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Posts published in January 2023

Off the Record (January 4, 2023)

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…

Valley People (January 4, 2023)

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…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023

Slight Respite | Lake Mendocino | Water Projects | Grange Hall | Sunday Breakfast | Rohnerville | AV Village | 1895 Eureka | Antisocial Media | Acorns | Ed Notes | Yesterday's Catch | Garberville Crisis | Grumpy Doctor | Garberville Images | Media Control | Todd's House | Woody's Rulins | Specialist Clogg | Tree Leaves | Football Stopped | Howlin' Wolf | Jan.6 Committee | Cheyenne Warriors | Hurry Not | Bigoted Bureaucrats | Eve Tripping | Ruling Class | Love Blurs | Musical Chairs | Chimney Sweep | Ukraine | Sea Murmur | War's Toll | Moored Barges

A Night To Remember

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.…

In Search Of Lost Truck

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…

An Island Of Lost Beauty In SF Bay

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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