About

We are about the Bay Area sometimes, but we use the term Bay Area expansively, wandering as far away as Tracy and overseas outposts. We like to think of ourselves as evolving. As new interests pop up or as old interests are rekindled, we may move in almost any direction. In our minds, a dynamic blog fits our temperament.

We like to talk about major and minor current happenings in politics, culture, and whatever, anything that srikes our interest at the moment.

We also like to chat about the way things used to be, stuff like the Key System, the Oakland-San Francisco Ferry, military bases that have long since disappeared, et cetera, et cetera. et cetera.

In general, our posts will follow these rough guidelines.

Grammar. Grammarians are the greatest threat to human civilization in the history of the world. They rank right up there with weed whackers. We give thanks to Word’s spelling tool, but its Grammar tool doesn’t quite get the speech of the common folk.

Eclecticism. With few exceptions, we love all sorts of topics. We don’t comment on technical stuff except in a general manner. We don’t know our buns from a hole in the ground when it comes to anything more challenging than an Easy crossword.

Moods. We comment according to our moods. When we feel happy, we post as if we were Mr. Rogers. If we are sad, we post sad. If we are angry, we can be scathing. When a mania stage comes over us, we post grandiose stuff.

Styles: Sometimes, we just recite a fact or two and let it go with a pithy observation. Cynicism permeates our posts along with humor. Humor may be reflected in brief vignettes that have no particular point or in non sequetors. Some matters aren’t funny at all. These are our top non-humorous topics.

• Spouse abuse
• Child abuse
• Suicide
• Murder

Purpose in Life
Encouraging people toward positive goals.

Me

I am a totally insignificant person in the grand scheme of life. I am completely devoid of influence and power. In fact, if you want to talk to someone with a little power, talk to me. I have as little as anyone in the U.S

I live on a mountaintop in Arizona overlooking the Colorado River where I perform the essential national security function of protecting our country from alien space invaders. Once a year, I descend the mountain in my trusty F150 for a Diet Coke foraging run to Vegas.

Writing Experience

• Reams and reams of bureaucratic bullshit
• Several weekly column for community newspapers
• Academic bullshit out the ears
• Close to 600 blog posts in a year’s time
• 30 to 50 yellow lined legal pads of hand written crap
• About four hard discs of unpublished essays, stories, and movie scripts, all universally lousy
• More 40-page graduate research papers than I want to think about ever again.

Comment Policy
We screen all comments before approving them for posting.

We will reject comments that are pesonal attacks on another blogger or any other private citizen. Attacks on politicians may be all right, but you need to be careful.

You are solely responsible for the content of your comment. Make sure your facts are straight.

We also screen for profane language and profanely descriptive phrases and sentences. A mild expletive may be okay.

If a comment looks to us like spam, we won’t post it.

If a comment looks to us like a part of an organized campaign of any kind, we won’t post it.

The final word on which comments to post or reject is solely ours.

Copyright
Everything in this site is copyright by me. Nothing in here may be used for any commercial purpose. Short exerpts are permissible for someone wishing innocent uses such as short quotes for legitimate discussion.  No one is authorized to insert advertising or political material into this site or in any site that purports to be this one. No material of a sexual nature whether for commercial purposes may be inserted in this site or in any site that purports to be this site.