Another musical notable passing today: Charlie Watts, the quiet, seemingly shy drummer for The Rolling Stones, died from undisclosed ailments in a London hospital. He was 80. One job for nearly 60 years. Watts drummed…
Warm and near-comfortable this Monday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley as climate’s weather plays games. The dry-red air present the last few days from the state’s wildfires has lessened a good bit and the…
A crutch retort from the unvaccinated crazies got snatched away this Monday morning: ‘The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The widely anticipated decision replaces the emergency use authorization granted by…
Life continues, and war will keep rolling along, too, even if brakes are applied: Biden’s been pretty-straight about the Afghan shit so far, and this morning he apparently kept it going — via NPR: In…
In place of the horrors of the nowadays, a flashback Sunday afternoon to sounds of long ago, and way-way far away — music as memory of decades past and the history since then. Alternative rock…
Contradiction and lack of any kind of self-awareness is a mainstay of being an idiot Republican nowadays, even if death is on the line: If DeathSantis is not aware, maybe he should be instructed —…
Latest installments of the Afghan-disaster chronicles this Friday afternoon, and how fast the week when shit happens. A cascade of events, going from reality to denial. One note of the extreme measures of getting to…
Another brown-tinted environment this mid-day Friday here in California’s Central Valley, painted with way-faded yellow sunshine, mingled in with a thin-overcast layer of a hazel-colored sky. Air-breathing outside literally sucks: Our region still looks like…
Some more environmental shit this afternoon as climate change continues unabated — similar to COVID at a Texas Republican fundraiser — and the endgame worse. (Illustration found here). Odd events weather/climate-wise seem to be taking…
A brownish, dystopian environmental ambiance this Thursday morning in California’s Central Valley as apparently the wildfires rampaging statewide is worsening human/animal sight and breathing conditions. I took my daughter’s basset hound/greyhound mix, Leroy, for our…