War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Earlier today, while smoking a cigarette out on my small back patio, I encountered an animal surprise. Well, not an animal — a garden snake. Later, after the appropriate Googling, I found a lookalike, way-similar to the one pictured at left, though, with a much-wider golden streak down the body. Supposedly, a Coast garter snake (T.…
Here it is, another Monday. The weekend goes so freakin’ fast, even if I do nothing of any real significance. This morning is typical — foggy, overcast and a bit gloomy. And another procrastinating weekend of domestic chores — this time around, I put off working by watching ‘30 Rock‘ on Netflix. Just getting toward…
Crystal-clear this Friday morning on California’s north coast, and if my apartment neighbor behind me hadn’t left his back patio light on, I most-likely could have seen a billion stars. Even with a half-moon shining bright in the southern sky, maybe I’d have spotted two billion. We’re in the throes of some wonderful weather. Yesterday…
No matter how you look at it, the weekend’s over and we’re at Monday again — and typically it’s overcast and warm up here on California’s north coast with another work week staring straight into my face. And we’re moving beyond the half-way point for 2013 with asshole Santa Claus a distant, terrible memory. Time…
Cloudy, drizzle and fog — another Sunday here on California’s north coast, though, the normal pedigree for this neck of the woods. Started out about the same yesterday, but near-noon sunshine came and everybody went home happy. Reportedly, we’re in for temperatures in the 70s tomorrow, and maybe after see-sawing during the week, temps climbing…
Up here on California’s north coast this Saturday morning, outside looks deep-overcast, gloomy and gothic — a book by its cover? What you see might not be what it is, yet, at the same time, be exactly what it looks like, only worse. Weather has become more than just background noise. Under the weather, we…
Bright and sunny this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast — big weekend in Arcata, a little town just south of us and home to Humboldt State University, with what’s called the Kinetic Grand Championship, a crazy two-day event of homemade/man-propelled motion machines. See some of the participants at Lost Coast Outpost. As a steadfast…
Foggy and a bit on the chilly side this early Thursday on California’s north coast, no stars, no wind, no sound. So quiet, it must be quiet all over the world. Wrong! Much of the news recently has been shittier than dog poo — and a number of these items are headline only stories, with…
Here we are getting close to the end of another work week — overcast and warm this Thursday morning on California’s north coast — and life apparently has seen better days. A sense of rage against the machinery. The feeling a terrible end is just around the corner, but no one seems to give a…
Hello from the past. I’ve been involuntarily offline since Thursday — this laptop is a most-baffling mystery to me. Regular readers might recall my near-new laptop (and another functioning old one) were stolen in January, and I went out and found this used two-year-old Dell, which began to have problems, too. The Start Up program…
