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Posts published in March 2024

Not Thinking About Rocks

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 —…

The Captain & Me [2000]

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…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 3/19/24

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Letters (March 19, 2024)

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…

Oscar & Caesar, Horner & Handel

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…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 3/18/24

Warm | Bracken Fern | Catching Dylan | PVP Meeting | Field Mustard | Community Challenges | Alamo Vendor | Building Projects | Illuminated Wood | Ed Notes | Pet Boomer | Palace Fate | Bunyans | Strongtown Showdown | Jughandle Cove | Medicare Scams | Feline HOF | Farewell Edie | Try Unplugging | Pinkham-Mercurio Tragedy | Pomo Parents | Pinches Chronicles | Yesterday's Catch | Irish Parade | Raymond Foye | Meeting Doug | Loud Bang | Abalone Plan | Safety Standards | Teacher Support | Deny Authority | Dismissing Negatives | Consumption Violence | Complaint Department | Hit Piece | Frown Bros | Liberals/Leftists | Wandering Jew | Lightning Strike | Having Written | Wells Allegory | Schrodinger Plates

Mission Bay On My Mind

My medical problem wasn't as grave as Bruce Anderson's (described in the AVA February 28), but I, too, have been impressed by and grateful for the care I received at UCSF's Mission Bay campus. My…

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