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Posts published in February 2023

In the Time of the Irresponsibles

Tree Frog Johnson, aka Luis Reynaldo, was a free range pedophile who established himself in the Boonville area in the early 70s, mostly staying with his sanctioned catamite on the property of a back-to-the-land family…

Mister Nice Guy

If there is one thing you can say about me without risking a libel suit, it’s that I have terrific manners. As Bill Saroyan wrote one time in the California Pelican, “He drives you crazy,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Feb. 20, 2023

Sunny | Taya Found | AVUSD News | Pink Parasols | Creekside Aftermath | Baker Zack | Fellowship Meeting | Leadership Mendocino | Hawaii Bound | Burroughs Birthday | Ed Notes | Backyard Crop | Pot Head | Elk PO | Pillsbury Alliance | Police Reports | Boonville Namesake | Yesterday's Catch | Our Song | Keyboard Challenges | Ramparts Characters | Coke Truck | Pablo Neruda | Leaving You | Freedom Betrayed | Eighth Grade | War Pimps | Weeki Wachee

AV Unity Club: 100 Years of Service

This is the first in a series of articles about our local Unity Club in celebration of 100 continuous years of community service. The AV Unity Club was originally founded on December 8th, 1923. I…

Don’t Cry For Me, Ukiah

Or put in a parking lot… When tourists visit San Francisco they take photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower and those beautifully painted Victorian houses lined up along Alamo Square. In New York…

Drug Wars & Peace

A gorgeous clear San Francisco day. Strolling downhill from a meeting up at the medical center on how to keep the “abortion pills” available to any woman who wants and needs them in these troubled…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023

Sunny | Missing Teen | Enough Housing | Pet Jack | AV Events | Leaders Needed | Bragg Development | High Alert | Wave Explosion | Mendo Failed | Old Timers | Drought Concern | Potter Bun | Covelo Gathering | Yesterday's Catch | Guard Dog | Boogie Woogies | FOG Artists | 1922 Picnic | Marco Radio | Tethered Telephone | Disaster Capitalism | Jesus Sorry | Ask Croz | Fritzie Zivic | Ask Leguizamo | Bitter McRae | US & China | Owl Walk | Ukraine | EPA Designations | Stalin Scholar | Loaded Cane

My Travels With Wes, V

A couple of weeks ago Wes and I drove another leg of our roadside visits to Highway 128’s historic and iconic buildings. This one was an easy jaunt from the Hamar Olsen ranch, formerly Edmeades…

Only In Mendocino

A few years ago I moved with my family from the village of Mendocino, California to Coos County in Southern Oregon. We didn’t know a soul in this part of Oregon, though we have some…

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