Ocean Beach has a colony of parrots, originally from northeast Mexico, who have decided to kick back and enjoy the Bohemian vibe and counterculture traditions of OB. I love these birds and how colorful and loud they are. When they finally showed up, I called Alexis on her cell phone. As a result of a [...]
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Monday, February 22, 2010
You can gain more insight into the modern world by staring at a slab of sidewalk in Ocean Beach than you can from watching dozens of hours of television. Got it? You’re all individuals!
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Winter sunsets at southern California beaches often are a lot more impressive than the ones that take place during the summer. They happen a couple of hours earlier, too. This is what it looked like at Ocean Beach at about 5:35 PM.
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…at the beach. Stormy weather suits me fine, so long as I remain above the flood line!
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
OK, I admit it. I don’t like the holiday season very much. I’m also not highly impressed with modern California suburbia. At the same time, maintaining a humbug attitude is neither healthy nor considerate to others.
These bright orange seeds are as sticky as they are shiny. I don’t associate the last few days of fall [...]
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I’m not sure what it is, but I like the colors and I’m impressed to be seeing a magnificent creature like this one outdoors on a cold late-fall afternoon. Incidentally, I asked it about current political issues of the day but it did not reply.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Here’s a nice action shot from October 1972, before I decided to embrace nonviolence.
We’re all quite aware of the fact that the US Corporate Media are adept at covering up bad news they don’t want us to be alarmed about – so it comes as no surprise that the Zombie Uprising that took place in [...]
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Here’s a nice shot of my paternal grandmother and a kitten. It was taken in Scotland in about 1898. For no extra charge, here’s a similar shot of me, taken in Hollywood in 1965.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Rainbow, where are your ears?
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Who said the California Dream was over? Today my cell phone jumped out of my pocket and started issuing demands. The first was that I hold it up high and push the correct series of buttons in just the right way. The result was the image you see before you, which was the view tonight [...]
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To Celebrate America, let’s meditate on the words of James Madison, our fourth President and Father of the US Constitution:
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; [...]
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Carmel Valley is in North County San Diego. Mostly it is a horrid plastic suburb, but there are enough open spaces left to allow air balloons to thrive. I love watching them. See the fire? You’d be surprised how loud it is.
Do you want to ride in a balloon? That’s great. Not me. They’re beautiful [...]
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