BLACK ELVIS LIVES! The nifty carving disappeared two weeks ago from its long-time pedestal across the road from Jack's Valley Store. Black Elvis had been assumed stolen. But Black Elvis remains in The Valley. Not…
Posts published in February 2010
Mendo Central, Ukiah, is broke and getting broker faster than previously thought. Revenues are drying up, costs increasing, an untenable situation getting less tenable by the month.
An excerpt from this week’s Off the Record, in which Bruce Anderson has an amusing encounter with a coupla’ LaRouchies in San Francisco…
This Week: The cost of blather, the return of Craig McMillan, Mendo's insta-chlor press releases and much more...
Volume is the first thing you notice about Joe Munson: He doesn't seem to have much control over it. The hearing aids stuffed in his ears are next. They're the result of being an alcoholic. More specifically, they're the result of going on a bender in Pontiac, Illinois, of talking shit to a very large man, of receiving an asskicking so severe his jaw broke in three places and his hearing vanished.
BLEEPS DEFENDING BLEEPS Dear Editor, The word niggardly, whether it’s an a or an e, or ending with dly, who gives a bleep? We knew what that guy was thinking when he used it to…
To whom it may concern, My name is Glenn Sunkett. I am an African American citizen and Oakland California resident who is being illegally detained, prejudiced, racially discriminated against, inhumanly traded, and a constant subject…
Desperation is rippling through the north hill country of Mendocino County as land and pot partners turn on each other and ruthless bands of home invaders cruise the mud dirt roads from Branscom to Spy Rock to Alderpoint and points between.
Trees are losing their grip and falling wholesale throughout the North Coast as the ground is saturated for the first time in four years, and storm winds are blowing. On the gravel portion of Lambert…