December 31st, 2007 11:00am
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In which we have the temerity (or foolishness) to hope 2008 will be better
Christmas 2007 is but a dim memory. If you didn’t get all the toys you wanted, it’s too late now. We’re on to the the next thing. New Year’s Eve 2007-2008. On New Year’s Eve we reflect on the twelve months that have passed us by. His …
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December 28th, 2007 01:00pm
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In which His Majesty ponders signing the “don’t fence me in” ballot initiative for Sonoma County’s chickens
The Press Democrat published a story that disturbed His Majesty [and it's easy to disturb His Majesty, as he is pretty close to the edge of disturbed most days, anyway]. The article was about the chickens living in highrise cages New York City style.
More eggs than Carter’s got liver pills…[you younguns …
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December 26th, 2007 01:00am
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Here at last. Here at last. Thank God Almighty, it’s here at last.
Boxing Day. Here at last.
We knew if we were patient and waited long enough, Boxing Day would get here. Christmas Day belongs to the fat guy in the red suit. But Boxing Day is the holiday we long for. Boxing Day dates to Victorian England when folks put small gifts into boxes and …
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December 24th, 2007 01:00pm
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Fa la la la la…la la la grumble
So Mrs. Majesty announced that the royal couple was to appear at a neighbor’s house on a recent Sunday night for food, Christmas cheer and thence to wander the neighborhood bringing joy to the world by singing Christmas songs. It’s called Christmas caroling.
“Are you out of your mind?” His Majesty retorted. “Haven’t you listened to any of His …
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December 18th, 2007 04:00pm
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In which His Majesty peruses the Sonoma County Conservation Action report cards for local politicians and looks forward to November 2008.
They say that Bill and Lucy Kortum [love you guys, love your trail], those tree huggin’, frog-kissin’ hippies from the 60s, were instrumental in starting the Sonoma County Conservation Action something like a gazillion years ago. Wouldn’t know. His Majesty was busy single handedly stopping the …
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December 15th, 2007 01:00pm
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In which His Majesty reads the letters to the editor.
A letter writer to the Press Democrat (December 2, 2007) decried the barbaric practice by Chinese furriers of skinning animals alive to obtain furs for sale [we know, we know...gives His Majesty the willies, too.] So this writer from Santa Rosa [home of numerous chain stores and, soon enough, a brand spanking new Walmart barely ten miles from the …
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December 11th, 2007 01:00pm
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In which His Majesty scratches his head and tries to understand.
How to know you live in an urban area…a story New York City would be proud of…
You know you live in an urban area when the PD reports that the Petaluma Boys-In-Blue get a call that there’s a bloke down at the free C Street Garage entrance (the one caddycorner from the Cinema…you know the one where some woman was …
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December 8th, 2007 06:38pm
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A Cynic’s Christmas in Petaluma [apologies to Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales]
Only seventeen nonshopping days left to Boxing Day. An economist being interviewed on NPR spoke of the need to “get the consumers spending”. Sorta made His Majesty feel like one of the sheep in a pen waiting to get sheared. Not too far off. The Great American Consumer Public …
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December 7th, 2007 01:00pm
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In which His Majesty sets on the porch, shakin’ his head and sighing…
A reader points out that Windsor’s famed town green is beginning to languish after only two years of being ballyhooed in the newspaper for its great accomplishment of bringing people to a previously nonexistent downtown [don’t forget, Windsor is a baby town. Only just recently boomed. Petaluma, established in 1858, boomed almost fifty years …
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December 3rd, 2007 01:00pm
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In which His Majesty contemplates the cost of his automobile.
The patter of no feet walking…
A reader points out that Windsor is courting chain stores to move into its languishing Windsor Town Green Village [never give a town green a name that sounds like a mall] to increase foot traffic for the other businesses there, in the same manner that the Boulevard Cinema increased downtown and Theater Square foot …
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