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Posts published in August 2020

Bay Area Forecast: Lightning Sunday-Tuesday

The National Weather Service - Bay Area (Saturday afternoon) warns that dry lightning and erratic winds caused by thunderstorms expected Sunday morning could spark new wildfires. A moist and unstable midlevel airmass is forecast to…

MCT: Saturday, August 22, 2020

Hot Thunderstorms;
Satellite View;
Complexes Growing;
Walbridge Uncontained;
Fire Clouds;
National Guard;
Dry Lightning;
Robert Cooper;
605 Cases;
Doubling Days;
Co-op Coping;
Alvin Johnson;
Psych Motel;
Remote Schooling;
Ed Notes;
Bad News;
Hay Wagon;
PSPS Generators;
Sun House;
Fort Flippant;
Hortense House;
Streetscape Update;
Yesterday's Catch;
Convention Muzak;
Pierce Arrow;
Jerry Scrivener;
Hop People;
Your Trash;
Gobbi Ranch;
Bamboo Paradise;
Planning Cancelled;
1947 Fire;
Indecent Joe;
1957 Dancers;
Project Sanctuary;
My Opposer;
Dem OD;
Outta Options;
Crazy People;
Found Object

MCT: Friday, August 21, 2020

Warmer Weekend;
August Complex;
Walbridge Fire;
LNU Complex;
CSD Challenger;
SCU Complex;
Distant Smoke;
Janese Convalescing;
Covid Related;
584 Cases;
Williams Responds;
Double Trouble;
Farm Stand;
Bridge Contract;
Homeless Plan;
Ukiah Homestead;
Another Arsonist;
Highway Stage;
Arsonist Convicted;
McGlashan Building;
Ed Notes;
Railroad Staff;
Greater FB;
Yesterday's Catch;
Power Supply;
Egg Hunters;
New Roof;
Retards Rule;
Basketball 1949;
Ropeless Crabbing;
Thrive Not;
Voting Nonsense;
Found Object

MCT: Thursday, August 20, 2020

Cooler Today;
Many Fires;
Evacuating Healdsburg;
Smoky State;
Windsor Ready;
579 Cases;
More Arson;
Creek Fire;
Tupper Torch;
Drive-thru Tree;
FB Update;
Fellers;
Philo Substation;
Smoke Cloud;
Hay Sale;
Massive Redwood;
Happy Manure;
Ed Notes;
Tree Train;
AV Village;
Muppet Movie;
Yesterday's Catch;
Harbingers;
Roll Cloud;
Sports Habit;
Axemen;
Amusing Americans;
Sleazy Joe;
Seabiscuit Statue;
Social Indicators;
Tree Choppers;
Another Hiroshima;
Repeal AB5;
Vichy Springs;
Stream Flows;
Good/Bad Gnus;
Getting Loomered;
Spurning AOC;
Found Object

Letters (August 19, 2020)

Unsolicited media report -- Morning TV. Channels 2, 4, 5, 7. In order to get 10 minutes of news you are required to watch and listen to 50 minutes of bullshit

Caught Between Passion & Cool

I took a stand the other day by taking a knee and kept it for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the same amount of time that Derek Chauvin

Journal of the Plague Year (#22)

This week, the other specter lurking everywhere decided to make itself more widely noticed. There could hardly be a worse time for Global Warming

Commercializing Childbirth

If you were born in the early 1950s like I was and lived in one of California’s cities or in one of its newly flourishing suburbs, you were probably born in a hospital. Like food…

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