Humboldt Depression
The 1930s were worse. Things are pretty bad now. But there’s always chickens, berries and the family jewels.
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Humboldt Depression
Clomp clomp clomp clomp. I look around guiltily. It’s one of those warm, half-sunny weekend days about to turn gray and wet, and lots of people are outside in my Eureka neighborhood, walking dogs and playing tennis or just sitting on the porch drinking in air soaked with the scent of plum tree blossoms. My…
The Blogwatch URL
species. The old Yahoo Pipes Humboldt Blogwatch feed has been deprecated for a while now, but I only got around to deleting it yesterday. Take note, angry blogwatchers — you want to update your feeds to point to this URL. UPDATE: If you’re having trouble migrating, we have assembled a helpful HOWTO aimed at the…
Pundit Taxonomy
Pundit Taxonomy: Sort of a brief Sibley Guide to the
Trimmer or watering can?
Ha ha, you thought it was a pot story. Tsk tsk, HSU’s prez would NOT approve. And probably would note that we media seem to think we need the leaf to get you all to read. Anyway, the news: HSU Provost Bob Snyder has issued his recommendations on which university programs should be cut and…
Reggae news
This came in to the Journal news dept. today: Bruno and Dimmick Announce Agreement Carol Bruno of People Productions LLC and the Dimmick Ranch have reached a mutually agreeable arrangement to transfer the principle assets and liabilities of the Reggae Rising Music Festival to the Dimmick Ranch. While no longer involved with Reggae Rising, Carol…
Praise Cap
I have received a testimony, and now I’m-a gonna pass it on to you. Say what you will about Capdiamont’s politics or grammar, but let me tell you — the dude knows his way around wires. The Journal’s fax machine and Internet lines were down this morning, and the trouble was clearly somewhere in the…
Explosion
. A house blew up in Eureka at 7:10 a.m., killing one resident. This was at the corner of Allard and Glen, near the trailer park in Bayview/Pine Hill. From the Eureka Fire Department: The initial arriving EFD fire engine found the residence involved in fire, the street in front of the house littered with…
HSU: Somewhat Less White Than Before
package.HSU: Somewhat Less White Than Before: Sonoma State University Peter Phillips has compared his school’s diversity to other CSU and UC campuses, and has found the HSU now beats both Sonoma and Chico on that front. Humboldt State was 83 percent Caucasian in 1994; now it’s 73 percent. Get the full study here (.doc)
PSA: When Mailing Weed
PSA: When Mailing Weed: … don’t put your actual return address on the
Pot Merch In The Middle
A Morro Bay pot dispensary owner, busted by U.S. drug agents before the feds went soft under new A.G. Eric Holder, will be sentenced tomorrow. What, he wonders, will be his fate?
All God’s Creatures
Meggan Anderson and the window-hurt pigeon The PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — activists who staged a noontime protest today on the F Street Plaza in Eureka arrived with friendly optimism plus a pile of fake green ivy, a curvy near-naked woman painted like a snake and a quiet leaflet-and-sign plea…
Still Life
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When It Rains
When It Rains: Humboldt Creamery has issued a recall for one of its ice cream confection products, citing possible salmonella contamination. (H/t Twumboldt
Thompson on the AIG Bonuses
In non-naked news, Rep. Mike Thompson spoke with Bloomberg yesterday about Congress’ AIG spank.
Naked PETA Beauty in EKA!
Naked PETA Beauty in EKA! : There’s still time! Noon at the corner of 2nd and F! “I’ll gladly bare some of my skin if it will help save animals’ skins,” says PETA’s Jena Hunt. “We’re asking Eureka residents to take a bite out of cruelty by giving snakeskin and other exotic leather the boot.”…
Bloody Pulp
There’s three classes of people who will be most affected by the near-certain fact that the Samoa pulp mill won’t be open for business until 2011, at bare minimum. Moving down the list, those classes are as follows. Number one: employees. Richard Marks — pulp worker, labor organizer and one-time Fourth District Supervisorial candidate –…
Searching
Editor: Ryan Burns wrote an article on the plane that went down, and told some info about the pilot "Lost," March 12). I am the daughter of the passenger Rick Gustafson, and wanted to thank Burns, personally, for that article. My stepmom and I just spent three days in Arcata, meeting with the Coast Guard…
Grovies Respond
Editor: How interesting to find you, Mr. Sims, editor of the wonderful NCJ, with the attitude of "you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all" ("Town Dandy," March 12). How else can we construe your casual description of the severing of the roots of 30 of the largest old-growth trees in Richardson Grove State Park…
Get Lost
Editor: Allow me to offer one minor addition to Greg King’s self-stirring narrative ("Mailbox," March 5) about his solo discovery of the Headwaters Forest (an event, along with publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, that some feel marked the beginning of the environmental movement). Greg King wrote, "The big grove was trackless with dozens of…
Spectacles and Telescopes: A Small Mystery
Next month’s Godwit Days will bring birdwatchers to Humboldt Bay from all over, complete with their binoculars, telescopes and cameras with telephoto lenses. All these devices employ essentially the same system of optics to make distant objects seem closer, a system that dates back about 400 years. Most reference books give the date for the…
Ink By Barrel
Editor: As the writer for the competition with that feisty Independent, I’d like you to be aware that the community supports us as well, and in fact, we are more widely read than the Independent ("Media Maven," March 5). Your chauvinism is showing. Mary E. Anderson, Redway
The Last Horseman
I walk with diligence to the gate And…
Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night
Presented by members of the McKinleyville business community. Receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are from 6-8 p.m. on the third Friday of each month. Phone 834-6460 for more information. 1. The Front Gallery and Gifts 1181 Central Ave. Thomas Hovie, ceramics and paintings. 2. B&B Greenhouse 1179 Central Ave. Jennifer Varney, color…
Pizza-inspired Beans
“Non si dice: fa schifo. Si dice: non mi piace.” (Don’t say: It’s disgusting. Say: I don’t like it.) My mother had to repeat that fairly often to me. As a child, I had difficulty seeing the difference: To me, the fact that I did not like something implied that it was inedible. And the…
Ask Them Nicely
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk about my garden at a garden show. That’s kind of a weird thing for me to do; usually I assume that my garden is not remotely slide show-worthy and I don’t ever offer to give a presentation about it. But the organizers of this event insisted that…
Ghostride The Whip
If we were to put the Oakland Hyphy movement and its precursors on a timeline, it would look something like this, according to Ghostride The Whip: Black Panthers social solidarity movement … city wide crack epidemic of the ’80s … MC Hammer … Too Short … Mac Dre … Hyphy. Narrated by MTV anchor and…
Middle Cyclone
It’s hard to imagine a comparison of the delicate nuances of Antony Hegarty, from Antony and the Johnsons, with the type of brashness offered by singer/songwriter Neko Case. But as Antony had used Japanese Butoh theater (mainly through the legendary performer Kazuo Ohno), in which the performer attempts to embody a non-human form, such as…
Beyond Craven
Note to a Reader: Fred Hummel’s letter in the March 12 Journal makes the valuable point that the Sabra and Shatila massacres during the 1982 Lebanese War resulted from the Israeli Army’s enlisting of the Christian militia to purge the camps of "terrorists." Waltz with Bashir does allude to this fact, so I don’t want…
Embracing Ridiculousness
When Jordan "Yogoman" Rain called last week, he was on campus at Fairhaven College, part of Western Wash. U. in Bellingham, where he was finishing up paperwork to graduate with an interdisciplinary degree in music and business. Diploma in hand, he’s now ready to become a full-time musician, which is what he’s been doing already…
Until Memorial Day
Sheila Jenkins remembers her dad, Rick Gustafson, as a man who loved his Harley and the Miami Dolphins, loved cooking and golfing, and loved adventure. “Roller coasters, skydiving, you name it,” Jenkins said. On March 1, Gustafson was on one of his adventures — flying across the country with his pilot friend Vladislav Milushev –…
Requiem for the Fish
This spring a new documentary will wind its way through the Pacific Northwest, carrying a bittersweet message that shimmeringly echoes that borne by the steelhead and salmon making their lone, dwindling way these recent years upriver from the ocean. See here: a beautiful, feisty relic of the glorious past. See here: the fish, the fishermen,…
