Everyone Is Connected
Humboldt’s first Project Homeless Connect is one big, warm, practical embrace
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Everyone Is Connected
Of all the luck John Haley has pushed away his breakfast plate, forked clean of its quiche, hash browns and biscuits. Billie Jo sits next to him, antsy. She keeps looking across the noisy, warm dining room inside Christ Church Episcopal at a doorway that leads to another hall from which an even louder hubbub…
Cut those — achoo! — redwoods down!
Now, all you have to do, Charles, is walk on in there — yep, right into those big boys — and sneeze.
Post-Election Interviews
This morning our Japhet Weeks conducted brief telephone interviews with each of the candidates in yesterday’s Bay District* elections. Here they are: Pat Higgins: audio player AudioPlayer.embed(“higgins”, {soundFile: “http://s3.amazonaws.com/NCJ_media_files/higgins.mp3”}); Charles Ollivier: audio player AudioPlayer.embed(“ollivier”, {soundFile: “http://s3.amazonaws.com/NCJ_media_files/ollivier.mp3”}); Roy Curless: audio player AudioPlayer.embed(“curless”, {soundFile: “http://s3.amazonaws.com/NCJ_media_files/curless.mp3”}); Carlos Quilez: audio player AudioPlayer.embed(“quilez”, {soundFile: “http://s3.amazonaws.com/NCJ_media_files/quilez.mp3”}); Steven Morris: audio player AudioPlayer.embed(“morris”,…
RIP Hobart (details on memorial “Celebration of Life”)
Hobart Brown, Glorious Founder of the Kinetic Sculpture race , died of pneumonia last night at Redwood Memorial Hospital. He was 73. UPDATE: Here’s a beautifully written, three-page press release from Kinetic Universe , the organization that put on the race last year. Hobart Brown was born in Hess, Oklahoma to a fifteen-year-old mother who…
Harbor District Results
With 2/3 of the precincts reporting in the Fifth Division, challenger Pat Higgins is way out in front of incumbent Charles Ollivier: PATRICK HIGGINS 1393 60.70% CHARLES L. OLLIVIER 902 39.30% It’s a bit closer down in the Second Division, but incumbent Roy Curless has a pretty commanding lead with 40 percent of…
Elections SNAFU
Absentee results from today’s election have yet to be posted to the county’s website. I just gave a ring to the office. They say they’re working on it. I hope they’re not using Yahoo Pipes.
Ceci n’est pas une Pipe
Last time it was Wordpress. This time it’s the Blogspot blogs borking the Pipe. Blogspot blogs are sidelined for the time being. Readers of a technical bent can follow the thrilling progress of the ticket here. UPDATE: Much love to wizard Piper Greg H for the workaround.
Citizen Media Revolution
Love ’em or loathe ’em — and we don’t know anybody who actually loathes them, per se — there’s something undeniably inspiring about the folks at Green Wheels . These fresh-faced alternative transportation activists have exploded on the scene in the last few months, making themselves ubiquitous in every countywide discussion that even remotely touches…
Jive-Ass Ripoffs
Should be much love flowing from SoHum to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office today, as deputies foil some truly dangerous-sounding hombres from L.A. Palm Springs: Yesterday at about noon Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies were on patrol on Briceland Road near Redway. They saw a vehicle stopped at the side of the road with two people…
100 Watts of Goodwill
Sunday morning with an Indian Summer headcold. Feels like one has been very lightly novocained from the neck up. Times like this, nothing beats sitting around with a cup of VapoRub tea, shades drawn down, stereo tuned to Caltrans Radio KMKE, 98.1 FM. There’s something about blasting “The Mike,” as they don’t call it, that…
All Night Long
Reminder to candidates and their teams: If you’re going to be throwing an election party this Tuesday night, don’t skimp on the hors d’oeuvres and book your hall late. With one notable exception, the county in recent years has gotten used to getting its final election results by 10 p.m. or so. No more. In…
Why Does the Setting Sun Flash Green?
If you watch the red sun just before it disappears below the sea’s horizon you may see a flash of green. Gene Callahan, a local builder of fine homes, tells me that a red road flare will turn green if stared at long enough. These phenomena are actually quite different. Gene’s green is a result…
Through the Looking Glass
Vigorously waving the white flag high over my head last Thursday afternoon, I stepped slowly toward the Scotia headquarters of the Pacific Lumber Co., scanning nearby rooftops for snipers. Every nine paces I unholstered my can of Silly String and sprayed the sidewalk ahead of me, scanning for invisible trip wires. All clear. Only when…
Too Much Freedom
Czech prog/punk avant-rock band Uz Jsme Doma is making its way across the U.S. The day I caught up with the band’s keyboard player/songwriter and only remaining original member, Miroslav Wanek (Mirek for short), UJD had just played at an elementary school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “It was a last-minute substitution,” he explained, the indirect…
Spooky Bugs
There has been a lot of bug action at my house lately. On warm nights, the chorus of crickets from the front yard is loud enough to get a little embarrassing. If I go outside and walk up and down the street, it becomes obvious that the entire cricket scene is happening at my house…
Road to Bluff Creek
“Roger and Bob rode out that day / Their lives changed in every way/So did ours ’cause we got to see/A living Bigfoot, walking tall and free ,” sang Tom Yamarone, belting out the verses of one of his Bigfoot folk-historical ballads. Yamarone’s lyrics rang true inside the Willow Creek VFW Hall a couple of…
Ask an Expert
For 10 years, a close friend of mine in Austin talked to a shrink once a week via long-distance telephone to New York. She didn’t trust her sanity to any psychologist in Texas. Sometimes you need an outside perspective to help you understand your own problems. When journalists need to understand a complicated problem they…
Limited Indeed
Previews I suppose the major opening on Friday, Nov. 2 is American Gangster , a film based on a true story and directed by Ridley Scott in a return to the action film genre. Starring heavyweights Denzel Washington as a Harlem drug king and Russell Crowe as the cop determined to take him down, the…
Sparrows On Barbed Wire
them vacant eyes stare right through us an’…
Food for Blogs
In July of 2006, the Pew Internet & American Life Project published the results of a survey of US bloggers. According to the report, about 12 million American adults keep a blog. More than a year later, I am sure the number is higher, at least by one. Before the idea of joining the food…
Wooden Shjips
CD by Wooden Shjips. Holy Mountain Records. Psychedelic rock has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity over the past few years, and we here in California have been lucky to witness such homegrown talent as Comets on Fire, Citay and Six Organs of Admittance as they have nursed the scene from its humble beginnings to its…
Snoop Dogg
In concert Thursday, Oct. 25., 2007 At the Eureka Muni. I was convinced that the Snoop show, which went down Oct. 25 at the Eureka Municipal Auditorium, would be a total sausage fest (mostly dudes I mean). I thought said sausages would shed tears and scream and jump up and down excitedly, kind of like…
Retina Riddim
CD by Gang Gang Dance. The Social Registry Commenting on MTV in the early ’80s, the critic Greil Marcus famously claimed that the music video was an art form that was “born dead.” Marcus may have been a bit harsh, but the music video as we know it in pop culture is a medium that,…
