January 25th, 2012 | Author:
Ralph
Who hid the road?
The rain has stopped here in the idyllic Sierra foothills. This is the first rain of the rainy season, nearly two months late. In California if it don’t rain during the winter then it just don’t rain at all because it never rains in the Summer. Down in LA, rain is irrelevant or worse, a damn nuisance because it just floods the gutters and runs into the ocean after washing the oil residue off the roads and causing chaos on the freeways. The water is all imported from elsewhere. It’s a convenient arrangement.
California Aqeduct
In the hinterlands of Northern California its different. The rivers run all year round and until recently nobody metered water service. It was all you can use for a flat monthly fee. Folks up here are resentful of Southern California who, they think, want to steal their water. (One of the three SoCal aqueducts takes water from the north to the south). More than anything else, water divides California. Periodically proposals surface to divide California into two more homogenous states but they always founder. Northerners want to cut all ties to the south and stop sending precious water south but unfortunately for them Southerners have more population. There are so many more Southerners that a single California state will always provide water to the south no matter what kind of fuss the north puts up.
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January 22nd, 2012 | Author:
Justin
Originally posted 2011-01-28 06:08:53. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
I hope everyone had a good break from the regular cantankerosity and enjoyed Heathers work. She has some good rants on things us other Coots don’t think about.
Is anyone else out there getting tired of winter? I know it has been very erratic around much of the US and still continues to be…strange weather to say the least. Next Wednesday the weather prognosticator of all prognosticators will make his debut and tell us all whether we can look forward to 6 more weeks of winter or not.
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Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.
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November 06th, 2011 | Author:
Ralph
What’s your image of San Francisco?
Forbidden pleasures? Anything goes? The BART tunnel under the bay? Alcatraz? Hordes of smelly homeless people?
SF has a well deserved reputation.
It is stunning visually with graceful towers rising out of the bay and a unique cable car experience to get visitors up and down the steep hills. Then there are the great restaurants catering to every budget and taste. It’s also the place were individual liberty is indulged, protected and encouraged from the homeless people clamoring for change on market street to the gay lovers holding hands in the Castro. San Francisco is the place where anything goes without even a pretense of old fashioned conservative values. Los Angeles is often satirized as the home of the fruits and nuts but LA is more like your grandmother while San Francisco is a high priced slut.
San Francisco is a great place to visit because you can pretend that you are crossing the line while remaining perfectly safe. All that tantalizing and questionable living going on right under your nose but you can enjoy it vicariously without risk. When in LA you quickly penetrate the facade of glamor and sin and discover that underneath you find a lifestyle that wouldn’t be out of place in Des Moines. Not so, San Francisco. Wherever you scratch the surface in San Francisco you find life that is bohemian at its best and downright otherworldly at its worst. more…
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July 18th, 2011 | Author:
Bob
Yeah, yeah, yeah…so I’ve missed a few Mondays. Well…I’m here today with something new…
As a mea culpa, I return bearing gifts…or at least one gift…ME ON VIDEO!
All seriousness aside…there are two differences on the Monday posts:
1.) They’ll be more regular (I promise!)
2.) Mondays will be all video, all the time.
Enjoy.
The videos will have me in them…of course you’ll enjoy them!
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Bob comes to us with a skeptical
attitude and a full cup of Cantankerousness. He also writes about homesteading and yurts over
at JuicyMaters.com and rants about politics at Common-Sense-Conversation.com
Don't forget about "The Political Coot" right here Tuesdays at 8pm Eastern.
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February 27th, 2011 | Author:
Ralph
Image by Shavar Ross via Flickr
Do you believei it? There is so much going on this week that this Coot almost forgot about the Oscars. If you want to view all the contenders before the secrets are revealed, you had better get busy because you only have a few hours to do it. Otherwise just get ready for the excitement. I get shivers when I think about that red carpet and those movie stars competing to see who can wear the most ridiculous outfits. From what I can tell, they will be shivering too unless the weather changes because it is cold in LA today. If you are excited then light a fire and pull up a chair in front of your TV for the big show.
You weren’t planning to watch?
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