So it’s official. The Gealeys are retiring and selling the coffeehouse to longtime employee Juan and his wife. It’s very odd. One must understand that I have probably logged more hours at Headlands than anywhere else on earth. More cathartic events in my life have happened at Headlands. More evenings of tea and festivity, good …
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Ceasefire
I’ve tried to stay out of the raging debate over the current escalation in hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, primarily because it’s such a fraught issue. Before you read on, you should probably understand that my stance on Israel is that it does not have a right to exist. If this is an issue for …
You can make a difference
Thirty years ago, a group of concerned citizens spent more than two months at Mono Lake conducting a full environmental survey. As the Chronicle reports, these college students, now professors, physicians, and inventors, among other things, recently returned to the lake to celebrate their victory. Today, Mono Lake is healthy, due to mandates that the …
Update from the Scrabble Frontlines
I worked my opponents thoroughly, thanks to “detacher.” My final score: 208. The next closest: 106. Oh, yes. Scrabble groove, baby.
Friday Cat Blogging: Underneath
The under things edition. Loki has quite the love affair going on with this rug. I think he’s under the impression that no one can see him if all his body parts are under it. Unfortunately, his body parts are a little too large to fit under it in totality. In this shot he’s lying …
Whatever happened to the extended family?
So I was lying on the roof reading the Sunday Chronicle Magazine that I scavenged out of a garbage can and I noticed this article and felt compelled to respond. Read it, and then I’ll tell you my thoughts on it. It’s ok, I’ll wait. So the basic gist of the article is “look, loser …
Thin is complicated
When obesity surgery first entered the public consciousness, it certainly sounded like a silver bullet. Certainly, there are risks associated with abdominal surgery, but imagine having a procedure which would alter how much you could eat and digest, thus instantly paving your path to thinness. For the chronically obese, surgeons argued, the procedure was a …
Blogaversary
This is my 400th post, and it also happens to be my year anniversary. Precisely one year ago, I made my first post on this ain’t livin’, in its early and dot infested incarnation on blogspot. The site has certainly come a long way since then, from sporadic updates to daily ones, and through a …
Flower Thief
I caught someone stealing flowers the other day. Purely by accident, actually. I was opening the upstairs windows to get some cross ventilation going on and I noticed a figure furtively skulking in the yard (inasmuch as such a thing is possible in broad daylight), who glanced up when they heard the windows squeaking. I …
What do we want? Class war! When do we want it? NOW!
Fair warning: this post contains a lot of bitterness and vitriol. I debated whether or not I should post it at all and in the end, after talking with a friend, decided that I should. For people not steeped in the timber culture, the attitudes held by a lot of Fort Bragg citizens don’t make …