Archive for July, 2008
Searching with Candles — A Rug Riff
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in San Francisco, Searching with Candles, Stories | No Comments »
[No politics today. Just a short short story, what the Japanese call a "palm-of-the-hand tale." Or a beginning.] Her eyes kept coming back to the pattern in the rug. It was a ... Read more..Noodling on the News — V Is for Versailles
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Environment, MediaWatch, Noodling, Politics, San Francisco, Stories | No Comments »
[As always, click on a thumbnail image to see it more clearly.] On the third planet from the sun, the following appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on July 13: The green ... Read more..A Frame for Mission Dolores
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Books, Politics, San Francisco, The Arts | 1 Comment »
I’ve been reading George Lakoff’s new book, The Political Mind. Lakoff set progressive politicians aback several years ago when he told published Don’t Think of an Elephant. He suggested then ... Read more..Wall-E’s Song
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Economics, Environment, MediaWatch, Movies, Politics, The Arts | No Comments »
(Warning: Contains a spoiler.) Once upon a time, in the not-too-distant future, the material world overwhelmed the physical world. In other words, there was so much garbage on earth that it ... Read more..The Gold Standard
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Politics, San Francisco | No Comments »
Friday is the Fourth of July. The day, in 1776, when thirteen little American colonies in completed a document announcing that they, are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, ... Read more..