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Posts published in “Essays”

I Can’t Get No: An Open Apology To Keith Richards

I am sorry, I said, many many times over the years, that your band has not made a half-decent record since 1972 — you know, “Exile on Main Street,” if you recall that one.

A Flea In The Frog’s Ear

Imagine the fright mask that the Sofitel Hotel maid's face turned into when a black swan in the form of an international banking poobah waddled out of the suite's bathroom with wings rampant. Black swans…

Ball Bear Cat Piano

Jon Miller, my favorite bard of baseball, recently used the words egregious, preposterous, cerulean, prodigious, and greensward whilst painting verbal pictures of our San Francisco Giants sweeping the Rockies and the Snakes

DoodFest, 2011

Friday the 13th in Boonville this year brought a very specific kind of visitor to Anderson Valley. By Saturday, the mob was upon us. If you were fortunate enough to be in the center of…

Five Years For What Crime?

Marian “Mollie” Fry, MD, and her husband Dale Schafer, an attorney, have begun serving five-year terms —ostensibly for the crime of Cannabis cultivation (growing plants), but actually for the crime of political organizing (educating people).

Miley Cyrus & The Bin Laden Death Fest

Here in the Homeland there is jubilation. The YouTube site of teen idol, Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA” hosted the virtual party to celebrate  the unarmed bin Laden’s killing. As of this morning the…

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