‘Meet The Villagers’
September 22, 2013A dark, dreary and dismal-looking overcast sky this early Sunday morning here on California’s north coast — more rain coming, it looks like. If those two guys in that photo on the left look like…
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Crazy like a Crazy
September 19, 2013Overcast and damp this Thursday morning on California’s north coast as we cruise on toward the weekend — now closer than it was yesterday! And yesterday’s gone — a loss of history, boxer Ken Norton,…
Angst Anniversary
September 12, 2013High overcast this early Thursday morning on California’s north coast and from all indications we’ll continue our most-wonderful Indian summer today with warm temperatures fluttered in sunshine. Twelve years in a memory’s snap — a swift…
‘Pin’ the ‘Prick’
September 11, 2013High overcast this way-too-early Wednesday here on California’s north coast and mid-week pulls us closer and closer to the weekend. Which is exactly where we want to be — for now. And in the wake…
Another Brick in the Drought-dried Wall
September 5, 2013Another reinforcing prompt on the quickly-coming-if-not-already-here future — from the Washington Post this afternoon: Manmade climate change played a substantial role in the exceptional warmth in the eastern U.S. during the spring of 2012, a major…
Axe Assad
September 4, 2013Clear skies and twinkling stars greeted me earlier this Wednesday morning, but it now appears fog is rolling across the north coast of California, but most-likely by mid-day it will be sweltering with hot-boxed temperatures…
Laborious Exigency
September 2, 2013The old Website is having some kind of problem again today — the front page has kind of folded back onto itself and a few of the ingredients here have vanished. A post I did…
‘Drum’ goes silent
August 31, 2013Life in the ether ends today for one of the most-interesting and vital sites around, The Oil Drum will become history. Sad state of affairs — I’ll greatly miss the Drum‘s Drumbeat, and more-than-just a wisp…
Gas-Mask Fantasy
August 28, 2013Clear and star-sprinkling skies this early Wednesday along California’s north coast — as the middle of the work week is here, so are thoughts of the week end. Yet two days to go. And this…
Aging is for Old People
August 26, 2013Monday again! And there’s not a dang thang I can do about it, either. Sad news over the weekend, singer Linda Ronstadt has Parkinson’s disease. She told AARP online: “No one can sing with Parkinson’s…