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Posts published in January 2010

The Pynchon I Knew

Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles County is part of the so-called South Bay, south of Santa Monica. It was mostly populated by middle-class white people when I grew up there in the 1950s, and was…

Turkey Vulture

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Senior citizens and two-year old children, loggers and shepherds, chefs and caterers, journalists and hack writers, schoolteachers and AVHS alumni, brewers and…

Who’s Getting Released?

Dear AVA, Thank you for sending your book, “Mendocino Noir”! I received the note to retrieve my book here at Soledad prison from the package room on December 14 but I was unable to actually…

Letters to the Editor 1/6/2009

TRUST THE TRUSTEE To the editor: Thanks to the thousands of voters in Mendocino and Lake counties for their incredible support during the election for Mendocino-Lake Community College District Area Five trustee. Not only in…

Mendo’s Bogus Zuckerman Awards

Anderson Valley High School and Fort Bragg High School have won figurative silver medals -- again this year -- in a US News & World Report competition called Best High Schools.  U.S. News functions as…

Off the Record 1/6/2010

THIS POOR GUY, a walking advertisement for single payer health coverage, was booked into the Mendocino County Jail a few days ago for missing probation appointments, probably because he couldn't lift his tumor off his pillow.…

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