Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Fire Flood Earthquake Fascists

Disaster seems likely to miss us today, the lemon yellow sky of yesterday is an ordinary gray, but the air still reeks of burning. And sorrow. In the shadows things are deep orange. In the open everything looks sort of normal, but where the light shines through the forest there’s a shocking glare of reflected flames from several miles away. Yesterday we had the get-out-of-Dodge backpacks, one for people and one for the animals, ready. Our neighbor pulled out their old mobile home caravan, parked it in front of our house for a bunch of us with animals to evacuate.
Gave Andrew the keys. Hahahahaaaa. Oh dear. 
Not everyone in the hood has a go-bag. I spoke to one elegant couple early yesterday who were watching the news in horror. I said: You needa make a bag up if you hafta evacuate. They said: Oh.My.Gawd. What do we pack?!
I looked around their lovely art-filled home and said: WATER, FOOD, CASH. ID. CHANGE OF CLOTHES, SHAMPOO. Oh yeah – coffee with a drip filter and chocolate.
It was the chocolate that motivated them to put a couple small bags together. Hey, whatever works.
ATTENTION FRIENDS Put a fuckin Time-to-Blow-Dodge-City bag together, keep it handy for the inevitable next time {earthquake fire flood fascists}. Make a plan for some anywhere-to-go; think about what you’ll do there, what you’ll need there. And hope beyond any hope there will be something to return to.
This fascist regime is fucking our lives up—it will not get better for a generation. We must survive and thrive in spite of the oppressors.
First – to survive. A short list: CASH. IDs, social sec card, credit card, eyeglass prescriptions. Write down contact phone numbers, cell phone, any insurance info, medical plan account numbers, food stamps, whatever.
Pack WATER (also water purifier tabs or water-straw), FOOD for people & animals, flashlights, matches/lighter, change of clothes, toothbrush/paste, liquid soap & shampoo. Quick cooking oatmeal, tea bags, instant coffee. Chocolate, ground coffee&drip filter. Cigarettes. Pot. Whatever will ease your heart.
MEDICAL SUPPLIES for people and animals: masks (halloween! or dust masks), pain pills, vitamin pills, happy pills, prescription pills [with prescribing info on the bottle], bandaids, Neosporin, bacitracin, cortisone ointment, saline solution, packets of clean-wipes, Benadryl, Rescue Remedy, blood-sponges/sterile pads, hydrogen peroxide, coban compression wrap. Nitrile gloves. Calendula oil (anti-bacterial), lavender oil (soothing), a head of garlic (besides vampire protection, it’s grand flavor, and antibiotic).
BASIC PET SUPPLIES: carriers, leashes, bowls. Large zip lock bags ready for as much animal food as you can carry – it gets lighter every day, you know.
Emergency tent/blanket, sleeping pad; sewing kit w/scissors. Work gloves, warm gloves, rain ponchos. P38 can opener. Safety pins. Vaseline (not merely protection but a fire-starter). Working flashlights. Glow sticks. Paracord (Samwise said: you can always use a bit of rope), bungie cord, carabiners. 
Have large zip lock bags ready for last minute supplies of rice, beans, lentils. Already have smaller ziplocks set up, one with savory herbs and one with cinnamon & brown sugar. A ziplock with salt. Tiny camp stove (alcohol burner, piezo, sterno) & small lidded pot. Spoons, sporks, compact bowls, survival/camp knife.
Charge cell phones, Kindles, I-pads etc. Bring the damn charger cords along. Camera? Invest in a battery or solar charger for all these?
Playing cards, tarot cards, dominos. Prepare a DnD campaign. Reveal the Wonderfilled Sekret Truth about Something Sekret & Fabulous. Learn some songs and poems. Know at least one song & the steps for the Dabke line dance.
You can get yet more butch with a bivvy, a good tent, fishin gear. Or learn to set snares, use a bow. MREs are bloody heavy but it’s something to consider. A bush saw or camp axe? Battery powered radio. Walkie-Talkies. A jerry can for water and a trekking filtration system (none of them will clear saltwater). Consider simply carrying a cheap brita filter.
The rough time is going to start when the fires are out: whole neighborhoods and forests are gone. Maybe trump will throw us some paper towels.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

GHOST STORIES! Andrew's book is available YAY

Andrew's book A GHOST OF A CHANCE is available at Amazon -
kindle $2.99 and paperback $11.99.

BUY IT! GIVE IT FIVE STARS REVIEW! it really helps alot
and it makes us feel better about the whole publish-yer-book thing.




Here's what Andrew says about his book:
We’re all born with some amount of luck. Once you’ve used it up, you better have a grasp on how the world works or you might as well be dead.

Except if you’re a ghost whore like Anthony. With the ability to see ghosts it didn’t take long for him to figure out that the spectral kind are no more than astral luck, feeding off the emotions of the living. With a little motel room romp or back alley action, Anthony gets them ghosts to give up their mind exploding wad of chance. Easy-peasy. 

Biggest problem with luck is it cannot directly influence the living, leaving Anthony with many acquaintances but few friends and no warm body to love.

Still he has himself the good life. His homes are the high roller suites in Vegas and the beaches of San Diego. His pleasures are his daily rituals and winning just enough to pay for his fashions, style and a nice night under the city lights. If only he could find a nice man his mother, Yema, would approve of.

When Anthony witnesses the murder of Victor Christian, a guy who hit on Anthony during a game of blackjack everything changed. One of Anthony’s acquaintances, Tickler (a down and out ghost seer), is implicated as an accomplice to the crime. 

Not used to counting on others Anthony wants to live his life his way but finds himself mixed up in the fates of both the dead and the living; from a magician to Christmas mayhem to the blues. With unexplainable guilt (most likely influenced by Yema), Anthony does what he can to help Tickler and hires Georgia Peach Garland, the eccentric legal savant. 

But it takes Anthony’s realization that his friends are more than just people to use and pass through his life like the ghosts he whores himself to. He will need all their help from his favorite roulette dealer to his informant of loose paying slots, to help Tickler and find Victor Christian’s murderer.

Why won’t these stupid ghosts just spill their luck and leave Anthony alone? 

 cool reviews:
Good,Wow. Noir. Ghost noir. Good noir. I'm not a noir aficionado but I was almost raised on it. This is really original. A bunch of fun twists, and a twisted sense of humor comes in handy.

 Best ghost story ever. This page turner set amongst the slots of Las Vegas and driven by luck.. And there is plenty of luck, but only one man knows how to claim it for his own.

and I say: It's so much fun! Buy it! Do it for the children...er ghosts.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017

our splendid dog POPPY is SEVEN! HAPPY EARTH DAY!

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY


she had swampy green eyes and was totally self-absorbed....


but even when she was awful awful awful -- she was the prettiest newfy girl ever!

and then she grew UP
and is the COOLEST DOG EVER --





and now she has another very handsome gentleman for a pal -


HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPPY!

BLESSINGS ON ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL!




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Saturday, April 15, 2017

edible art edible mysterious art hahaha


when yer feelin sad and doomy
                             make yerself something bloomy
 >>>burma shave<<<



        a box without hinges lock or lid
                                     a golden treasure inside is hid          
                                                       


** **eggses!** **
they look really cool at this stage
don't they




then we went all jackson pollock
lay a piece of paper over the tray
and hung it on the refrigerator





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taxes. bah.

bah taxes. the government is all fuckholes.
there's a tax protest today. meh.
well comrade i'm staying right here in the woods. 
because
i'm not a dedicated-body-to-show-up-and-be-counted kinda anarchist:
 -- are there gonna be snacks? nooooooo
 -- dancing grrls?  noooooooooo
 -- groovey bands? hey not even the oompah band? no?
 -- will there be a lotta Important People talking on the stage about shit we already know? yes yes oh boy!
um. no.

i gots this sign. in front of our lot where people can see it.
 the arabic is said: La yuhimm ayn ant min nahn su’ayda/su’ida kunt jarnah


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Friday, March 10, 2017

COME TO ME IS NOW ON KINDLE oooooooooOOOOooooo

It's kind of expensive. $12.99. like they think i'm important?
and in other news - got a one star review on EDGE CITY and LOW BITE. same guy. he hasn't found COME TO ME yet
but i suppose it's only a matter of time til he says: No. 
even though he's my biggest fan
if any of you are moved to counteract his one-star with clever five-stars 
i'd be grateful. 
and now for some photos from the edge
first rains this season:


then floods - same place:


then all the trees fell over:


all the bins in tia's studio fell over & got soaked & ruined:

and then it came back again



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Friday, March 3, 2017

A PONY FOR BARRY GIFFORD

This is a short story I wrote. I like it.
       At the 2016 NOIR CON, Lou Boxer's biennial celebration of Noir in Philadelphia,  Barry Gifford -- a Maestro of NOIR, (Wild At Heart), race tracker (Day at the Races) and all round good guy was honored. Lou puts out an anthology along with the Con so I wrote this story for Barry. Jim Nisbet, a fabulous bard and master of English language prose and poetry, also wrote a short for Barry in the anthology--a classic race track story. heh. 

I hope you enjoy this one.


A PONY FOR BARRY GIFFORD by sin soracco NOIR CON 2016

          Gina woke up on the floor, uncurled, groaned. She discovered she had a purple sock on her left foot. It was unfamiliar. Her right foot was bare, surprisingly clean. She wiggled her toes--it hurt all the way up to her hairline. She ran a self-check: Black cargo pants, keys in left pocket, passport in right side cargo pocket, sixteen dollars in the right pocket—all right! She didn’t know where that came from but hey.  A flattened pack of cigarettes in left cargo pocket. Lighter under her hip on the floor. She was wearing an orange sweatshirt with PUERTO RICO in tall lavender letters across the front. That was unexpected. She didn't own an orange sweatshirt.  
The floor was black and white lino-squares. She patted it, delicate probes, hand splayed out, a starfish questing for food across the vast ocean bottom. Her head boomed with ocean surf slamming against the steep cliffs of her brain.
Bleary, her eyes pinged black white black errgh. Her teeth were fuzzy. Holding herself up by sheer determination—the wall tended to collapse downward like sliding jello—she plunged forward into the unknown depths of where ever the hell she was.
She swayed back and forth in the middle of a kitchen. She had a vague recollection, something about puking. Food generally hid in kitchens. She wouldn’t miss eating. Where were her fuckin shoes, how could she leave without shoes and where would she go? Turning slowly toward the window—hey it’s still dark out—or was it dark again? Gina discovered a coffee mug, a small puddle of goop in the bottom. It sloshed as she picked it up. Ah, good.  
She slurped. The noise slammed her against the wallpaper, horrid yellow sunflowers seemed to give slightly as she made contact. Creepy asylum-bouncy walls. Placing the hand without the cup on her head she bolstered herself against wobbling reality.
Animal parts and rice and squishy beans congealed in a pan on the stove. Her stomach roiled with dismay. Vestiges of some savage rite. Had she flung these bits of false sustenance into that pan? Gah. She’d never seen that pan. Like the purple sock. The orange sweatshirt. Strange. She’d never been to Puerto Rico. She hoped like hell she wasn’t in Puerto Rico.
          Grief. That’s what this was. Sorrow unending, a huge sucking maw of sad.
How easy it was to get lost in momentary disconnection, lose the ability to perform on command. What was perhaps a temporary state becomes habitual? Instant pariah.
Gina thought maybe she should stop smoking. Someone told her that would make her a better person. She hadn't thought so, but hey she woke up not knowing where she was. Perhaps the root of the problem was cigarettes.
She fumbled a cigarette out of her pocket, lit it. Fuck better person. She liked to smoke. Maybe she would just not eat any processed food, in the sainthood game that should be as effective as not smoking. No white flour, no corn syrup. Whatever. Okay. She wouldn't eat. Because puking. Instead she'd drink copious amounts of booze. Smoke lots of cigarettes. Pot. And dope. Yeah. Bang all the drugs she could get her grubby hands on. Better person comin right up.
That probably entailed leaving the house.
If she found herself roaming the streets, one purple sock, somewhere in Puerto Rico—no tellin what might happen. First person smokin weed, she’d follow them, tracking the spliff, maybe try a snatch and grab. Well, she could ask first maybe. Did she speak enough Spanish? Of course she did. Anyone can ask for weed in any language. Chinese? Get her killed most likely. Chinese opium was good. That get her killed for sure. Skip China. Her lips pulled tight, head tipped to the side. Was she that far out there? Thinkin about a good score in China which would get her killed. Suicide might be an answer to a lot of questions but probably not to all of them.
Considering the angles morphed the whole into something glittering, geometrical in its complexity. Algebra demands finesse, elegance. All she was coming up with was climb out the window. See what Puerto Rico looked like from the fire escape. Scarper off. Into the wild. First she needed some painkillers.
She staggered down the hallway looking for a bathroom with a medicine cabinet maybe. The hall was lined with empty bookshelves on one side, on the other side, a greasy plaster wall had holes punched in it. Homey.
The first door on the left opened into a tiny room with a toilet. Sink. Empty cabinet. That was what happened when people removed themselves from all the common pleasures. Not even an aspirin. She pee'ed, wondering if there was a bed somewhere in the building. After kitchen-fail and bathroom-fail it seemed unlikely.
“Hey Gina! You up, chula?”
Frowning, Gina stepped into the bleak hallway. “Where the fuck am I?”
Rhea handed her a joint. She said, “Garcia's house. He back in jail, gave me the keys. Good place outta the storm.”
Gina took a long slow drag. Coughed. “Garcia? Su primo?” Her gaze was hooded, suspicious. “How I get here?” She gestured at the orange shirt. “Puerto Rico?”
Rhea smiled. “Pinche primo.” Shrugging, “You got thrownup on. You don remember? Creep was tryin ta feel me up, you tol im ta back da fuck off?”
“So he threw up on me?”
Rhea twirled her fingers in the air, “Well. Yeeeah.” She mimed a left-jab-anda-right-cross. “A little of that.”
Gina said, “Me? Or you? You the one likesa boxeo. I only do it when I. Well. When I think it's the only answer.” She put one arm around Rhea's shoulder, leaning a little. They trudged back to the kitchen, battle comrades. “Maybe. I remember being seriously pissed.”
“You been that a lot.”
“Ah crap, Ree. I'm just diggin through shit lately.” She shook her head. “I've gone mental. Nothin seem to matter much. Except, yunno, I gotta thank you for savin my ass.”
“Savin was mutual. Pendejo took me by surprise.”
“Hm. Okay. I'm glad I'm not in Puerto Rico. I only speak jailhouse Spanish and I suppose it'd be tough there.”
“You safe wit me. Hey, wanta come wit me to the gym?”
Rhea worked out several hours, every day. Every day. Gonna be somebody.
Gina said, “You fucking weirdo. No, I don't wanta go to no stinky gym. I don't intend any real insult to you, but it's too violent for my gentle soul.”
Rhea nodded. “Gentle soul. Right. Who you tryna kid?”
“Me. Me, I guess.” Gina said, “I got existential angst. How you say that in Spanish, eh?”
“Ca-bro-naaaa. Maybe tha's how?” Rhea tossed the frying pan into the sink. “I dunno. What's it mean?”
“Pissy.”
“Oh.”
“Ennyway. I was thinkin I'm not doin nothin. So why I keep goin forward?”
“Goin back's no good, Gina.” Rhea went over to the window, stared out at the dreary dawn sky. “I got a idea.”
“Oh now I'm afraid.”
“No no. You like this. You just killin time, diggin through shit, right? There gotta be a pony in there somewhere, right?”
Gina put her finger in her ear, wiggled it a little. “Say what?”
Rhea found Gina's shoes, tossed them to her. “Le's go. I got Garcia's car.”
          “Where we go? I tol you I don't wanta go to your gym.”
“Get the shoes on, chica. Place is jus a little ways over in the East Bay.”

Gina's eyes were wide open as the horses went thundering around the curve. Six furlongs. Claiming race. Three year olds. Her world shook, narrowing to hooves snapping too fast to see, dirt flying, huge horse bodies flying. Tiny in the distance, the jockeys were bright daubs of paint careening together with their mounts, one gray horse pulling ahead. And ahead.
Gina was standing up on tip toe, gripping the railing in front of her, shifting her shoulders left and right, pushing forward, “Go! Go! Go you mutha fucka! Gooooooo!”
The corners of Rhea's mouth were tucked in, pleased. Her dimples flashed. “That your horse, Gina?”
Gina panted, “How the hell I know? It was just such a magnificent thing!” She turned to Rhea, flaming with desire. “These horses for sale? Claimers? Like anyone could simply up and claim one?” She waved her arm recklessly at the finish line. “For their own?”
Rhea rolled her eyes. “Noooo. Gotta have a license.”
“I bet I could get someone make me uppa license,” Gina tipped her head, “you know. Like my ID card. It's not real but it works fine.”
“You got a coupla acres? All smooth so the stupid horse don't catch his foot inna hole? You ever ridden a horse? What the hell, Gina.”
“Oh. Well. I don't have none a that.” Gina thought how she might put all of it together. “I rode a pony once. At a fair or somethin. Was nice.”
“Le's get another beer. Be a while before the next race.”
“Them horses all for sale too?”
“Yeah. It’s another claiming race. You gotta have cash. And a horse trailer pick em up after the race. I didn't bring my trailer.” Rhea was intent on the beers. “Beer here is piss but that’s what we got. Don't get a hot dog. Kill ya quicker'n speed.”
“You gotta trailer?”
“No. Lissen, ya dingbat. I don hava trailer. I don have no land. I don know how ta keep em or clean em or feed em or ride em. I jus like to watch em run. Jeez.”
“I'm thinkin. I'm thinkin.” Gina took a slug of beer. “The seventh race, Golden Nugget Stakes? Got a girl horse with a girl jockey.”
Rhea said, “You gonna buy a horse you needa know some lingo. Girl horse is a filly. Girl jockey is a jockey same as the men ones. Golden Nugget Stakes is the main race today. Stakes race is big money. Algenon's the favorite.”
“I'm gonna bet my wad on the filly. Code Warrior.”
“Win, place or show?”
“To win. Is Code Warrior for sale?”
“Nope. They maybe thought about sellin her but the girl jockey ridin her is the one picked her out at auction last year. Won't let em sell her.”
“Oh yeah? That's kinda sweet.”
“No sentiment in horse racin. It's about money. Horse lookin good right now. They sell her inna hot minute if she falters.”
Gina looked vaguely horrified. “These wonderful creatures are just cash cows?”
Rhea shrugged, walked back to the rail. “A rich man's game to own one.” She watched the end of the race, checked her ticket, dimples appeared. “Poor girl wins with the rich bastid’s horse.”  She hiked up the steps to the pay out. “Forty dollars. Holy cash cow. Yes! I rock.”
           Gina walked with her. “I wanta see how this is done. I expectin to collect on the—um, lemme see. Right. Six horse in the seventh.”
Rhea said, “Don’t be sayin that out loud. People hear you not bettin on the favorite, they bet with you, odds change.” She quirked a shoulder at the people standing around. “Your take is less.”
“That’s my life. That right there. I make a play for something and instantly the odds slide into the toilet.” Gina scowled at everyone, whispered, “Look like alotta these folks is crim’nals.” She cut her eyes to a man in a ball cap, black turtle neck, big silver cross and khakis. She didn’t like the way he looked at Rhea.
Rhea lifted her chin, saying, “Yeah. We're somehow different?”
Gina didn't answer.
The air smelled spicy, of horses and aftershave. Of thundering dreams and smashed hearts. The bugle guy did his thing, the snazzy preamble to the next race. The horses danced toward the gates. Gina breathed slow, floating somewhere above her body, observing the man hunched over the racing form ticking numbers off, making notes with stubby pencil. Looking at Rhea.
Some of the men wore sport coats, pricey rings on their little fingers, smoked cigars. Had curvetting ladies by their sides. Professional women so sleek and well kept, but skittish, same as the horses.
Proud heads tilted, rushing reaching graceful grabbing, shy glancing: LOOK AT ME. Fabulous. Women. Horses. Full time job to keep a woman like that.
“Maybe horses are easier than whores?”
“I suspect they bout the same. At least these ones. Finicky. Yunno.”
“Mm.” Gina stood as tall as she could, glaring around, watching the pretty women move. Watching the man watch Rhea.
Rhea collected her money, shoved it into the pocket of her too tight jeans. She said, “The things I do for fashion.” Her butt wiggled left and right.
“Hey now hey now pretty lady.” The voice was a whisper on the breeze. “The tamale won beeg. I show her a good time.” The ball cap man slipped between them, his broad back a wall in front of Gina, his arms reaching to hug Rhea.
“Muthafucka.” Gina slammed her shoulder into his kidney. “Get the fuck away!”
Apparently the man hadn’t expected the stubby little woman to hit him, he turned, mouth gaping. He stumbled, clutching at Rhea. Her fist jabbed sharply at his eye. Connecting with a satisfying bop.
He growled, “She hit me! The fuckin spic hit me!”
Gina crouched down behind his knees, covering her head. Rhea lifted her open hands, shuffled her feet—an Ali shuffle! The man looked down just like he was supposed to do. Rhea palmed his forehead flipping him back. It was a delicate precise gesture.
The man tumbled over Gina, smacked his head as he fish flopped onto the cement.
Gina stood up. “Fuckin creepy bastid.”
The two of them quick-stepped into the crowd, two streaks disappearing into the distance. Gina muttered out the side of her mouth, “Can’t take you anywhere.”
When they got to the car Gina said, “Maybe you should wear a bag over your head in public? No wait. A big garbage sack over all of you.”
Rhea waved her hand down the length of her body. “Hide this? Not happenin.”
“Uh.” Gina was grinning. “You know what? Today started out crap then it went all pageantry with cigars and fancy women. Movin slow slow slow and elegant. Horses high step prancing …. The gates open! Everything tilts.” Gina stared up at the sky, “Nothin as important as that moment. Can’t breathe. Then it’s over.” She did a four step Michael Jackson moon walk. “You ain’t the only one can dance.” Slipping sideways, fists pumping, Gina performed a tiny spin.
Rhea nodded, her dimples came and went. “Not gonna buy no horse, okay?”
“Not right now.”  Side eye. “Ain’t got no fuckin money.”
“Well, yeah. But we work good together, huh?”
Gina gave her the long stare, up and down. “I don’t want to be the one getting puked on or crouchin behind some asshole every time. Maybe I wanta get some shots in. I just don’t wanta spend hours at your stupid gym in order to do it.”
“I can deal wit that.” Rhea lit a joint, handed  it to her with a flourish. “Here ya go.”
“Right.” She took a hit, held it in. Pointing at the race course entrance, keeping the smoke in her lungs, she sort of squeaked around the smoke, “Here I go.” She frowned. “Rhea? Where am I goin? Tell me again?”
“How about right now I treat ya to a fancy dinner with my vast winnins?”
Gina exhaled. “Been a long time since I hadda fancy dinner.”  Shrugging, still frowning, she got in Garcia’s car.
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Monday, January 30, 2017

WITCH! Santa Rosa Wimmens March



An old WITCH at the Santa Rosa Wimmen's March January 21, 2017.

The WITCH is one of the tyrant's nightmares.
These tyrants are afraid of so much --
but the WITCH is truly scary: Female, with a source of power the tyrant doesn't understand.
Honorable, kind, courageous. A wicked sense of humor.
Bold
And bloody.
There's always blood.

WITCH WITCH WITCH WITCH

The tyrant said: it's midnight in the country.
MIDNIGHT IS OUR HOUR.
we do some of our finest work in dark times.

The tyrant said: scary things are out there. 

Some of the scary things are us.

Hey Tyrant - Hey Fuckhead - Lissen up: You Can't Survive Us.

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Monday, June 27, 2016

MONDAY JUNE 27

and then you know what happent?

 the first parties for the "launch" (it's not really a boat) are gonna happen! 

 THE FABULOUS GREEN ARCADE! JULY 13TH WEDNESDAY AT SEVEN!
BOOZE BABES COME TO ME BOOK AND FORTUNE TELLERS!
and magic party favors if i get them done.
we'll be doing a sekret blessing beforehand too. pomba gira at all the corners.
come on over to the green arcade on market, cross street gough.

 tia and i went to the local dive bar LUCY'S in Monte Rio last night. good times.
it's right there on highway 116 West: 20391-highway 116 West, on the right side across from the Rio Theater.
lucy's lounge is our perfect local dive bar with a pretty patio out back.
john is the great & grand bartender on sunday nights. cheerful smart and smooth. 
we gonna have a party there too. come on up to the river!

LUCY'S! JULY 31 SUNDAY NIGHT AT EIGHT!
BOOZE BABES COME TO ME BOOK FORTUNE TELLERS AND PIE!

 Please come along if you can.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

***** BOOK PARTY COMIN UP!

BOOK LAUNCH IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING 

 JULY 13 WEDNESDAY 7 PM at THE GREEN ARCADE BOOKSTORE
                                NO LIE
1680 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102 - cross street Gough.

If you can't be there you can order a copy directly from the store - 415-431-6800
Please come to the party if you can.

 Later in July there will be a party at LUCY'S LOUNGE in weird old Monte Rio on a SUNDAY NIGHT
because that's when John is bartender and the owner said we can do it there after the sports shows on teevee.
yeah.
LUCY'S LOUNGE  20391 CA-116, Monte Rio, CA 95462
It's to the right on 116 -- you'll see the MONTE RIO VACATION WONDERLAND SIGN over the left-hand road to the bridge by the Rio Theater. But stay on 116 for Lucy's. 

 You know... all the Bohemian Grove Republicans come up in July. 2000 acres up on the ridge are filled with rude and nude creepy politicians and some rather sweet musicians. Last year all the wild animals left and came down into town all big eyed and worried: Monsterz! There's Monsterz in the woods! Aaaugh Save Us!
So we have to figure out if we wanta wait til the politicos are gone or Do It Anyway and make fun of them if they wander into the bar.

 HEY! I got a my First Formal Review today from someone who bought the book at the GREEN ARCADE:

                    SO FAR Tiramisu!  Sweet and dense and heavy!  Axe! La roye! - the jude

                                       









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Monday, June 6, 2016

MONDAY JUNE 6 THERE IS A COPY OF COME2ME AT MY HOUSE

It is a handsome book - yes yes yes
:

the critics are pleased:




all three of gent's covers - way cool:
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Monday, May 30, 2016

U.S.A. ! U.S.A. ! USA FUCKYEAH memorial day 2016

country joe and the fish etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7-ngmO_p8

from country joe's home page:

50th
ANNIVERSARIES OF 2016

January 3: First Acid Test at the Fillmore
March 4: Lava Lamp patent filed
March 15: Watts Riots
April 1: First Peet's Coffee opens in Berkeley
June 13: Miranda decision
June 30: National Organization of Women founded
August 22: United Farm Workers founded
September 8: Star Trek premieres on TV
October 15: Black Panther Party founded
December 15: Death of Walt Disney
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

SPRING? Tuesday May 17, 2016



This was my view this morning when I stood on our front porch. 
Thinking/Not thinking. Smelling the morning. 
Green. Roses. And coffee. The river is close but too far for me to catch the scent. Crows flip around over head, creatures rattle in the underbrush --
Spring!

 The sign on our gate says DON'T PISS OFF THE FAIRIES ~

 Maybe that's the simplest way for me to go-about-doing-things.

 Mixing it up with people -- it always gets complicated. Most days it's Politics. That covers a lot of ground, after all, we live in occupied territory. Not as clearly occupied as Palestine, yet we are condemned to living in a system where we cannot win. Generations of losing to people who are just richer than most of us. It's engraved in the culture itself.  

 Certainly some decrees benefit those of us who have few perks, or none at all. Marriage equality was a nice gesture. Of course it's wonderful for people to get married if that's what they want to do. Duh. But it is really just a nice gesture--like Roe, like Miranda, like Brown vs Board of Education, 17th amendment/Voting Rights 1965. Like Treaties. Gestures. 

 Noblesse oblige. 

 As long as it's convenient and doesn't upset the flow of money and power, the nobility will be generous. They demand fealty however as they extend the perfumed hand.

 That hand has been clenched into a fist for a very long time. It's cleverly disguised by cultural assertions but really it is filthy with crazy ass greed. 

This Spring is the beginning once again of that periodic ritual of obedience -- ELECTIONS. Creepy passion is whipping the "citizens" into a frenzy over the potential devastation or triumph which will CHANGE EVERYTHING:The Election of Our Lifetimes? THE CHOICE!

 Oh hell -- that ship sailed a long time ago.


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