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Posts published in February 2023

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023

Showers | Mendo 1868 | Estuary Notes | Climbing Rock | Military Equipment | Pet Donald | Native Grasses | Curious Seaweed | Police Misconduct Cases | Blattner Roadsign | Ed Notes | Beautiful Small | Quake Rubble | AV Events | Necessary DUI | Vintage Colombi | DUI Case | Earth Tongue | German Tourist | Yesterday's Catch | Flag Football | Tardigrade Mum | Marco Radio | Big Sur | Breathe | Prince Pauper | Saucy Tales | Corrupt DNC | Accidents Prohibited | Ukraine | Spy Balloon | Robinspotting | U.S. Socialism | Reclaim Attention | Exemplars

Just Like That, No Ford Taurus?

Things you don’t see much of anymore, and other observations: SKATEBOARDS: Gone, down south anyway. I’ve yet to spot even one. ACNE ON TEENS: What happened to zits? Where have all the pimples gone, long…

Jorge Luis Borges: The Vision Of Amber

Being blind and a poet is half way to Homer. If in addition, the blind poet is Argentinian, the path can't be very long. It isn't necessary to sail treacherous seas, nor follow chalky trails…

‘Love It Or Leave It’

It still seems to be a popular bumper strip — “America, love it or leave it!” — and it sticks in the craw as well as to the chromium. Along with its gag writer's glibness,…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023

Wet Ahead | Seascape | AVUSD News | Navarro Bridge | Road Map | ER Bill | Variety Show | Deer | PA Housing | Van Zandts | Fuel Breaks | Mural Talk | Artists' Collective | Clearlake Sunset | FEMA Funds | Windflower Catch | Public Records | Mendo Main | Benefit Concert | Earthworks | Hurst Memories | Yesterday's Catch | Kaep Insurance | Get Ready | Humboldt Honey | Bosa | Marco Radio | Angel Neighbors | Chapter 16 | Brady Day | Aggravated Arson | Perfect Woman | Vineyard Ducks | Russian Athletes | Lightning | Pleiku Letter | Tomato Rainbow | Memphis Bee | Phil's Ex | Going Green | Suspected | Ukraine | Young Shuckers | Lose Lose | Palindromists

Weed BnB

I launched the prototype of a Weed BnB last week and I don't think the first visitors ever stopped smiling or smoking. (I do like to playfully confront obsessive addicts at times, like when I…

Victor Navasky, R.I.P.

One fine day in the Winter of 1958, two oddly dressed men appeared in the narrow doorway of my office in the Yale Daily News building. The office was small, despite my grandiose title of…

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