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Julian calendar

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Brick Wahl

However, the Julian calendar did approximate the solar year, and was not just some arbitrary sequence pulled out of Julius Caesar’s assassination.

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Rubber bands

I used to shoot flies out of mid air. I still can sometimes. And when I ran the mail and shipping center at the US Borax headquarters down on Wilshire the USPS used to wrap letters in these rubber bands that were so strong they’d leave big welts if misused in rubber band fights. Painful […]

Where grandmas come from

A classic photo from a Byrds gig—that’s them on stage in the background—at Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip. It’s only 1965 and the Byrds are still singing Mr. Tambourine Man, but the wildness and abandon in this woman’s dancing (I first wrote chick’s but times have changed) more than hints at the mind expansion, freedom […]

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Yet another intellectual writing about Plan 9 From Outer Space

Every time I watch Plan 9 From Outer Space I’m disappointed. Not by the movie. I actually kinda like the movie. I’m one of those type of intellectuals who can while away time he could spend on something useful and instead watches Plan 9 From Outer Space. Unironically, even. But every time I do watch […]

That Dexter Gordon tone

Damn, I wish I could get that Dexter Gordon tone in my writing. You can feel the reed vibrating between your teeth, a big man’s sound that fills the room, every corner, every crevice, the ceiling to the floor and even reverberates in shot glasses and empty beer bottles. Toward the solo’s end it disappears […]

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Kamala Harris

Forgot about this–I wrote it in 2018. So I was wrong about the primary path–she never ran in any this year–but that last line proved right….just four years early. Ha. Just saw the overwhelming support Kamala Harris has among politically active women of color. Looking at the 2020 primary calendar I see it is even […]

Photos had power

I was thirteen and vividly remember the news coverage and especially the photos in this issue of Life. I also vividly remember the massacre at Jackson State about the same day but alas, there were no skilled photographers on hand and it slipped from the public memory quickly as a lot of the massacres in […]

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Gifting

Like so many hundreds if not thousands of English nouns, gift actually began as a verb but at some point a millennium ago was nouned only to be reverbed in the last century and now sits uncomfortably as both noun and verb. My guess it’ll be mostly a verb in a generation or two, since […]

Big bacterium

A bacterium (I’ve always wanted to say a bacterium) of the largest known bacteria is nearly an inch long. Whatever the bacteriological word for gnarly is, this is that. Not only can you see them with the naked eye, but you can see them with the naked eye in the naked everything, if that’s your […]

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