today
9 a.m. International Education Week Humboldt State University
read >noon Redwood Region Audubon Society Meeting Golden Harvest Cafe
read >noon Dreamscapes The Oasis
read >4:30 p.m. HomeWork Hotline Call for details
read >5 p.m. Guitar Jazz Cafe Brio
read >5 p.m. Henderson Center Holiday Open House Henderson Center
read >6 p.m. Americans for Safe Access Bayview Courtyard Complex
read >6 p.m. Matthew Cook Cher-Ae-Heights Casino
read >6 p.m. Bill McBride and Friends Hotel Ivanhoe
read >6 p.m. Kindred Spirits Mad River Brewing Company
read >6 p.m. Watershed Restoration Week Celebration Wharfinger Building
read >6:30 p.m. Seabury Gould at Gallagher's Gallagher's
read >6:30 p.m. Share a Story: Growing Vegetable Soup Arcata Library
read >6:30 p.m. 2008 Transgender Day of Remebrance Humboldt County Courthouse
read >7 p.m. Blue Grass Jam Old Town Coffee & Chocolates
read >7 p.m. Mr. Calamari's Jazz Machine Mosgo's
read >7 p.m. All Ages Open Mic East Side Deli
read >7 p.m. Don's Neighbors Gilded Rose
read >7 p.m. KEET-TV's Annual Holiday Auction See Event Description
read >8 p.m. Karaoke WAVE @ blue lake casino
read >8 p.m. Karaoke at Bear River Casino Bear River Casino
read >8 p.m. Smuin Ballet: The Christmas Ballet Van Duzer Theater at HSU
read >8 p.m. Getting It Arcata Playhouse
read >8 p.m. She Loves Me North Coast Repertory Theater
read >8 p.m. The Medium Gist Hall Theater at HSU
read >8:30 p.m. Keak da Sneak, San Quinn Mazzotti's Arcata
read >9 p.m. Soldiers of Shangri-la Six Rivers Brewery
read >9 p.m. Dancehall/Reggae Thursday with Rude Lion Sound DJ Jimmy Jonz The Red Fox Tavern
read >9 p.m. Scotch Wiggly The Boiler Room
read >9 p.m. The Common Vice, Silent Giants, Rooster McClintock Humboldt Brews
read >9 p.m. Hillstomp, O'Death Jambalaya
read >9:30 p.m. DJ Ray Ragg's Rack Room
read >10 p.m. Music by DJ Sidelines
read >10 p.m. Lightnin' Bill Woodcock Pearl Lounge
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Letter to Sasquatch
By John J. Brugaletta
You might not readily accept advice
from one of us, the little predators,
but I will offer it in case it helps:
Keep to cover; stay in the shadows;
do not allow your young to greet us
in their naiveté. Not only may you
see them shot, or bound in ignominy,
you'll also share then our infection with
an urge for constant and useless change,
our gift for raising the standard for belief
when a belief is inconvenient for us,
an appetite for gratuitous excitement,
and end, as we have, by worshiping
the powerful as models for ourselves.
No doubt you are already deceitful
in ways that we would think charming,
but there's no need to soil your life
beyond your few modest mistakes.
For my part, I will say I disbelieve
in your existence, perhaps persuading
a few more hunters to stay at home
watching nonsense on television.
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