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Posts published in March 2022

Mendocino County Today: Monday, March 7, 2022

Dry Week | Handyman Hendricks | Ukraine Updates | Reckless Driver | Corrections | DeCamp Friends | Illegal Wiretapping | Electrician Shippey | Gas Prices | Restaurant Tips | Right Words | Good Work | Past Tense | Dennis Cunningham | New Drink | County Pot | Theater Benefit | Critical Shortages | Coastal Kestrel | Tech Help | Deaf Ears | American Oligarchs | Video Games | Fully Armed | Neck Stabbing | Yesterday's Catch | Anger Junkies | Revolution Required | Dire Warning | War Trauma | Unexpected Resistance | Bombmakers | Housing Stock | Shingle Mill | Water Challenges | City Hall | Bad Planning | Gold Fever | Shipping Wharf | Russian Protests | Kid One | Aaron Bassler

Beatniks Are Out to Make it Rich

I pretty much burnt out on beatniks and their writings long ago. They’re mostly a young man’s fancy, as in, what can seem adventurous, romantic and yes, even cool on the page in one’s youth…

Blank Walls Better than Murals

Is mural fever once again sweeping Ukiah?  Ukiah went a hundred years without murals, and today you can hardly spit without hitting one, hint hint. Having learned nothing from the examples that festoon city exteriors,…

Memory Loss

Review of ‘Loss of Memory is Only Temporary.’ By Johanna Kaplan. Ecco Press, HarperCollins. New York, 2022. 248 pp. $16.99. Mental Health, its circumstances, its manageable and unmanageable characteristics, its treatments, its colossal direct and…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 6, 2022

Dry Warming | Calypso Orchid | Sabers Rattling | Seeking Anson | Courage Videos | Pet Pluto | Crofoot House | See Ya | Mental Health | Hardware Display | GJ Agrees | Mary Jane | Baseball Dying | Trent Video | Crony GJ | Ukraine Convoy | GJ FAQ | Jazz Age | Peptoc Hotline | Water Grants | Grammar School | McGuire Promises | 1910 Class | Salmon Forecast | Albion Crew | Auto Tips | DeFencing | Small Burn | Yesterday's Catch | Tenderloin | Lovely SF | Absinthe Day | Remote School | War Casualties | Beatle Burning | Ukiah Craig | Big River | Marco Radio | Ukraine 89 | War Crime

Handel Makes War

Yesterday began for me before dawn when I awoke, went downstairs and watched footage of the night sky above Kyiv lit up with the bursts of artillery fire.  Looking out through the kitchen window, I…

House of Paté

At San Francisco’s Maison Nico—an épicerie (a grocery) and a café—where I’ve been shopping, eating and sipping wine and coffee at least once a week for the past six months, I’m reminded of Paris in…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 5, 2022

Blustery Winds | 13 New Cases | Shelling Mariupol | War Casualties | Indoor Masking | Camp Intrigue | Unenforced Edicts | Grazing Sheep | Patricia Marien | Manzanita Blossoms | Docents Needed | GP Tour | AVHC Fundraising | Game Park | Hospital Bed | Caregiver Wanted | Kendall Bro | Railway Application | Hot Rodders | Mendo IT | Exotic Dancer | Ed Notes | McKee Sentenced | Ax Boys | Help Al | Yesterday's Catch | Finland Station | Old Mexico | Refugee Support | Russian Meddling | Baseball Lockout | Putin Popped | Degenerates | Spurfree | Disasters Looming | Odd Fellows | Slave Labor | Factory Pipes | Ukraine Nukes | Young Chaplin | Police State | Clean Hands | Batter Up | Marco Radio | Spent Weapon | Attack Surprise | Shipping Out

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