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Posts published in August 2021

Butt Washers & Other War Stories

I pinched another one out of my motorcycle seat recently after I made a right turn, and afterwards failed to cancel my non-self-cancelling turn indicator. An oncoming driver understandably anticipating I was about to turn…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, August 8, 2021

Slightly Milder | Tom Cahill | $300 Rabbits | Gathering Canceled | Cactus Flower | BBQ Canceled | PG&E Firestarter | Repent Ye | Water Curtailments | Wine Brick | Algal Mats | Vertiginous | Pet Blaze | Comptche PO | Reno Rodeo | Ukiah 1933 | Curtailment List | Delta Dining | Coastal Water | Table Scraps | Deputy CEOs | Constant Criticism | Yesterday's Catch | Jesus Reminder | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Riding Shotgun | Glen Ford | Painted Mask | Growing Old | Interest Free | Disturbed Minds | Child Allergy | Covid Response | Isms | Completely Symbolic | Summer Day | Collective Suicide | Key Opened

Hounds & Hogs, Men & Truffles

Among the most alluring of cross-species collaborations is truffle hunting, a pursuit that brings dog—or, more rarely these days, pig—together with man. Women, it seems, are as uncommon as swine in this field. Unearthing culinary…

Pacification

The pacifiers were sold one to a package. I asked for a dozen—maybe $20 worth back then. “That's a lot,” the clerk said. “You don't know this baby,” I told her. Bill H. was one…

Attention & Other Stories

It's all about attention: we all want it, we all need it, so how we gonna get it? There is a finite amount and social media is sucking up most of it. Thousands of engineers…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, August 7, 2021

Warm Again | Another Death | River View | Water Emergency | Free Concert | River Cleanup | Schoolbus | Crisis Log | Albion 1950 | Silly Disputes | Italian Grocery | Healdsburg Bakery | Bobcat | Referendum Bad | Larson Inn | Gun Brandishing | 1904 Stipps | Ed Notes | Opera House | Special Meeting | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | Ukiah High | Welcome Pyrocene | Sultan Says | Apple Lilac | Mummy Sale | New Path | Stengal Success | Common Sense | Covelo Cows | Raising Pigs

Brotherly Love

As an adult, the smartest thing my mentally ill and drug-addicted brother did was to move to the City and County of San Francisco. I was there the day it happened. I had just picked…

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