Off the Record (Jan 28, 2015)
THE WILLITS BYPASS is already falling down. The collapse last Thursday (22 January) of a section of the framing for the Willits Bypass concrete pour, will undoubtedly grow into a bigger problem than it...
View ArticleWhippits & Highway Death
When a courthouse hack complains of a slow news week, it doesn’t mean nothing important happened. What it means is that all the drama that makes interesting reading happened behind the scenes. It means...
View ArticleHighway 128: AV’s Main Street
One-Twenty-Eight. The highway. That $%&(@! road. However one refers to California State Highway 128, it is Anderson Valley’s main street and its main portal to the outside world. Highway 128 is...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View (Jan 28, 2015)
To begin this week let’s hear from our 3-Dot regular, The Old Buzzard, with another in his insightful series. “Signs that the Apocalypse is Approaching.”
View ArticleA Simple Lot Split
You might think that an ordinary lot split proposal in Yorkville wouldn't require too much in the way of furrowed brows from our Board of Supervisors, but this is Mendocino County and nothing is as...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday, Jan 28, 2015
Helping Professionals; GJ Denouncing; Ochoa Fundraiser; Anarchy's Team; Vineyard Sale; Drug Perception; Phone Staring; Falsework Construction; Bourgeoisie Crimes; Berlin Wall; Postal Service; Laughing...
View ArticleLetters (Jan 28, 2015)
To all those know me (Big 'B'), I am sad to say I won't be returning to Mendocino County after my stay here in the California Department of Corrections is complete later this year. I'm doing life on...
View ArticleSex, Drugs & Poetry? 1969-70
I was working at the Tides Bookstore in Sausalito in the spring of 1970 when my book came out. I had been a Milwaukee Poet, and with my friend Chuck put out a little poetry magazine we called Pretty...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Happy New Year!
She moved as if she were visiting from a planet with a less dense and restrictive atmosphere; gravity seemed to affect her less and air could not gain purchase on her surfaces. With elegant...
View ArticleOf Cats & Food
We have one cat now, a twelve-year-old shorthaired gray named Django. We almost lost him eighteen months ago to complications arising from his extreme obesity—he weighed over twenty pounds—and in order...
View ArticleFinding Orlando
Marking the beginning of a new year on January first is a foolish thing. January is a cold, wet month filled with gloomy skies. Check the obituary page, more people give up the ghost in January than...
View ArticleChange The Name!
I saw grizzlies in Yellowstone in October. About as close as you can come to going back to native worship. I stopped again at Little Bighorn on the way back home. About as close as you can come to...
View ArticleDucks or Beavers?
So which is Oregon’s Official State Animal? Is it the duck or the beaver? Considering how no professional gambler has ever made a living betting with the crowd, let’s put aside popular sentiment,...
View ArticleMy Two Jobs
Unionville, Connecticut was the other side of the tracks - the sleazy, working-class end of Farmington, so disreputable it had to have a different name, lest Farmington proper be embarrassed. And it...
View ArticleMendocino Talking: Terry d’Selkie
(Terry started out in Utah, became a teacher, then moved to California and then to Mendocino County where she has been involved in school gardens, harvesting seaweed, and other community projects…) I...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan 29, 2015
KZYX Elections; Catch of the Day; Raven Earlygrow; Mental Health Court; Nostalgia on Steroids; Crazy Driving; Offshore Quake; FB Coast Trail; Remembering Treefrog; Museum Exhibits; CalFire Graduates;...
View Article‘Search for Truth: The Seeker Begins’
Self-published novels don’t have to be self-indulgent. Bryan Radzin’s one and only self-published novel describes the cross continental adventures of a young, idealistic California journalist who...
View ArticleOscar, Scammed
My son and I argue movies all the time. He thinks that the Academy and other film industry prizes are well deserved while I can’t recall a Golden Globe or Oscar for a movie I truly enjoyed. He says I’m...
View ArticleFlight
(The following excerpt is from a chapter by Anderson Valley resident Susan Robinson, of her recently published book, The Music from the Lighthouse — wherein we follow the journey of Autumn Pender, a...
View ArticleThe Dow Or The Tao
No stocks or bonds, no savings account, no credit cards. Essentially I am an economic non-person, living on the cheap. The upside of this is no debt, the downside is few luxuries, at least of the type...
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