“Dude, have you seen the purple toilet?” While that question may initially strike you as potentially LSD-induced, non-hallucinating Eureka residents will back me that such a public oddity exists in reality. Proof, man: This plum Duchamp homage forced me to circle the block and pull over on I St. this morning on my way to […]
Curiosities
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His Beak Can Hold More Than Your Kayak Can
Barry Evans, our master of Field Notes, sent us this note-and-photos e-mail package today. Speaks — er, beaks for itself: When our kayak group was paddling during the low tide in Trinidad Bay this morning (Sunday), we were graced by this brown pelican, which perched on Mark Sommer’s boat for about 15 minutes, showing no […]
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Eureka Moment
The grizzled fifty-something slowly marches along, up one sidewalk and down another, over the crosswalk and up and down once more. And again. He stares straight ahead, unsmiling as he traces the border between street and storefront, weaving a great big Old Town net as the boombox clutched in one hand broadcasts the spell: Walk […]
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Creepiest Mug Shot of the Year
Hands down. This dude was arrested Friday morning after allegedly hitting a man in the head with a handgun, then barricading himself in his garage. (Shudder.)
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Buy local! Holiday gift sure to please
Because what could be better than a piece of Absynth? Quintet, that is. Would you like to give a friend a slot as the sixth member of Humboldt’s renowned* gypsy-jazz-string-happy Absynth Quintet? Or have the erstwhile male models** follow them about for part of a day a la Jonathan Richman in Something About Mary? Or […]
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That Wild Drummer
This week’s Hum starts out with a bit about the improv trio Holshouser, Bennink and Moore , (aka Third Man Trio) coming to town next Tuesday, Oct. 20 , for a Redwood Jazz Alliance show in HSU’s Fulkerson Recital Hall. The interview with the band’s reeds player, Michael Moore , ( a Humboldt native ) […]
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Marsh booty
Two odd things found at the Arcata Marsh of a Thursday afternoon: A federal reserve note worth ten dollars American, right in the middle of the path with no one in sight. A malformed dog licking the crank of a partially dismantled bicycle. Granted, it was my dog, but still…odd.
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Where’s Mike?
My brother-in-law Chris sent a link to this amazing photo: ” President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address by David Bergman ,” on a site called gigapan.org . Bergman explains: I made this Gigapan image from the north press platform during President Obama’s inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. It’s […]
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T-S ends long theological debate
A snow angel Buried in the Op-Ed section of today’s Times-Standard is this stunning, er, revelation from contributor Dave Stancliff: Angels exist! This will no doubt be shocking news to the 17 percent of (hell-bound) Americans who have until now denied the existence “God’s Ambassadors.” “These blessed spirits are armed with the authority and might […]
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Premature Blogulation
Checking my RSS feed for Humboldt blogs this morning, I came across a surprising story on Heraldo titled “Crawford heads Chamber” saying: Eureka political dude and Humboldt Herald regular Chris Crawford is the new head of the Eureka Chamber of Commerce. Hearty congratulations were doled out at Tuesday’s Eureka City Council meeting. Crawford is an […]