Tuesday, April 27, 2010

CHARLIE AND THE WRITERS’ CONFERENCE

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[Summer, 2009] CHARLES MANSON showed up at the writers’ conference I was attending. Perhaps he, like others beholden to the bankrupt State...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

IN ATTENDANCE AT THE CHURCH OF THE OPEN ROAD: A WORK DAY WASTED

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I WAS SUPPOSED TO WORK today. Punch the clock. Of course, now, it’s my own clock. But still, I'm supposed to work. Especially if I w...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

NO POINT A, NO POINT B – SHIRTTAIL CANYON ROAD

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YEARS AGO, following a misplaced directional sign way to hell and gone out in the woods, I ended up on a road that I hadn’t intended to take...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

APRIL SHOWERS ON YANKEE JIM’S ROAD: FORESTHILL TO COLFAX

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BEYOND YANKEE JIM’S – little more than a place name now-a-days – the pavement disappears, replaced by nicely graded and securely packed grav...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Concours 1400 Test Ride

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(March 2007) THE ROAD FROM INTERSTATE 80 to Wharton’s Market in Foresthill is a paradise for anyone on a two-wheeler. Nice pavement. Well...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

"Death Panel" in the Season of Rebirth

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IN HONOR OF BROTHER MICHAEL STEWART ON A WEDNESDAY, just after Easter, in the season during which everything is reborn, Brother Michael St...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Meanwhile, out in cattle country...

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WRANGLERS – worn threadbare at the butt pocket and frayed about the back of the cuffs. Justins – mud or crap caked in the welt where the so...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Let’s Teach Congress to Wave, Friendly-like

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I AM STRUGGLING to get past that good-time feel of being out on the motorcycle, cruising through spectacular scenery and being regularly gre...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

You meet the nicest people on a ...

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Back in the 60s, a fledgling Japanese motorcycle manufacturer concocted the slogan: “You meet the nicest people on a Honda.” The concept st...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

An Open Letter to Congressman Tom McClintock

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I want to compliment you. First of all, sir, know that you and I are probably as opposed politically as any two folks can be: gay marriage,...