America’s natural disaster problem
Obstacles large and small block progress. Agreement is never simple or easy. Capitalism, corporations and legacy carbon-based industries are resisting.
Read More America’s natural disaster problemSaving Ourselves—
Scale the business— and there is no bigger business than home ownership. That is not true of course but there is a kernel of reality attached to the single best way for an ordinary homeowner to build wealth. Obstacles in the way include rising insurance premiums, higher mortgage rates, shortage of properties which feeds into […]
Read More Saving Ourselves—California Climate Migration
It’s on— millions of leafy-lane owning California homeowners are looking around their neighborhoods this morning and many do not like what they see. I am a climate-change-denying- it can’t happen here- Northern California homeowner. I was until Wednesday. The massive wildfires in Los Angeles can’t happen up here. We still get rain, our Diablo’s ( […]
Read More California Climate MigrationHollywood Hills Wildfire
Hollywood Hills fire threatens the Sunset Strip. Four friends have fled LA. Two went south to Ensenada, two to Palm Springs where I have arrived for the week. The friends here both grew up in LA, they know every inch of the place, every mood, every era, every nook and cranny. Robbie said he has […]
Read More Hollywood Hills WildfirePacific Palisades Conflagration
Wildfire has struck Los Angeles again. Squeezed between Malibu to the north and Santa Monica to the south is the Pacific Palisades. Years ago, I spent time in nearby Brentwood. My hosts had searched for some years and when this hillside home came on the market, they packed up their house in Belair for proximity […]
Read More Pacific Palisades ConflagrationI’m Still Here
First film of the Palm Springs Film Festival— I’m Still Here. Fernanda Torres received Best Actress Award at Golden Globes this week and her director Walter Salles both from Brazil were on stage after the screening to discuss. This an ambitious film dealing with Brazil’s dictatorship arresting and murdering Torres husband. Film set in 1971 […]
Read More I’m Still HereArctic circle squared—
You drive from Vancouver north to Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal. You’ll jump across the Strait of Georgia to Vancouver Island then more north by van some hundreds of miles to Port Hardy where you will board another ferry for the 18-hour passage further north to Prince Rupert. By all accounts the Inside Passage transits some […]
Read More Arctic circle squared—Raining bossa pouring nova
Woven tight into the current script is music, it arrives unexpectedly as a bossa nova band becomes enchanted with their first visit to Big Sur. Like anyone alive on the face of planet earth bossa nova is born in Antonio Carlos Jobim’s The Girl from Ipanema, the all-time most popular bossa song ever written. The 1963 smash […]
Read More Raining bossa pouring novaThe Moral Minority
—the nation has been shattered and the rich fucks might as well grab their billions in spoils before the low brow looters show up to grab their new TV’s.
Read More The Moral MinorityRoll of the Nation’s Dice—
Democrats are proposing we do something about day care, climate, home ownership and help small businesses get off the ground. These policy proposals have the Republican Party ready to man the barricades.
Read More Roll of the Nation’s Dice—