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10/18/89
Zeno could not get a flight to any Bay Area airport. Not Oakland, not SFX, no way San Jose. Telephone service was down and electricity out all over Santa Cruz County. No buses, no trains. Bridges required support and tunnels … Continue reading
Posted in environment, fiction, Uncategorized, wtf
Tagged fiction, humor, jazz, Loma Prieta Earthquake, religion, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Mountains, whales, writing
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Sticky Stuff
I was on my own spinning idle threads. That only takes a weighted body so far down the road. None of the proscribed directions, not the rights nor the lefts, the jabs and the counter punches, nor the narrow … Continue reading
Posted in humor, satire, Uncategorized, writing, wtf
Tagged body language, comedy, criminals, injuries, justice, language, Monterey Bay, nouns vs verbs, Santa Cruz, writing
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One Equinox Or The Other
The most recent gathering of the loosely affiliated millionaires who smoke weed in Santa Cruz County, not an organization in any ordinary sense of the word, but a coalescence of copacetic spirits, sort of, in which the … Continue reading
Posted in animals and birds, culture, tawny owl, writing
Tagged astronomy, expectations, family, jazz, millionaires who smoke weed, Monterey Bay, redwood trees, Santa Cruz, smoking weed, tweens
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Scenes of the Crimes
Savage warriors from Christmas attacked me on the day after Halloween. They carried sharp hooks and dull beats as weapons. The dull beats came from drum machines that were only a small percentage human. There were no … Continue reading
Posted in culture, parenting, shopping
Tagged Christmas, gentrification, Halloween, holidays, McMansions, parenting, Santa Cruz, sex wax, surfing, tweens
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After All Charges Were Dropped
My most dependable friend, the unpaid Internet content provider, who is quite dependently wealthy, and rarely sleeps for long, which means he still lives in a big house with his fabulously more wealthy mother who tiptoes quietly around … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Uncategorized, wtf
Tagged blasphemy, blogging, coding, fair trade coffee, family, Internet, Monterey Bay, networking, Santa Cruz, tweens
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Passing Pleasure Point
I was late. I was sweating. I smelled like a weasel or a polecat if not an outright skunk and there was no joy in ancient Mudville. There had been trouble but it was not my fault. Anyway, … Continue reading
Posted in birds, culture, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged anchovies, family, food, Monterey Bay, Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz, sol surfers, surfing, tweens
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Dem Dweebs
When I recently called to register a spirited complaint to the formally stellar public radio station in Santa Cruz about the the axing of my favorite rhythm and blues show on Friday evenings that I enjoyed each week along with a … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged dweebs, food chain, NPR news, rhythm & blues, Santa Cruz, shake your money maker, Silicon Valley, techno-yuppies, writing
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The Essential Bounty of Slime
I have lately been trying to find patterns to think about over and over in the observation of what is called nature by humans outside of my locked door. In my opinion, I was having a pretty good day at … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, satire, Uncategorized
Tagged banana slug, daily post, formulas, holocaust, humor, Jews, redwood trees, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz Mountains, writing challenge
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I was superficially looking into the depths of Monterey Canyon, which is older, deeper, and wiser than the supposedly Grand Canyon, and is protectively covered by the swollen waters of Monterey Bay to boot, without the misfortune to be stuck … Continue reading