At the global onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wuhan, China, went into self-isolation, into quarantine, as did the rest of the area, and the infamous pollution that usually blankets the vast Chinese land began to dissipate. Roughly two weeks later, the rain we expected and awaited all winter around the Bay Area finally has begun […]
Tag: Earth
It Is a Pandemic
Not a pandemonium. This season of the COVID-19 pandemic, please, remember the Golden Rule.
How to be Vulnerable Without Being Harmful
Working on it. Meantime, while we all are united at last, most, if not all of us on Earth, in this COVID-19 moment, singin’ “Happy Birthday” to ourselves, twice, as we thoroughly wash our hands, let us do remember to turn off the water while we work on cleaning our hands, dreaming about cake we […]
#COVID19
Well ain’t this a kick in the ol’ pants, this virus that ups with the greatest of ease (thank you, global economy!) and goes all over Earth, killing earthlings from here, and there, anywhere, and almost everywhere without discrimination. COVID-19 goes to show ya and remind you that #weareallthesame on the face of the planet. […]
Sheriff
Sheriff is this older gentleman that we’ve witnessed live a quiet, mostly solitary life at Elm & Van Ness, near the San Francisco Cooking School, for five years now. Next to the old McDonald’s – that’s been his spot this past half decade, and who really knows how long he actually has been out there, […]
Drive Like You Care, #SanFrancisco
It is incredible, and unshakable, how a simple, yet thoroughly preventable traffic impasse can spiral out of control between two people too stubborn to let it go and too committed to keep it goin’, even when they find themselves heading in the same direction and keeping ridikolous pace with each other. And how it can […]
Live on, Lewis
Oh, Lewis the koala. We are going to run out of time and out of life before we run out of matches. Science – the factual chance based on two millennia of experience that we as humans have to try to understand the mysteries of Earth – posits that we (still?) can help reverse our […]
The Dirty Dick
A Dirty Dick is a brostastic (yeah…in his head) upwardly mobile-looking, decent-seeming dude, that tosses his hot cigarette butt on the (wooden – like, really?) temporary bus platform that has been set up in front of my front door, without a single care in the world. Not a one. Such is the Dirty Dick’s gall that […]
Call Me Pollyanna
And now, 15 annotations to this letter I put together and sent to that cunt Donald Trump through his campaign’s website a few days after Election Day 2016. I thought, at this juncture, I’d re-evaluate it, and share the extra flare I’d sprinkle on it now (once an editor…always an editor) – footnotes, for color, […]
Mind Yo’ Butts!
Butts, butts, butts everywhere. Look at this one, look at that one, and at that one. People. Smokers, I do mean smokers. Smokers. If you are lucky to get your hands on some butts, the least you can do is honor dem butts by properly dispensing with ’em butts when you are done with dem […]
King of Cups 