I don't know how much I've talked about how much I love my room, and how much I love being in my room again after nearly three years of ceding it to other people for one reason and another. I'll have to be out of it again for a few weeks after knee surgery but I'm getting back to it again as soon as possible ( Read more... )

Just got a precinct-walking visit from Richelle Noroyan running for city council. I said I was concerned that the city council wasn't doing enough to make the city livable for working class people and she said all the right things after that about infrastructure and housing and even race.Having talked to other people since then, I believe she was ( Read more... )

The details are here.I promise this livejournal is not turning into All Book Promotion All The Time. I just feel I must do my job ( Read more... )

The latest attempt to split California into little bitty pieces has achieved a pile of signatures to turn in. I never did figure out how to complain about the deceptive signature gathering techniques being used in Santa Cruz. The man with the clipboards was asking people if they wanted to sign a petiution to allow local governments to outlaw ( Read more... )

Remember what Mark Twain said about rivers? I don't, exactly, either, but basically, they move. You can beat them up and move th8em around, but some day they will move again . . .

Local example.

Bognar Szilvia(Szilvia Bognar).

On another front: frost on my rooftop this morning ( Read more... )

I feel like an overprivileged brat for the second time today writing about this, but it's tropical out there.  Warm and muggy and very windy, with that weird light that comes from a certain kind of cloud cover -- like we're going to have sunshowers or even a full-bore rainstorm with the sun glaring through.  It's not very cloudy, but the clouds ( Read more... )

This is what happened.  By 3:15, students at Santa Cruz High School were telling me the guy had shot someone at Harbor High School (which is two neighborhoods over).  In fact, schools in the nearby neighborhoods were put into lockdown for a bit and students who could be sent home in cars were and students who were going to walk or bus home were ( Read more... )

I just got a push poll, the kind where you know exactly who set it up after only a few questions.  It's all about the desalination plant ( Read more... )

Not doing this in writer's block because that's not how I got the idea.  Bean montag personhead did it and asked for her readers to do it ( Read more... )