Obama’s dipped below 50% in public approval, which — so the pollsters tell us — is nothing particularly unusual for a new president at this stage of the game. This week, he’s scheduled to announce…
Posts published in “Day: December 2, 2009”
GUIDO PRONSOLINO died Monday at his home in Yorkville. He was 83. A full obituary will appear next week, but a potluck celebration of Guido's life will be held this Friday (December 4th), 1pm at…
Apologies to Mr. Jayson Kain of Albion and Minnesota, a bi-coastal pot person whose travails were described here last week. But something got lost in translation; Mr. Kain's “appetite” for marijuana had nothing to do…
Katheryn and I never did connect with Soren, or Alan Graham. I did deliver the IWW tee-shirt he’d sent me years ago he'd asked me to bring so that he could reproduce it. But I…
In Michael Ondaatje's wonderful novel “Divisadero” — a most memorable part of which is set in Sonoma County — the jazz of Thelonious Monk is likened to “imprisoned birdsongs.” Leave it to a superb novelist…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s go straight to the topics of conversation under discussion at The Three-Dot Lounge, my favorite gathering place in the Valley at…
Gloria and I sat down to talk at The Senior Center a couple of weeks ago and, like many of her generation, she was very surprised that anyone would be interested in her story. She…
Fact: Every 100 years on the tenth year of the century, Mexico explodes in extravagant social upheaval. In 1810, this distant neighbor nation declared its independence from the Spanish Crown, signaling monumental bloodletting — hundreds…