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Blog Posts in Alphabetical Order
4 Reviews For Behind The Locked Door
A Few Comments About the Old Sea Gull Cellar Bar
A Few Things I Learned Running A Restaurant
A Look Back at the Trump Years Through the Eyes of Napkin Artist Roy Hoggard
A Personal AI Answers the Proust Questionnaire
A Simpleton’s Guide to Stock Prices
About the Sea Gull: Once Upon A Redwood by Maria Goodwin
Adriana Diaz Enciso: Doleful City of God
Alan Graham aka Captain Fathom
All Reviews For Behind The Locked Door
America Through Foreign Eyes – A Timely Read
An Indulgent Nostalgic Journey
Appreciating Oaxaca with Saul Bellow and Italo Calvino
Are You Ready For Some Football
Author Interview: Behind The Locked Door
Ayotnizapa, Tlatelolco, Kent State and More: Massacres as Public Policy
Bacalao, Christmas, Zihuatanejo and Behind The Locked Door
Behind The Locked Door – 1 – Book Notes
Behind The Locked Door – 2 – Book Notes
Behind The Locked Door – Excerpt 1
Behind The Locked Door – Excerpt 2
Behind The Locked Door – Excerpt 3
Behind The Locked Door – Final Excerpt
Behind The Locked Door – 3 – Quotes and Details
Bonehead Economics: Things to Know in the Era of Trompudo
Book Review: Came A Horseman by Paul McHugh
Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith
Book Review: The Lady With Balls by Alice Combs
Calm Down and Shut Up: The Politics of Lao Tzu
Cellar Bar Napkin Art Christmas Special
Chester Anderson – The Butterfly Kid – Mendocino – The Sixties
Coincidence or Business as Usual
Cow Hollow Bartender Assaults Seniors
Creativity: Who What When Where Why How
Crossing Borders: Paul Theroux and Stephanie Elizondo Geiest
Daniel Bolelli, Thomas Paine, and St. John of the Cross
Do We Live In An Artificial World
Do We Really Need This Tax Cut? Just Askin’
Doveryai no Peroveryai – Trust, but Verify
Drunkards, Fools, and the United States of America
Easter Thoughts – In Defense of Moderation
Ethical Optimism and Integrity: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide To Life’s Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder
For Love of Math: Platonist, Positivist, “Philanderist”
Gerardo Navarro Gomez: Art in the Slow Lane
Global Warming: Deniers, Doomers, Dreamers, Doers
Guest Post: A Chicken is a Chicken is a Chicken – Gil Gevins
Guest Post: A Janitor Remembers by Mitchell Zucker
Guest Post: A Little On The Small Side – Gil Gevins
Guest Post: Groucho and Harpo Save Planet Earth – Mitchell Zucker
Guest Post: A Saint in the Compost by Montgomery Howard
Guest Post: Memories of Symbolic Theater 1985-86 – Mitchell Zucker
Guest Post: My Ghosts – by James Maxwell
Guest Post: My Problems With Republicans – Gil Gevins
Guest Post: Once Upon A Time In The Pigmy Forest by Mitchell Zucker
Guest Post: Origami Place by Hayden Jones
Guest Post: Raven Man by Mitchell Zucker
Guest Post: Short Fiction – “F” by Mitchell Zucker
Guest Post: The Diamond’s Sutra by Mitchell Zucker
Guest Post: The Magic Clock by Mitchell Zucker @ 1990
Guest Post: The Parolee by Mitchell Zucker @ 1979
Guest Post: The Swan and the Sculptor by Mitchell Zucker
Guest Post: There Was A Time – Merlin Tinker (Barry Weiss)
How Baseball Channels True Believers, Scientists and Artists
How Happy Or Sad Will You Be When The Election Results Are In?
How I Learned To Read And Write
How Richard Brautigan Saved My Life
I Want To Write A History of Inequality
Imagination and Reason in the Time of Tragedy: Lao Tzu, Voltaire, Blake, Camus, and Marquez
It’s Here – The Kelley House Napkin Art Show
Jesus Mezcal and the Easter Bunny
Karson’s Favorite National Park – Yellowstone – A Story by Karson Jones
Karson’s Favorite Train – The White Pass & Yukon Railway: A Story by Karson Jones
Keeping the Peace During the Holidays
Kelley – Sculptor, Piper, Busker
Kelley House Sea Gull Napkin Art Show
Keynesian Economics and the Sea Gull
Look Homeward Angel and the 1918 Pandemic
Lost Letters Found (To The Sea Gull After the Fire)
Lost Chapter To My Novel Behind The Locked Door
Loving Animals in Their Proper Place
Mezcal Brings Out Cow Hollow Eatery’s Oaxacan Roots
Monkeying Around: Isak Dinesen, Frida Kahlo, Wislawa Szmborska
Napkin Art Channels Drupi’s Vado Via
Napkin Art Gallery Complete For Now
New Book Review For Behind The Locked Door
New Years 2017 Napkin Art Special
New Years At The Sea Gull – 1975
Oaxaca Earthquake Damage Extensive: Urgent Support Needed
Oaxacan Wood Carvings: Folk Art or Fine Art?
Oaxaca’s Amazing Graphic Arts Studios
Pale Horse Pale Rider: Katherine Anne Porter’s Classic Short Story of the 1918 Pandemic
Poem by Think in the Morning: A Bee
Poem by Think in the Morning: Analytic Geometry
Poem by Think in the Morning: Basket Case
Poem by Think in the Morning: Between the Days
Poem by Think in the Morning: Blake’s Songs
Poem by Think in the Morning: Bird
Poem by Think in the Morning: Extra
Poem by Think in the Morning: How To Be Happy
Poem by Think in the Morning: Hummingbird
Poem by Think in the Morning: If Stones Could Speak
Poem by Think in the Morning: Lament
Poem by Think in the Morning: Micpapalotel
Poem by Think in the Morning: Mole
Poem by Think in the Morning: My Ph.D. in Bussing Tables
Poem by Think in the Morning: Nothing
Poem by Think in the Morning: Now
Poem by Think in the Morning: On The Fourth of July 2021
Poem by Think in the Morning: Red in Tooth and Claw
Poem by Think in the Morning: Rue de Marchands
Poem by Think in The Morning: Silly Restaurant Poem
Poem by Think in the Morning: Sloth
Poem by Think in the Morning: The Barranca (for Philip Larkin, Tomas Transtromer Malcom Lowry)
Poem by Think in the Morning: The Crossing
Poem by Think in the Morning: The Lion
Poem by Think in the Morning: The Man in the Zocalo
Poem by Think in the Morning: The Old Sea Gull Cellar Bar
Poem by Think in the Morning: The Prisoner and the Fish
Poem by Think in the Morning: There Ain’t Any Tree
Poem by Think in the Morning: Three Deer
Poem by Think in the Morning: Truth
Poem by Think in the Morning: Two Poems
Poem by Think in the Morning: Ode to Spring
Poem by Think in the Morning: What Can We Know
Poem by Think in the Morning: Where The Blood Red Huckleberry Grows
Possibility in an Impossible World
Random Thoughts on David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Reading A Little Bit At A Time
Rebuild Part I: Fits and Starts
Rebuild Part II: The New Sea Gull Restaurant
Remembering The Sea Gull Restaurant
Road Tripping To World Peace: Interlude II – Alexander von Humboldt
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Interlude I
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part I – For Anthony Bourdain
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part II – For Anthony Bourdain
Science Fiction, Economics And Life: Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds
Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art Show
Sea Gull Cellar Bar Remembered
Sea Gull Jazz Special: Judy Mayhan, Kiyoshi Tokunaga and John Gilmore
Sea Gull Recipe Series – Chicken Kiev
Sea Gull Recipe Series – Oysters Bouillabaise
Sea Gull Recipe Series – Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Sea Gull Recipe Series – Sticky Buns
Sea Gull Recipe Series – Sweetbreads
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
Short Fiction – A Cautionary Tale Based on Personal Experience
Short Fiction – Cado Maestro Tiene Su Librito (Every Teacher Has His Little Book)
Short Fiction – Charlotte Marie
Short Fiction – Charlotte Marie (A Sequel, The Snake)
Short Fiction: Chekhova – With Assistance From Marlene Hall
Short Fiction – Desipio: First Part
Short Fiction – Desipio: Last Part
Short Fiction – Dreaming of Gogol
Short Fiction – Hi-Tech Burnout
Short Fiction – Huckleberry Blood
Short Fiction – If I Were Dead
Short Fiction – Intestinal Fortitude
Short Fiction – Mendocino Wind
Short Fiction – Statue: Inspired By Fleur Jaeggy’s Water Statues
Short Fiction – Tag Along (for Anthony Bourdain)
Short Fiction – The Great Divide
Short Fiction – The Inheritance
Short Fiction – Three Weeks In Mexico
Short Fiction – Traveling to Oaxaca
Short Fiction – Traveling to Oaxaca Ending
Short Fiction – Traveling to Oaxaca Part II
Short Fiction – Traveling to Oaxaca Part III
Short Fiction – Traveling to Oaxaca Part IV
Short Fiction: Chief Thunderbolt – For Merle Haggard
Short Fiction: Green Leaves, Muted Flowers, Darkness
Short Fiction: Here I Am Washing Dishes
Short Fiction: Horace Cucumber: A Cautionary Story For Parents With Unruly Children
Short Fiction: How Was Yelapa?
Short Fiction: Sundayed – A Sort of True Sea Gull Story
Short Fiction: The Dust Gatherers
Short Fiction: The Genesis of the Rabbit
Short Fiction: The Heisenberg Cut: Behind The Locked Door Lost Chapter
Short Fiction: Where is Santiago?
Some Optimistic Reads On Christmas Day 2016
Some Personal Thoughts On Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
Some Personal Thoughts on Death
Some Traditional Markets of Oaxaca
Sortition: Selection of Public Officials By Random Selection
Special Thanksgiving Napkin Art Special
States I Have Visited – by Karson Jones (7 years old)
Summer Read: Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde
Summer Read: “F” by Daniel Kehlmann
Summer Read: Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Summer Read: Mouth To Mouth by Antoine Wilson
Summer Read: Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Summer Read: The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Summer Read: “TRUST” by Hernan Diaz
TASTAAFL – There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Tell Me Again, Why Is It Called Happy Hour
The 1918 Pandemic and Willa Cather’s One Of Ours
The 1918 Pandemic As Seen By John O’Hara
The Attack of the Fifty Food Baby
The Attic – Where Artists and Browsers Can Meet
The Attic Gallery Art-In – Part I
The Attic Gallery Art-In – Part II
The Attic Gallery Art-In – Part III
The Best Giant’s Catcher – Buster Posey – A Story by Karson Jones
The Bliss of Absent Mindedness
The Complexity of Hypocrisy in the Age of Donald Trump
The Democrats Need A Brock Purdy
The Fourth of July – Tom Paine Day
The High Muckety Mucks and the Hoi Polloi
The Kelley House – The Sea Gull – Mendocino History
The Kid Who Love His Grandparents So Much by Carter Jones
The Last Town On Earth: A Recent Novel on the 1918 Pandemic
The Medium is the Message: David Wallace, Marshall McLuhan, Delarosa Redux
The Mendocino Gong Show at the Sea Gull Cellar Bar 10-20-1982
The New Pied Piper of the Sea Gull
The Real National Emergency in America
The Sad Story of Three Misfits
The Sea Gull Blogs – Mendocino A Half Century Ago
The Sea Gull: A Short History of Its Location in Space
The Super Bowl Indicator and Other Nonsense
The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today
The Trickster: Clifford Irving in Oaxaca
The Trolley Problem and the Winter of Our Discontent
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living
The Watchful Eyes of the Censors
Think in the Morning – Splat in the Afternoon
Think in the Morning, It’s Good For You
Tre Piatti: Food and Art in Puerto Vallarta
Trompudo, A Literary Phenomena
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Two State Parks and a Red Tailed Hawk
We Cracked Pots Have A Sense of Humor
Welcome to the American Kleptocracy
What I’m Reading – David Dephy
What Does It Mean to be an American?
What is the Economic Impact of Natural Disasters?
What’s With All the Elephant Napkins?
Why Does “The Bad” Drive Out “The Good”
William Maxwell’s They Came Like Swallows