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Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

You Know This Guy?

Sooo, didja hear I’ll probably be taking off early? Friday, maybe around 10? Or might be even earlier because we’ve got a long drive down to Drixel. It’s not too far from Bakersfield if you…

They Can’t Even Govern Ukiah

Denny’s restaurant, longtime cornerstone of Highway 101 and Ukiah’s busiest road into town, closed a couple years ago. Nothing was done to prevent it being destroyed by various vagrants, criminals and druggies who infest the…

Folks Mingle Easy In These Parts

We were standing in the lobby waiting in the popcorn line, and we noticed a smartly dressed black teenager in front of us. She wore familiar teen couture: distressed jeans so tight she’ll need a…

At The Cemetery Of Lost Saloons

News that Dick’s Bar in the very quaint Village of Mendocino has closed down surprised me only because I had assumed it had disappeared a decade or more ago, transformed into an art gallery, a…

The Game Is Rigged

It’s not easy being you and me, especially when we look around and see what a breeze of a bowl of cherries life is for rich cats and poor dudes. And their wives and old…

Pass On The Mac-N-Cheese

In California ‘foodies’ are snooty sorts who browse their tiny plates of wild-sourced, shade grown servings of French herbs with Peruvian potatoes on the side and a delicate sauce applied with an eyedropper. They sip…

A Giant Strides Among Us

The time will come, though you and I will not be present to witness it, when most everything about our era is forgotten, just as we’ve forgotten most everything about the semi-distant past. Unbelievable as…

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