This Week: the sherrif's fancy new computer system; pot cops & pot prices; sniveling for Affinito; and much more
Posts published in December 2011
From the deck of an 18-footer fully loaded for a sport crab run, the sea looked pretty nice before noon. Crossing the Noyo bridge, we…
It's a beautiful December. The little man is gadgeting. The teenager is neck deep in Rube Goldberg machines. My boyfriend is recovering from some strange…
Slapstick depends on repetition. The clown always slips in the pile of elephant crap, inevitably walks into the ladder. By such standards Mitt Romney is…
SMARTMETER OFF Editor, Recently PG&E initiated two versions of Robo calls to PG&E users, who either do not have a SmartMeter yet or on the…
There is no such thing as old music. Regardless of when a piece was composed, it comes to life only at the moment when someone…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. While many of you will have seen me there, others would perhaps…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s long time chief, J Edgar Hoover, was in a sense “family” for me. He was a presence, heavy and omniscient,…
In my youth, many if not most budding musicians had to fight their way through a lot of opposition, such as parents or other authority…