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…
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 above: ‘Cannabis,’ by Michael Creese, found here). Sunshine slowly being replaced by rolling, big-fluffy clouds this Monday afternoon on California’s north coast — supposedly, returning to wet-times tomorrow, with first some light showers, then increasing to the heavy-rain category by Wednesday, consuming rest of the week. Farewell to a weekend of absolutely-gorgeous weather, motif…
(Illustration: Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity)‘ found here). Worse than vile, or just an asshole motherfucker — the T-Rump tweeted this morning: Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen. Unless they get their act…
(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……
One of the more normal days in the West Wing — soon the T-Rump is going have a real-fractured meltdown, just wait and see: We might have known, somewhat-maybe understood the depth of the T-Rump’s arrogance while wallowing in his own ignorance, but then along comes the scene-of-a-situation today between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,…
A child will lead us, though, maybe too late — the UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland, is happening now, and today 15-year-old Greta Thunberg laid-down the real: “For 25 years countless people have come to the UN climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions…
Foggy and growing darkly-gray this early-evening Monday on California’s north coast, cool as opposed to great heat found a couple of miles inland. Local, local, local — an old news story of interest, tapping into a report today on T-Rump-state TV (NBC News): ‘“More great economic news on Friday,” former pro-Trump cable news commentator Kayleigh…
First post in well-more than a week, the longest period in the 10-year history of Compatible Creatures — a literary gap of the times. A lifelong exertion of a writer absent. A variety of reasons — most-notable, a continuous, hugely-horrific news cycle, a way-downer, and beyond depressing, starving any mucked-up desire to write shit about…
Faded-yellow sunshine finally scuttling the overcast here this late-afternoon Tuesday on California’s north coast — pale light it is, as supposedly rain starting tomorrow night and mostly-wet through the weekend. Dreary this morning, and seemingly the last few days, weeks, and for at least a month. Life and the news has become so tedious, the…
