day, and another episode in our latest heat wave this year. Cooler weather forecast for this coming weekend, so we’ll just wait as we whine about insufferable conditions. Weather be changing in a hurry.…

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Ron Johnson: Lying Asshole Republican — A Seditionist Only ‘A Couple Seconds’

A major aspect of Republicans is they’re slimy, lying assholes. Even worse for such as Ron Johnson: Upclose details via Raw Story this morning: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has refused to speak to the Jan. 6 Committee because his participation in a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election only lasted “a couple seconds.” During…

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Tweet Of The Moment — Time Melt In A Republican ‘Upside Down’ World

Another hot one building outside this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re still under triple digits right now, but the heat-blasting doesn’t always intensify until late afternoon. We’ll weather the weather, as we have so far, and eventually, hopefully, we’ll persevere. Anyway, spied this earlier — Ron DeSantis epitomizes the entire Republican…

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T-Rump Declassifying Documents At Whim — ‘Nothing Approaching An Order That Foolish Was Ever Given’

In moves with sound effects similar to a noose tightening around the T-Rump came today as one of his way-longtime financial stooges pled guilty in New York to fraud, while several former White House officials said the T-Rump is full of shit declassifying intel documents willy-willy — “total nonsense” said one. Hopefully, time and space…

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Please, Please Buy My Novel

Here we are, shamelessly and audaciously without an ounce of any marketing savvy, crying for you as readers of this blog — that handful of sad intellectuals off the vast InterWebs — to buy my novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona,” self-published last March by Outskirts Press. Although set in the genre FICTION/Romance/Fantasy, “Corona”…

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Heat-Shattering Time

Late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — outside my air-conditioned dwelling it’s 109 degrees with barely any wind. My local weather page reports tomorrow will be ‘nearly the same‘ as today, or just another episode in a multi-day ‘Excessive Heat Warning’ for the region. And accordingly, right now we’re two degrees above the forecasted…

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