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Posts published in November 2023

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023

Sun/Rain | Lost Pug | Cubbison Court | Ag Department | Hellish Muzak | Librarian Nik | MacKerricher Fog | Clunky AF | Food Drive | Fundraiser Date | Jughandle Rock | Ed Notes | Boonville Claus | Frida Fest | Holiday Events | Name Changers | Big Surf | Blacksmith Shop | Ukiah Contrasts | Willits Moonrise | Fishy Trial | Yesterday's Catch | Strange Situation | Year End | Backing Biden | Sideline Fire | Genocide Joe | Maginot Line | Truce Extension | Onions | Nabka Two | Jimi 67 | Alt Christmas | Mindfulness Now | Bipartisan Deception | American Treasure | Dmitri Ermakov | Suppressed Anxieties | Machine Living | Bots

Letters (November 28, 2023)

In my last two letters I may have been a bit off-putting to some readers. I want to apologize. That's not who I really am. I suffer from severe mental illness…

The Fox & The Leafhoppers

Is it time to confess environmental crimes against nature?  I had decided to expand my pot patch into a new area in the back forty,…

Warden Duffy

The warden of one of the world’s largest and most overcrowded penitentiaries might reasonably be expected to be a burly, hard-spoken disciplinarian, packing a gun…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Nov. 27, 2023

Frosty Sunny | Water Craft | Food Drive | Tiny Home | AV Events | Allen Update | Forager Fair | Radical Finns | Noyo View | Court Calendar | Old Buckhorn | Mendo Tourism | Painted Ladies | Bankrupt & Absurd | Hard Lessons | Safe Passage | Your Job | Yesterday's Catch | Bohemian Publisher | Creekflection | Senior Housing | Reduce Wine | Pac-12 Implosion | Madden Raiders | NFL Opinions | Willie Pep | Police Chase | Sobriety Test | Wild Animals | Hostage Exchange | Pause-ocide | Last Wronged | Human Connection | Real Evidence | Attention Deficit | Cyber Monday

The Thrill Of The Now

It was fitting that Rafael Puyana, the Colombian harpsichordist who died ten years ago in Paris at the age of eighty-one, should have made his…

Thanksgiving: Helping Those In Need

“Alright then,” announced Mr. Bumpers. “It’s decided. We’ll open the house to those less fortunate, like homeless-type people guests, right? All in?” Nods of agreement…

A Night At The Movies

It was late summer, 1987. A hot afternoon was fading into evening, after I'd spent the day working six games as an umpire in the…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023

Frosty Sunny | Dead Ray | Car Removal | Deter Woodpeckers | McGourty Report | Gravelly Valley | Stupid Caltrans | Candidate Rogers | Boonville Sky | Ed Notes | Watching Jake | Pet Honey | Ocean Dangers | Hunting Dog | Benefit Dinner | Giant Sequoia | Cooking Joy | Cord Trick | Frank Mendosa | Yesterday's Catch | Farmhouses | Marco Radio | Run CMC | Fisher Stinks | Henry Armstrong | Positive Step | Muffler Hanger | Prisoner Exchange | Last Election | Bombing Hospitals | Fiscal Cliff | Ukraine | Derby Winner | Human Connection | Old Album | TG Poem | Jayne Mansfield | Buffy Pretendian | The Chief | That Day | Roy Campanella | Bogus Officers | Intelligent Life

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