Sheriff Kendall told the ‘Like It Or Not’ podcast dudes in Ukiah recently that he will need an additional ten uniformed officers (and probably a few more non-uniformed) to staff the new “Mental Health Wing”…
Posts published in March 2024
In those rare moments when the real pierces the illusions of Oscar Night, I grip the arm of my sofa, waiting for hidden burner rockets beneath the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard finally to ignite…
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One tolerable, humid yet cloudless July morning in the late 60s, the apparent aim was to relocate a buttload of ugly, undistinguished rocks — are stones bigger? to call them “boulders” would be hyperbolic —…
I have always loved a good sea story. It doesn't matter whether it's fighting a typhoon with Conrad, rounding the Horn with Chichester or kicking some nautical butt with Aubrey and Hornblower. If it's got…
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Had to happen and you hung in longer than any sane editor/publisher would dare, but it still smarts to know the paper of record in my small world will be no more…
Just three years shy of his 100th birthday, Oscar hoisted himself off his slab to stand at attention one more time this Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. He’ll try his best to…