The San Francisco Bay Area goes it on its own. Progressive plenty – or the “superclass” spoiling for neo-serfdom?
Who’s calling the shots at the world’s most productive electricity-generating geothermal field?
Does Costco employ a lesser-paid no-bennies shadow work force?
Pondering pornography, Annie Sprinkle and the meaning of life.
LifeRing’s secular challenge to AA’s “spiritually-based” rigidity.
It’s harder than spotting a white rabbit.
One man’s travels through a fate worse than debt.
Where corporate media went to die.
Decorum, while admirable, counts for nothing against a gilded cult of space-age, lizard-brain barbarians.
Author Claire Hope Cummings outlines how what we eat may have us in it.
Death Becomes Them—Agoston’s Grinning Ghost
“None bore witness, and no trace of him has ever been found.”
“…a tall, frizzy-bearded bohemian dreamer “with a nose like a Babylonian patriarch…”
In praise of ballot-box shock and awe.
It’s Barack Obama’s way of soliciting the essential “what is” from voters…
Nickel & Dimed/Wage Slaves in Paradise
Going broke and homeless in the neo-feudal North Bay is easier than you might think.
Dateline: Washington, D.C. June 10, 2013:
White House Press Secretary Ann Coulter looks stunning in sleeveless turtleneck business attire.
Barack Obama & the Post-Stupid Universe
…with W. gone there’ll be no brain vacuum to be filled in the White House.
The Trust Fund Triathlon is an especially popular Marin County event. First, select lucky spermers pit Beemers, Jags and Ferraris in the Daimler Demolition Derby. Then they…
Department of Defense wants us?
In fact, we’re a lot like KBR. If we don’t know how to do something, we’re still happy to charge big bucks and say we do.
Sure, it sounds crazy. Anti-development Republicans?
Fifty-six percent of California voters now favor the legalization and taxation of marijuana.
The inscrutable Stewart Brand, this world’s oracle enigma . . . lives on a tugboat in Sausalito?
It wouldn’t be Holy Week in Chihuahua without the tacos—Tarahumara butterfly pupae tacos—slathered in special seasonal sauce, to be exact.
The entire corporate broadcast news industry stands guilty of propagandizing We, the People of the United States of America.
Celeb Staff magazine knows you’ll never be a billionaire, so the pub glamorizes and promotes working for one, instead.
Snapshots from a life self-pinned under the triangle of justice.
Imagining a timeless meal through the ages with the eminent food writer Mary Francis Kennedy (M. F. K.) Fisher.
President Harry Truman first proposed national health insurance back in 1948. He made the single-payer system a centerpiece of his “Fair Deal.”
Where are the Unions? Grapes & Class Warfare
Highly skilled vineyard labor continues to go underrepresented.
Bricks & Mortar—Napa’s latest Vintage?
Marin student’s Supreme Court victory reminds that even an unpopular opinion is protected by the First Amendment
George Carlin Live at the Potato Palace
Now that he’s attained the septuagenarian rank of “old fuck,” and like old fucks since humanity’s rude beginnings, will next become a dead fuck, it’s pardonable to take the long view of a George Carlin show and cite a few precedents.
Proposed ‘eco-village’ could pop the peace in Angwin’s bubble.
When the T-shirt is the medium, we are the message.
Sardinia’s version is called formaggio marcio, meaning “rotten cheese,” or casu marzu, “maggot cheese.”
When a billionaire calling himself “the Grave Dancer” pumps fifty grand into a California state proposition, you’ve gotta ask yourself, just whose grave is he planning to dance on next?
Why Go Elsewhere to be Cheated?
“What’s with me? Well, I’ll tell ya, son. Someday they’re gonna write a book about me. Picture this—2,700 pages long. Four feet high. But no covers. Ya wanna know why? Cuz I got nuttin’ ta hide.”
Pete Bingo slurps down capitalism—on the half-shell.
Saint Benedict and the Addictive Chemistry of Love: a how-to kit for mad weasels.
The Geysers, located in northeastern Sonoma County and extending up into southern Lake County, is far and away the world’s most productive geothermal energy field.
According to the California Building Industry Association, California has the least affordable housing in the nation. Just how do we finance, build and provide housing for an ever-growing workforce?
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p. joseph potocki bio
I’ve been paid to:
lecture, caddy, mop floors, slice meat, sell liquor and night watch; write news, reviews, feature articles, investigative reports, profiles, promo materials, scripts, serial novels and short stories; count parts, move rocks and build espresso drinks; edit film, slides, audiotape and video; dig ditches, landscape and promote business; drive limos, vans, town cars, trucks & buses; rock n roll, tend koi, graft trees, sell shoes and pillows; archive films, load & schlep hay, paint homes and wash windows; guide tours, plant, pick and and haul produce; produce, direct and write for film and for video; bartend, book literary talent, wait tables and work wood; keep shop, manage a restaurant, install glass and central air units, run a non-profit, hoe strawberries and make flutes; write, produce and direct multi-media productions; entertain seniors and sell magazines and newspapers; edit a Russian documentary, blow holes through hills and rock, cook for the homeless, clean die cast machinery and work three factory production lines; create, develop and implement social programs; bend tubing, install fiberglass insulation, write grants, deliver deli delights, manage studio productions, raise political funds and break down engine blocks.
