War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here). Dark and gloomy this Thursday evening here on California’s north coast, in the middle of a two-day storm, rain and lightening this morning, sunshine this afternoon — the second half of this weather encounter supposedly tomorrow with more rain and thunderstorms. Next week’s forecast is sun,…
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: M.C Escher’s ‘Three Spheres II,’ found here). Faded-yellow sunshine — a surprise — this late-afternoon Tuesday on California’s north coast, as we were expecting some rain, though, there was a drizzle much earlier, the skies have been fairly dry. Big storm, however, expected starting tomorrow — check out the NWS dramatic forecast: ‘Gale force…
(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 above: M.C Escher’s ‘Scholastica,’ found here). As the work-week comes to a close this Friday evening, the natural momentum of our terrifying times-of-history doesn’t have weekends off, so the ruthless grind of weird shit will keep on trucking — an iconic phrase there, ‘keep on trucking,’ first poised in the jazz-music scene of the…
(Illustration: Donald Trump, ‘Basic Shapes,‘ by caricaturist/illustrator Chong Jit Leong, found here). Another book about the shit-ways of the T-Rump, this time from political author Larry Leamer, and ‘Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace‘ — understand his ‘temper tantrums’ are part of his mean-ass/cold-cruel baby syndrome. Via People this afternoon: “He…
(Illustration: MC Escher’s engraving, ‘Old Oliver Tree,’ found here. Dark-clouds-overcast this early-evening Wednesday on California’s north coast, maybe some sunshine expected tomorrow, but mostly for the next few days is more of our current and upcoming ‘wet season‘ — we’ll see. Out of season, and all reason is what’s top the news billboard tonight: a…
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Seated Pierrot,’ found here). As predicted by the NSA: Early-afternoon Tuesday here on California’s north coast can be summed-up in two words — rain and wind, though so far, seemingly more wind than rain. Maybe dry on Thursday, but we’ll just wait and see…what else’s to do? Farther adrift, life may not be…
(Illustration: ‘Pinocchio,’ by Enrico Mazzanti (1852-1910), found here). Overcast-gray skies this late-afternoon Monday here on California’s north coast — deep-cloudy just about all day, but the NWS forecasts ‘Widespread Rain‘ (1-3-inches at least) with ‘Strong Winds‘ (35-to-50-mph, gusts to 60 in some spots) starting tonight and flowing into Wednesday — winter be here. Meanwhile, today in…
(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Exploding Raphaelesque Head,’ found here). As the crookedly-corrupt cookie crumbles, petulant incompetent crime boss, the T-Rump, slapped snotty: — according to the UK’s Independent this morning: Donald Trump has reportedly cancelled the annual White House Christmas party for members of the media. The festive gathering has been hosted by presidents for decades,…
