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Monday, Monday – Can’t Trust That Day

Hoping the Mamas and Dudes would allow us a spartan titular use of their lyrics (even though our younger readers are scratching their heads, again, and wondering what we’re “babbling about” this time). So, GOOGLE REFERENCE: Mamas & the Papas Origins: Los Angeles, by way of other Hippie Hotspots History: Four people who released five…

Emerging From The Abyss, Or Sliding Further Into The Fever Dream…

… we mean, that’s the question before us as investigative committees meet, court dates loom, and what we thought were basic human rights are stripped away by people we thought were working for us. Asked for a decision on where we stand as a nation and a people facing an evolving virus, infrequent mail delivery,…

Boom Flowers, Taking The Local Pulse, And Something Skulky

As Fourth of July Weekends went this one had an unusual dynamic to it. Incurable romantics, we couldn’t help but hold the New Fourth up against Fourths long past, where dads and uncles in t-shirts lit peep-squeak pyrotechnics with their cigars in the street outside newly acquired homes while moms in pedal pushers or summer…

The Monday Missive

Keeping up with the cabal of insomniacs, news junkies, night-hawking videographers and other well-meaning ne’er do wells who seem to follow this blather sheet over its irregular appearances is turning into a full-time gig. Your Faithful Scribe, one foot already on the sandy beach of retirement, committed to an occasional delivery of some haphazardly hammered-together…

You Meet Some Of The Nicest People Under Quarantine

Blessed by our less-than-traditional business model and cache of survival food we’ve been getting along just fine during these unusual times, thanks for asking, enjoying our daily contact with friends and readers new and old. We know we’re supposed to focus on the 24/680 and have been sternly lectured for taking an interest in developments…