Hostile Hospital;
MCDH Meeting;
FB Highrise;
Quiz Night;
Pig Minder;
Pylon Destroyer;
Little Dog;
Albion Bridges;
Fire Damage;
Algae Warning;
Yesterday's Catch;
Circle Dance;
Food Truck;
Mendocino Theatre;
TransTroop;
The Fifties;
Kaepernick in Africa;
Contemptible Lies;
International Small Talk
Posts published in July 2017
A stern visage, the very picture of 19th century rectitude, looked down on passersby from a banner at the corner of McAllister and Larkin, fin de siècle San Francisco. The banner celebrated the adjacent law…
In 1968 I was a 17-year-old philosophy major living in the dorms at U.C. Riverside. Along with all the usual adjustments to living away from home, like eating dorm food, one incident is nearly as…
I ditched my last substance addiction on May 28th, 1988. I was at a party talking to the wife of a friend. As we conversed, I put a Marlboro into my mouth and said, —You…
Word on the street is, things are pretty rough out there, "out there" being the world in general and the United States specifically. I hear, and read, about it every day, in forum after forum,…
We are looking more and more like France on the eve of its revolution in 1789. Our classes are distributed differently, but the inequity is just as sharp. America’s “aristocracy,” once based strictly on bank…
It there’s one comfort to be had in the mad scrum of high summer tourism it is that the crowds can still be escaped, even with just a few deft steps or well-chosen road miles.…