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Posts published in March 2023

Mendocino County Today: Monday, March 6, 2023

Cold Showers | Snow Rescues | CSD Meeting | Chick Shuttle | School News | Fertile Eggs | South Ukiah | Unity Anniversary | Bill Update | Graffito | Grange Events | Bunyan Days | Ed Notes | Local Sharpener | Cannabummer | Snowbound | Donkey Butter | Killer Bob | Yesterday's Catch | School Tragedy | Mt Konocti | Punker Query | Deregulation | Dem Commies | Book of Marmon | Slavomir Rawicz | Mums | Spirit Lyft | 1970 | Climate Cycler | Squalor | Maga Badges | Working Undercover | Old GPS | Lucky Ducks | Lead Belly | Chron Chaplain | Traveling Sharpener | Peddling Darkness | Taxing Billionaires | Smoking Hash | Acid Trip | Ingrates | Big Bear | Ukraine | Toxic Air

My Travels With Wes, VI (The Last Ride?)

This “last ride” actually occurred a couple of weeks ago during our voyage from Josie Brusa’s home on the old Deadmeades winery property back to Boonville via the Walter Prather home visit and stop by…

The Salton Sump & The Virtual Sea

The Salton Sea, its glory days long gone, is now a 35-mile- long growing hazard to public health for miles around, a mortal danger to the water fowl migrating on the Pacific Flyway, death to…

You Should Live So Long

People, places and things we can do without: Bars that don't have a back mirror. When you're having a drink alone (hi there) it's nice to have a familiar face to stare at, even your…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 5, 2023

Cold Showers | Celebrating Women | AVUSD News | Gualala Fundraising | Budget Bunglers | Stump Hole | Dismal Salmon | Pet Pancake | Historical Society | Scout Cookies | Vineyard Workers | Circus Performers | AV Events | Yesterday's Catch | It's Over | Bald Hills | Weather Break | Donkey Crew | Special Debt | Route 66 | James Abourezk | Ruthenian Woman | Being Myself | We Kill | Taos Snow | Minions Required | Ukraine | War Stories | Mad World | In August | Motion Picture

Handel’s Royal Banquet

(I’ll be playing an organ recital next Sunday, March 5th at 4:00p.m. at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. In another bit of shameless PR for…

L.A. Woman

L. A. Woman... L.A. Woman…” by the Doors of course. Goin’ down there from Sacramento to where they created the L. A. album — 8512 Santa Monica Blvd — during my yearly trip to L.A.…

Millionaire Publisher Declares He’s Broke (1974)

On the night before the Thanksgiving of 1964 I was comfortably seated in the neo-Edwardian lobby of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City having a drink with Ramparts Magazine publisher Edward Keating. The occasion…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 4, 2023

Winter Storm | Willits Sunset | Boonville Water | Navarro Point | Billboard Richie | 20 View | Valley Chats | Drum Circle | Beer Fest | Community Fair | Adventist Fail | Orth Honored | Ed Notes | Distant Ridge | Medical Miracle | Yesterday's Catch | Ukiah Weary | Freeway Close | Marco Radio | Drive-In Theater | Stockton Asylum | Bonsai Cedars | Toxic Mess | Night Nurse | Quilty's Story | Cherry's Hamburgers | Norwegians Would | Rat Tanner | Ukraine | Lie/Truth | Peace Sign | Red Lines | Abe Festooned

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