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Posts published in April 2023

A Land Without Bars

Needing assurance it was still in business, I pushed the Forest Club door open, took a stool and called for a cold can of Coors.  Good choice, this, I told myself.  Last time here I…

Putting The Silicon In Silicon Valley

Picture the following age-old scene: a writer sitting at a kitchen table, pretending to work. Set it 40 years ago. The Reagan/Thatcher Conservatives are in power and everything is broken, but our subject is the…

Ransoming Pagan Babies

There is something to be said for the disadvantages of Catholic education, at least as it was in San Francisco of the logy, foggy 50s. For one thing, in grammar school I learned about ransoming…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, April 17, 2023

Evening Showers | Buoy Repair | Teen Murder | Ag Leader | Education Foundation | Ridgewood Summit | Covelo Question | Hedgehog Books | IOOF Ukiah | Three Jewels | Toad & Frog | Community Morale | Talmage Market | Mendocino Theatre | Debra Keipp | Paradise Lost | Yesterday's Catch | Tulare Lake | Never Progressing | Deregulation Fiasco | Empire Secrecy | Industrial Ag | Dead Men | Totalitarian Dystopia | Unbuild Walls | Lady Detective | Capitalism | Editor Killed | Ferry Building | National Genealogy | Grooming Kids | Parachute Scam | Schoolbus Stripes | Bookish Poser | Doesn't Matter | Ukraine | Justice Sponsors

Ecstasy

Have you ever taken Ecstasy? Is that what they call “Molly”? I never have, never wanted to, figured I never would, but now I’m wondering. I have a friend living in the boonies far away…

When Boonville Was A Fightin’, Dyin’ Kinda Town

I was on my way to the Lodge one Saturday morning to pick up a six-pack for later that night when the bar’s door suddenly banged open and a small, wiry young man came flying…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, April 16, 2023

Mostly Cloudy | Ky Unstuck | Another Body | Joaquin Wanted | Tick Bites | Pet Walter | El Nino | Drunken Assault | Ukiah Planetarium | Swollen Foot | Lovelorn Luis | First Cowbird | Bookshop Events | Chess Club | AV Events | Roysum Benefit | Yesterday's Catch | Kings Win | Westport Fog | Dancing Men | Ukiah T-Shirt | Marco Radio | Quake Riskmap | Deadpool Threat | Washing Machine | Strategic Leaks | Military Secrets | Ukraine | Stormclouds | Gerontocracy | Keep Looking? | Reck's Diary | Free Assange | Lombard Street | Catholic School | Giant Redwoods

Springtime in Anderson Valley

According to the Visit Mendocino, “The drive through Mendocino County is on many winding roads that will take a while to complete. It is never dull as the locations and views are majestic at almost…

Falstaff & The Whale

Not a Fat Tuesday, but a Fat Weekend. On Saturday morning the Metropolitan Opera simulcast of Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff. On Sunday night a home viewing of The Whale. Both are all about fatness. The…

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