Provision run – the usual Trader Schmoe’s for O’boom, Grocery Cheaplet for $2.50/lb Tillamook Monterey Jack, Smart & Final for nothing (although I hoped fornon-sugar sweetened lemonade), Hodge’s’ for propane and Ka-Nob Hill for skirt steak.   At Hodge’s, I pull up to the propane loading station and Cletus, the yardman inspects my tank like […]

SOLSTICE – The chronic knee needs to be worked out.  It’s been a week since the last CRICCK and had a tentative 6-hill rike early in the week.  The muscles WANTED to the work, so much so that I actually broke into a lope up 6th Street. And so this morning’s effort was more toward […]

EXCITEMENTDAY – Or what passes here. Not only do I need to break up with my current squeeze, but I cannot even decide which of the three tasty daughters of John Barrymore I want to close the deal with.  John (who, I might note, likes me well enough not to charge me but also hints […]

SCHEDULEDAY – I have one – at the dentist at 2. And I had a busy morning: I’m in some village of Merry Olde with Eric Catchpole (of the BBC Lovejoy Series) where at noon they have a parade and sing America The Beautiful.  Touching.  Eric is busy with some young filly, “Eric, I’ll meet […]

DOOLITTLEDAY – Yes, I did little, but it was more of a case FOR Dr. Doolittle. It wasn’t the angora cat sitting in the middle of Hoffman Avenue as this is the upper, quiet end of the street.  It wasn’t even the six-point (furry) young buck eyeing me from the center of Terry Street (east […]

Episode – Whilst Slackington was here, prevailed upon The Professor to host us at The Trident. Deep within Neptune’s bowels, The Trident is a first class drinking establishment in the third incarnation (dating, mostly, it’s a complicated story, from 1926) of the Hotel Del Monte which the Navy purchased and moved from Annapolis the Naval […]

THEN – Sleeping better than ever, if you call Post-Apocalypse Mad Max Harvey and Georgia Incursions sleeping well.Brrrrrrr. Off in the impossibly clear morning on a provisioning run:The shearing west gales abated, for a moment. Trader Joe’s – O’boom plenteous Randy’s Sandwich – Jaws II available (six-man queue) Bay Automotive – Monday slot for cooling […]

ANYDAY – It’s a little known fact that Jimi Hendricks wrestled 120 for the Rovers, in 1972, even after he was dead. Solid takedown artist, good on legs, near-unstoppable chicken-wing. We’re 3 – 0 so far this season. Ex-Pope called, left a message, “How do you DO it?” I’m deluged with fortune seekers, mystics, Lottery […]

The midnight levitation was unexpected and you’d think more than merely endured.  Maybe it was the landing somewhere amid the city darkness to be feared.  Astride a lamppost?  Athwart freeway traffic?  No.  Calmly, silently upon a sidewalk and at once into Barnaby locked into reverse gear speeding along Santa Monica Boulevard.  Backward.  No brakes. By […]