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Thursday, April 10, 2025

"A Goofy Movie" (1995)

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There's an article in Slate about a new Disney+ documentary regarding the popularity of "A Goofy Movie" (1995) in the Black c...

Sensible, Predictable Economic Policy

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Good Day Sacramento - RCTC's "The Lightning Thief" - April 9, 2025

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There is Larry R., big as day, horsetail and all, as Chiron!  
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

A Wrap on the 2024-25 Rainy Season in Sacramento

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Well, that's pretty much a wrap on the 2024-25 rainy season in Sacramento. Currently we are about 83% of normal, but if no more rain fa...
Monday, April 07, 2025

Lady Gaga - "Killah"

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Heard this for the first time on the trip to Modesto. Reminds me of Prince. Great backup dancers!  

The Utter Silence of the Free Speech Warriors

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@pearlmania500 My top five air fryer recipes #food #chicken #potatoes #april #crabrangoon #falafel #mozzarellasticks #eggrolls #k...

Swiss Spaghetti Harvest of 1957

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Just fun stuff!

More Liberation

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"Hands Off" Protest at the California State Capitol - April 5, 2025.

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Sacramento proud!   I wasn't there very long.  It was more-important to make sure Rachel got to the protest - her first protest of this ...
Friday, April 04, 2025

Project Poinsettia Freedom

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I don't remember when I got the poinsettia for Christmas - four or five years ago?  Since then it has flourished to the extent possible ...
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Less Honkin! More Tonkin!

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Patti LuPone - "Songs From A Hat" - Mary Stuart Rogers Theater at the Gallo Center for the Arts, Modesto, CA - April 3, 2025

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OK, a quick drive to Modesto (marred by a traffic jam in Sacramento - that poor, unfortunate overturned car!) Then, running late and got a ...

Liberation Day

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So, midday Thursday in NYC, and the Dow is down more than 1,300 points. All hail Liberation!  More Liberation came.  Turn that pesky 401K in...

I Miss The Cretaceous

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Good times were had by all.

Shake It Off

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On Tuesday, I went to help manage afterschool Club M at the elementary school. I was sent to the room with the best bunch, the TK kindergart...

The Allure of Deserts

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There is an allure, a power, in walking through open deserts. I was reading about the mystery of David Stone’s 1988 disappearance , and sens...

Two Types

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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

All Is Quiet At The Border

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For now (behind a paywall for some):  But migrant crossings have slowed to a near halt, bringing a striking change to the landscape along t...

Lower The Temperature By Raising The Temperature

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Surprised by the blowback they received for agitating against everyone else, the NM GOP vows to lower the temperature by agitating yet more ...

Keep the Degenerates Flush

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A Memory From 2014

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Facebook Memories presents me with Laure Courtellemont, whose Ragga Jam brand of Jamaican Dancehall is always so interesting.  In 2014 in Sa...

An Important Climate Record

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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Powdered Paint

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This week, I worked two days as a substitute teaching assistant at the Montessori school, both times in-class, and not my usual gig in Club ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

No Sympathy For Nebraska

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Idiots: One of the biggest shocks (or, for the rest of us, the least surprising development of 2025) is that Nebraska’s farming economy is b...

Thank You For The Add!

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Degrading Our Ability To Forecast The Weather

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It's hard to overemphasize how destructive these balloon-launch cancellations are for our ability to model the weather and make weather ...

Halloween in March

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Late last night, Jasper and I traveled down a quiet street in Curtis Park, a very familiar stretch that we've traveled at least 2,000 ti...

I Think AOC Has The Inside Track For 2028.

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How to Mangle a Performing-Arts Venue

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At best, they’ll have the best-appointed community theater in the D.C. area. At worst, they’ll have to close: In a recording of the meetin...

"On Becoming a Guinea Fowl"

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I went to the Tower and saw this film, directed by Rungano Nyoni, and set in modern Zambia. Loved it! There's a notable Surrealist inf...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Nah, I'm Good

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Culmination of the Lunar Standstill Cycle

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The 18.6-year precession cycle of the Moon, as it orbits the Earth, will culminate soon, perhaps today (as of March 21st). Right now, the Mo...

Cybertruck

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Walking Jasper at 1 a.m. last night, I felt icicles. A black Tesla Cybertruck raced passed us, bright halogen headlights cutting through th...

The Moment Passed Before It Started

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Well, that was brutal. Less than a day after I became aware of a cat wanting to move onto my premises, he’s gone: hit by a car out on the st...

Drying Out

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One month left in the Sacramento rainy season. How are we doing? (as of March 18th) The Sacramento area is succumbing to the gravitational ...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Hopi Inspiration in “Better Call Saul”

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Links to 28 different "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" posts can be found on the sidebar of the Marc Valdez Weblog ...