From Russia with love

From Russia with love

Time traveling: back to a marvelous trip I took in summer, 2004, to the land of White Nights, pelmeniy, kvas, and the iconic onion-domed Orthodox cathedral in Red Square. Magadan From New York we took Delta to Moscow, an eight-hour flight across eight time zones....
Guest poetry today

Guest poetry today

This is from my dad, Gene Culver: he’s a bit fed up with the Orange Menace and his tactics in Portland. I don’t know that Dad has written poetry before, but this seems very advanced. A complex rhyming structure, strong imagery, and fits Trump to a tee....
It’s a messy time. Let’s clean house.

It’s a messy time. Let’s clean house.

You know where I’m going with this. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. We’ve got an incredibly important job over the next five months. It’s a bicameral job. Two elements. Both are necessary, only one will leave us lost. (Arguably...
A mass of senseless rubble

A mass of senseless rubble

It’s been over a month ago since I last posted. I feel I’ve let myself down. No, not you, my lovely readers – me! I mean, you’re really great and all, but it’s only been during lockdown that I’ve ever had a string of posts behind...
Scumbag advertiser

Scumbag advertiser

Want to get Trump out in November? Let’s show him for what he is: the pinnacle, the absolute apex (he’ll like that) of that most hated category of workers in the world: the grimy, lying advertiser. About all Trump can legitimately lay claim to is his...
Corona, time and pastry

Corona, time and pastry

* Not my pastry ** Great British Bake Off bakers made this *** This looks hard Consequence of watching the Great British Bake-off, I’m sure, but I have this indelible image of the flaky layers of the past three months collapsing in on themselves, and of losing...