"But the world is suffering and I want to feel it without it killing me. Without it sapping my spirit. I want to feel it and mark it and with the mark help stop it. But I’m afraid I don’t know how.
I scan the mental-health support and resources QR code, but the link is broken."
Claire Vaye Watkins mulls over the final Sundance in Park City, "where the drinks were good, and the nature documentaries were, for the most part, sad."
A timeless Nihilist Arby's tweet from July 4 2020 that just keeps on giving.
"The US kills people who “need killing” all the time. We’re on a campaign of killing unidentified guys in boats in the Gulf of Dementia b/c the gov't claims they’re drug dealers. We execute lots of people, many of whom did what they were accused of, many of whom have IQs above 70. We shoot protesters. We shoot people on the very thin pretense that they were “threatening” police officers. We kill Iranians- military & civilians- & boast about how we’re going to kill more."
Friends don't let friends use #Siteground to host their WordPress blogs and email.
Honestly, an AI "support" nightmare that just keeps on giving.
All my Siteground-hosted websites are down, as are associated email accounts. Have been so for over an hour.
Websites, Site Tools, WordPress Admin -- nothing works.
How great would it be if this company had a System Status page after log-in? If there IS one, I can't find it.
Ten (10) Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) chrysalises awarded to me today by my good pal Al Kyte. They're shown here clinging to the roof seam of a mesh and vinyl cage.
The caterpillars only feed on Dutchman's Pipe (Aristolochia californica), and I have a lot of the latter hanging on a fence on the
north side of the front yard.
The catch?
The chrysalises won't produce butterflies until April 2027.
I wait patiently.
Saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Edberg today.
Steve was a mainstay of the Davis, CA music scene. He could play anything, with little rehearsal-- jazz, rock, progrock, psych-space jams (my personal favorite)... you name it.
His intellect - characterized by lightning, arid wit and an absurdly caustic sense of humor - was immediately irresistible.
Steve was a great drummer and a great hang.
And he loved cats.
He will be missed.
I visited Manzanar National Historic Site over Memorial Day weekend and deadheaded and pruned the rose garden. I shot this video before departing.
There had been a 75-mph windstorm the weekend before, which mangled or removed many of the blooms, so the roses looked a bit bare when I was done. By now it's likely they're blooming profusely.
YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE! AND YOU. WILL. ATONE!
Happy 78th birthday to this guy.
Robert Fripp's 80th is tomorrow.
Have a very May weekend.
Was wondering what was taking them so long.
Producer Jack Douglas (November 6, 1945 – May 11, 2026)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvKTmvGJse8&list=RDkvKTmvGJse8&start_radio=1
The weirdly ambiguous (and inadvertently? negative) connotation of the neologism "Califordable" is not lost on those of us who pretend to be able to afford to live here. (Use in a sentence: "I've given up on this place being affordable. I don't know if I could even afford Califordable.")
The only question now is how what level of humilation will Hilton experience on June 2nd?
More posts today about the economy-disapproval poll that don't cite who conducted the poll, or where the chart appeared.
On Tuesday, May 12th at 3pm PT, I'll have a live virtual office hour devoted entirely to the rapidly-developing El Niño event, including the rising potential for a very strong event by late summer or autumn as well as regional to global implications. https://www.youtube.com/live/rZvJPlPDyME
“The Indian Wells Valley groundwater basin is formally designated as critically over drafted. Current pumping is 20,840 acre-feet per year against the reported sustainable yield of only 7,650,” Slayton wrote in the letter. “A facility of this size, using evaporative cooling in desert conditions, can consume roughly 500,000 gallons of water per day close to 8 percent of the basin’s entire sustainable annual yield, used by a single facility every day.”
After this person posted a bunch of incoherent nonsense at me a week ago, they blocked me. Then added me to two angrily named lists. But the real sign of a truly obsessive hater: they came back a week later to add me to another angrily named list. If I block you, I forget about you by the next day