LOG TALK Hi Cal Winslow (Host of “Talking About California,” KZYX radio, Thursday mornings at 9am), I am still enjoying your radio show. In particular,…
Posts published in January 2013
A FEDERAL appeals court ruled 2-1 Tuesday that marijuana should stay on the dangerous drug roster. A medical marijuana group, Americans for Safe Access, had…
This trip back to the Anderson Valley of my youth, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, began with a review of the region’s…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s get straight into the Public Service Announcements (PSAs). Calendars and…
I recently reread my (apparently original) paperback copy of Helen Doss’s book, The Family Nobody Wanted (1954, New York: Scholastic Book Services), the last half…
Each summer during the 70s, there were basketball camps which sprung up in the frozen windy tundra tri-state areas of Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa (the…
Two items from the first week in January that barely registered faint blips on the media radar: First, Huell Howser has died. If he is…
I saw an old-school “punk rocker” on the street the other day — one with the full spiked-out mohawk hairstyle, in addition to the beat-up,…
DA EYSTER probably already knows that lots of people want him to prosecute crimes against animals, which he has not yet done, but he may…
JIM LEVINE has died at age 73. The highly regarded South Coast resident was well-known in Mendocino County (and the Anderson Valley) for his years…
In 1976, when I was twenty-six and working as a landscaper in southern Oregon, my big dream was go to New York and meet my literary agent Dorothy Pittman for the first time, and also say hello to the magazine editors at Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Gallery who had bought my short stories; and to rub shoulders, I hoped, with others of my kind.