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Posts published in June 2023

Mendocino County Today: Monday, June 19, 2023

Cool Day | Sunset Colors | Urgent Care | Cow | AVUSD News | Another Fiasco | Severns Protest | Recent History | Homeless Inc | Crap Elsewhere | County Biz | Speaking Up | Ed Notes | Laura Lammers | Yesterday's Catch | Colonel Kramer | Ominous Sign | Victims | Great Lesson | Thanks | Adventurous Boy | Rich People | Ukraine | Taunts | Arraignment Week | 1956 Women | Gershkovich Fate | Chicago Wall | Propaganda Works | Middle Aged

In Exile from Sonoma

I recently spent three days in the town of Sonoma, visiting friends and revisiting familiar places like Oak Hill Farm that I wrote about in…

Remembering Wanda Tinasky

In the early 1980s, a faithful correspondent, Wanda Tinasky, who purported to be a literary bag lady who lived under bridges on the Mendocino Coast,…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 18, 2023

Cooling Trend | Willits Cows | Earthquake | Watershed Cleanup | Parlin Tables | Teacher Gordon | Civil Service | Vicious Bull | Mockstep Endorsement | Pet Valley | Benefit Concert | 1953 Ukiah | More Parties | Fern | Ed Notes | Noyo Boats | Sheriff Byrnes | Old Leaf | Braxton Bragg | Yesterday's Catch | Absolutely Nothing | Diminishing Chihuahuas | Dystopian Trends | Tres Gabachos | Marco Radio | Alcoholic Preferences | Gut Sense | Ukraine | Solar Gig | JFK & Che | Colonel Walken | Ellsberg Interview | Thatcherism Reeks

Our Times: Sticks & Seeds

The NY Times showed extreme contempt for readers June 6 with a front-page story hedded “US Officials Detect Signs of Kyiv’s Counteroffensive.” Why pretend that…

Unleashing The Zombies

Many of today’s social ills can be traced to, and laid at the doorstep of, well-meaning intellectual dwarves who were naive, smug and opinionated. In…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, June 17, 2023

Pattern Shift | Gulls | Quinn Greene | Baseball Star | Ed Notes | Driftwood | Streetscape Project | Bike Handrail | Louise Comments | Mendo Tower | Battery Disposal | Volunteer Training | Covelo Astronaut | Historical Society | Yesterday's Catch | Favorite Redwoods | Bloomsday | Oakland Ass | Pillsbury Airstrip | Big Money | Walker Balls | Native Californians | All Wrong | Dem Favor | First Ever | Cartoony | Dirt Nap | Bunker Bought | Whisker Evidence | Marco Radio | Greetings | Prodigies | Shit Show | Not Knowing | German Elvis | Everybody Knows | Mechanic Priests | Sister Site | Riff Raff | Dybbuk | Daniel Ellsberg | Hole Puncher | NATO Membership | Ukraine | Burn Brightly

Adventures in Greater TinselTown

The generosity of three people Tina Walter, her sister Lisa and Peter Gordon led us to an eye opening mini vacation at a Vintage beach…

The Tunnel at the End of the Light

Beware the caption writers of the sixties. They lump it all as a decade of protest and malcontent, which it of course was. But to…

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