Water Monster Attracts Fans In Walnut Creek Saturday
If life hands you an unexpected water feature, play through even if it’s over your Nikes. In the 500 block of Monarch Ridge Road in Walnut Creek.
Highway 24 Gets Us Comin’ and Goin’ Wednesday
No luck for those using our namesake freeway today with crashes and fires and all kinds of stuff messing with traffic and people’s lives.Where this morning’s paralyzing crash was in the westbound direction early this morning this (pictured) car fire cooked an SUV traveling in the EASTBOUND direction at around 2:50pm and, as you can…
Morning Commute Slows To A Crawl After Highway 24 Crash
Traffic backing up into Orinda and Moraga (shown) with folks looking for alternative routes after a messy truck crash and spill on the west end of the Caldecott Tunnel this morning.Inundated with calls from late, frustrated, pretty dang angry folks trying to keep appointment and their bosses happy, etc.No estimated time given for a re-opening.
The Sattiday Scrawl: Rough Roads; FOP Flop; And “Can We Get Some Justice?”
The practice we love most has been hard for us lately – for a lot of different reasons – but mostly due to preternatural stupidity encountered after we send our words off into the ether. We never expected everyone to like and admire what we had to say all the time, but it appears we’re…
The X Files: Nazis Quieren Taco Bell; “Information, Please” And Hoverboard Blues
Oddly – because we thought uncles Lou, Mike and Joe had settled this problem once and for all back in ’43 and ’44 – we started hearing of men in quasi-matching attire bedecked with swastikas giving the hated Nazi salute to passing motorists on overpasses in Contra Costa Wednesday. They unfurled a sheet with some…
Sunday Revue: Get’cher Mazzy Runnin’, Return Of The Freakazoids; And Kursk AGAIN?
Morning, 24/680 People – and those tuning in from beyond the limits of our intended broadcast – here we are again. Another Sunday is upon us. Time for omelettes and coffee and a review of the week past. Great seeing some of our local cities mentioned on an international stage as the Olympics played on…
Days Of Whine And Roses; Water Water; And Petrol Bombs In Bristol
Mum always wanted a doctor in the family and we’re feeling particularly obliging because we’re out there taking the pulse of the masses at large and posting our findings. Saturday night’s test results were “thready” as folks we talked with were either engaged in Date Night behavior, “tired of politics” or comfortably in the arms…
Wednesday Observations: Clicker Pickers; Overpass Politics, And The Candy Man
Skipping happily past commentary on the national political front in favor of our continued survival we have a few things of interest to address going on here in the 24/680. As leafy Moraga learned June 30 there are highly mobile crews of garage door Clicker Pickers roaming local cities and towns looking for soft targets…
Flags Come Down, New Flags Go Up… On Lafayette’s El Curtola Bridge
Jockeying for “control” of Lafayette’s highly visible El Curtola Bridge appears to be entrenched and underway Tuesday as a flag display intended as a show of support for former president Trump came down – to be replaced by Israeli and American flags flown in support of Israeli hostages. CalTrans workers and California Highway Patrol officers…
Flags, Signage Come Down On Lafayette’s El Curtola Bridge Tuesday
CalTrans workers and CHP officers turned out to enforce the ban on display of banners, flags, sheets, and signs from the chain link fencing lining El Curtola Bridge in Lafayette Tuesday. Neighbors and motorists have complained for, well, years now that the frequent demonstrations on the bridge – a favorite of local groups of all…