Both the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are calling on the Chinese government to be more transparent regarding the outbreak of COVID following Beijing’s abrupt halt of its Zero-COVID policy last…
Posts published in January 2023
A VERY POWERFUL PACIFIC CYCLONE is rapidly strengthening and heading closer to the West Coast. The storm will bring heavy rain and flooding, strong to damaging winds, very large surf, isolated strong thunderstorms and heavy,…
HAVE THE FASCISTS begun to make their move? Tacoma, Washington, lost electricity Christmas morning when three power substations in the area were “attacked” by unknown suspects. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said that responding officers…
SITTING HERE on the left bank of an atmospheric river that just ran by me as the tv weathercasters hype three more rivers on the way. The weather people are very excited, speaking into their…
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I met Eric Clapton while sailing on San Francisco Bay in the late summer of 1967. His band, Cream, was playing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, their first time on the West coast.…
From the time I met him in the 1990s as a one-man stampede through local bars and saloons until they found him dead on his kitchen floor, he was a big, belligerent, malignant, wonderful caustic…
Call it human perversity, or an innate preoccupation with the lost and the destroyed. In any case wastelands, those spaces where nothing seems to grow, have inspired poets, writers and artists as much if not…
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