Last Call

Last Call: 10-10-20

Yeah, I’m way late. Just got back from picking up our wine shipment at one of the wineries owned by members of Tower of Power, called my mother, and started some paella for dinner. So, MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

Bottoms up to 2020. We’ve had to deal with a lot, haven’t we? From lockdowns, civil unrest, economic uncertainty, over 213,000 souls lost to COVID-19 and the efforts to dethrone the sitting president on November MORE

Free Chat Friday

Free Chat Friday, Week 42

Happy Friday News Viewers — I would’ve had this posted earlier except I ran into technical problems— those tech problems resulted in Major psych problems — I’m sure Moderna or AstraZeneca are whipping up a MORE

Last Call

Last Call: 10-03-20

Goooooooood evening, News Viewers. Thirty more days to the election, providing one candidate lives and the other stays healthy. It’s been a hell of a week in COVID-19 news culminating with the announcement that Trump, MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

Well, who knew that our virus fatigue and our Trump fatigue would commingle into this kind of peculiar Happy Hour? It seems that the news today traveled faster than SARS-CoV-2, and left us wondering how MORE

Last Call

Last Call: 9-26-20

Gooooooood evening, News Viewers. I hope you’re enjoying the last weekend in September. We’re now only 37 days away from what is presumed to be a very, chaotic election day. Just get your ballots in MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

It seems appropriate for our Friday News Views Happy Hour to be Ladies Night. Today’s conversation with my dear sweet dimunitive mom quickly led to us talking about the life and death of a cultural MORE

Last Call

Last Call: 9-19-20

44 days, amicos!!! 44 days and We the People get our ONLY CHANCE to save democracy, our country from fascism, and to kick that Orange Sociopath the hell out of The People’s House. Get registered, MORE

Talk o Tuesday

Talko Tuesday 9-15-20

Good morning, News Viewers! Just saw the weather report and it looks like CA is finally cooling down and the smoke may start dissipating. I look forward to a cool down and less smoke because MORE

Last Call

Last Call: 9-12-20

Live from smokey, haze crazed California! Yes, the air quality is a putrid 200 AQI where I live; San Francisco comes in 201 AQI. We were supposed to walk down the street to a local MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

Peaches are everywhere at my house. All from one tree in my back yard. They’re on my patio, they’re on the kitchen counter, they’re in baskets, they’re in bags. Manna from the peach gods (that’s MORE

Free Chat Friday

Free Chat Friday, Week 37

Happy Friday, News Viewers, although we’re swimming in a river of tragedy, chaos, catastrophic and memory on this 9/11/2020. Nineteen years ago, we were, as they say, “woke”; this week, it happened again. . . MORE

Last Call

Last Call: 9-5-20

We’re getting there!!! Just looked at our Election Ticker and 59 MORE DAYS!!!! Get out the vote and get Trump the hell out of here, please. This Day in Trump’s America: Louisville, Kentucky. “You a MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

Happy Friday, Happy Labor Day Weekend! Good grief!! Has anyone given thought to a long holiday weekend? I’m sorry to rain on the parade of those still suffering heat waves, but it feels like fall MORE

Talk o Tuesday

Talko Tuesday 9-01-20

It’s September, people. Although this year has sucked ass more than any year thus far, it’s almost over. Normally, I would be excited about now because fall has always been my favorite season but, not MORE

Last Call

Last Call: 8-29-20

Huh, I just pulled up last week’s episode of Last Call and realized I screwed up the date and no one noticed??? You guys aren’t on your game; you usually notice every typo I make; MORE

It's 5:00 Somewhere

It’s 5:00 Somewhere

After four long nights of drivel, droning on about the Dotard Party and the devilish Dotard himself, I have to admit I’m hung over. I’ve had a GOP headache for about the last three years, MORE

Last Call

Last Call: 8-23-20

So, CA’s relentless and crippling heat has returned (well, it really never left) and the state is still on fire. We’re all staying indoors, with the AC blasting, because the air is filled with smoke MORE

Last Call

Last Call: 8-15-20

Rachel may have posted about California’s crippling and disgusting heatwave, but those of us call the state home are living it and it sucks. I believe around noon, we hit 104 degrees with clouds, humidity, MORE