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Maybe the weed is stronger here, but I was getting down on myself a lot today, wondering if I appeared as criminally suspect as my ex-con stepbrother Tim did in his recent Greece vacation pictures.…
GRANGE REPORT Editor, I was off a couple weekends back attending the Grangers State Convention at the Palermo Grange just outside of Oroville. Four days of Grangers catching up, talking resolutions, sharing music, jokes and…
Halloween didn’t officially begin for me at Saturday night’s rap concert at Mendocino’s Crown Hall. It more or less kicked off at the Laundromat in Fort Bragg that afternoon when a doughy, busty white thing…
Many events of the earlier days of Anderson Valley and its stories are fast becoming only memories and faint ones at that. One story that was recently revived was that of the Mason and Dixon…
Remember Tillikum? Back in 2010 I likened this proud mammal, at 6 tons and 22 feet long, the largest orca whale in captivity, to Spartacus. Tillikum was kidnapped by whale-slavers off Iceland at the age…
I don’t “do” many poetry readings — as some wag once quipped, riffing off Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem Howl, “I saw the best minds of my time bored at poetry readings…” But this one, held…