First of all, this week’s Musing is not very amusing; quite the contrary I must say. It’s about the senseless violence that’s going on all around us. Take for instance the attempted assassination of a former president. Whether you like him or not, it’s still...
The other day, I was walkin’ down Lake Drive, toward Goodwins, when I came across one of my fans, a voluptuous blond gal named Lil, but everyone knows her as Nancy… Hmmm? So, I asked her, “Where ya goin’, honey? And she sez “Seattle, mister, where’re you goin’?” So, I...
When I left The OC back in ‘76, I thought I was saying goodbye to the bumper-to-bumper gridlock I’d been subjected to for years on end. But, no, thanks to the years of deferred maintenance on the part of Caltrans, I have to wade my way through bumper-to-bumper traffic...
Saturday, June 20 heralds the 55th anniversary of Neil Armstrong becoming the first person to set foot on the moon Black boy in Chicago playing in the street, not enough to wear, not near enough to eat. Don’t you know he saw it on a July afternoon, he saw a man named...
So, I was thumbing through a June 2004 edition of The Mountaineer, a bi-monthly magazine published by The Alpenhorn News, a predecessor to the Alpine Mountaineer, which you are reading right now, or else you wouldn’t know any of this good stuff. Well, as it turns out,...
Well, I hope we survive all the Fourth of July fireworks extravaganzas without burning down the mountain. Anyway, now it’s time to get on with the rest of summer. One of the best things about summer in sunny Southern California – no matter whether you reside at the...
