It’s a warm and gray morning. A blanket of clouds covers the Azores, casting a blue-gray shadow across the Atlantic. Some clouds creep slowly across the flanks of the towering volcano on the nearby island…
Posts published in “Essays”
In a letter from San Quentin, Aaron Vargas talks prison & politics.
We waited 13 minutes for the 33 line at Castro and Market Monday afternoon. On the opposite corner, a naked man with a large penis stood—or sometimes paced—while a handful of impressed on-lookers, smiling and…
Hi all. I’m taking a different tack this month and following up on something requested: In last week’s edition of the Anderson Valley Advertiser a local woman wrote a letter to the editor complaining about…
Arthur C. Clarke and director Peter Hyams proved less than prophetic in the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact, but they gave the audiences of 1984 what they wanted to hear. Cosmonaut David Bowman…
In her guest opinion in the Eureka Times-Standard on June 29, Former Democratic Assemblywoman Virginia Strom-Martin claimed that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fast-track Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative is “the most open and transparent process”…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. Due to unforeseen circumstances I was unable to attend The Olde Time 4th of July Celebration but Hummingbird was there, in Stars and…