Category Archives: California

two marvels today

. . the bank machine gave me an old-style $twenty, the first I’d seen in months; and I saw a squirrel burying seeds (conifer), which I can’t recall ever seeing before.

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yes, I’m bigger than you; so?

Lately the panhandlers (and nobody else) keep addressing me as “big guy”. They did not always, or so it seems. I suppose I could reply, “What do you want, little guy?”

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progressive tolerance

Blood Libel at SFSU [link changed; my original links for this item are 404]

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did the earth move for you?

At 22:00:29 we had what felt like the biggest quake since 1989: a 5.2 near Gilroy. Details here.

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hey nonny nonny

The Angry Clam posted some pix of the Berkeley Morris. My then wife used to dance with this team, from 1986 to (i guess) 1992; but I can’t recognize any faces in these shots. (Terry O’Neill, the Fool, was killed … Continue reading

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fatherhood changes you

There’s a man in my neighborhood who has batwings tattooed around his eyes, a crown of thorns on his forehead, demons and such covering both arms . . . . He was in the Kwik-E-Mart just now, wearing Pikachu slippers.

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DOM bait

Craig Schamp grouses: This state is run by boobs. I wish Condi Rice would return and run against Babs Boxer for Senate in 2004 . . . . Better Condi’s boobs than Babs’ boobs, eh? The question calls for closer examination.

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