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Mental Disorder
A collection of written material and images
All work copyright Crawdad Nelson unless specified otherwise
California Improved
Lobo woke about noon, or maybe a bit later, feeling as if he had spent the night inhaling poisonous gases. He checked his tobacco pouch....
Auto-ekphrastics
The text in the loon bit comes from the day we kayaked over the Santa Cruz yacht harbor, bumping up against the extravagant lifestyles of...
Notes on Falling Water
Long line of aluminum cattle cars thumping slowly over the trestle over the river running deep and heavy, reaching into the trees; broken...
Why CNN Sucks as Much as Fox News
Napoleon, Moscow; GW Bush, Baghdad: Why CNN Sucks as Much as Fox News Americans love history but make no pretense of understanding or...
Fake News and actual facts
Pitch Coming home alone on a bike past Three Corners and the stink of the equestrian stable, then Deadman's curve with the fox tails on a...
Who Comes After Whom?
The division between reality and Trump is not some distant geographic line but a close personal distinction which in most cases divides...
Shut Up and Pitch
One fine spring day in Arcata I was branded “narc” by a band of guttermuffins who had taken over Redwood Park for a 420 celebration They...
Why Not to Visit the Little River Sinkhole
Most people know about Glass Beach if they know about Fort Bragg, and they have one of two or three opinions about it. Either they...
Glass Beach: Fort Bragg's Historical Trash Heap
There is probably nothing about Fort Bragg, California more well-known at this moment than Glass Beach, the strand of rocky little...
Which Metaphor best Describes the Trump Presidency?
Which Metaphor Best Describes the Trump Era? It’s already the worst presidency in American history, judged according to actual results....
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