Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
- William BlakeBehind the Locked Door
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Alan Graham aka Captain Fathom
He wandered about aloof from reality. Whether or not he knew where he was going was hard to tell. When that raucous laugh assaulted your ears, your body tensed in anticipation. He spoke with an irritating nasal tone and his face was often fixed in a stupid smile. ...
Clifford
Clifford came with the restaurant. He traded errands and odd jobs for food. He could have afforded to pay cash but the Sea Gull was his home and nobody paid cash for food at home. Ice cream and butter were cheaper at Safeway, so Clifford toted them down on his way...
Guest Post: My Ghosts – by James Maxwell
EXCERPT 'A Mid-summers Night's Dream' The people of Mendocino and the regulars at the Sea Gull were not my only unrequited love affairs. It was my belief that I belonged here. True, I knew Antonia and her family when I arrived, but I moved to the coast because of the...
Remembering The Sea Gull Restaurant
Remembering the Sea Gull Restaurant An Afternoon at the Kelley House July 24, 2011 Click on this link to see the video: VIDEO
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Guest Post: A Janitor Remembers – by Mitchell Zucker
Excerpts From The Cult of the Buffalo (originally written around 1978) by Mitchell Zucker Any resemblance of the characters in this story to actual characters is not only unintentional and coincidental but also reprehensible. The Royal vacuum sucked up the night’s...
B-Not
We had our share of strange folks in and out of the Sea Gull. Cat Woman (see Eleanor Cooney’s excellent article on p. 64-5 at this link), Mat-head, Radio Man, and a flasher who always arrived wearing a black trench coat and sat in a booth in the back of the dining...
86’d
In my early years at the Sea Gull there was a time when I lived upstairs in a converted liquor storage room. I hired Orval, the plumber, and Ed, the tile setter, to help convert one end of the small room into a bathroom with a shower. It was small, dark and it picked...
Mickie and Michael
The thing about musicians, at least the ones I know, is that they live for the music. Money, fame, name-dropping—that's not where it’s at. I was always amazed when a musician, starving, unable to pay the rent, would show up at the drop of a hat to help with a...
Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art Show
In June 2015 Jennifer Linley Taylor organized an auction and show of Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art at the Mendocino Art Center. You can read more and view other pictures and links HERE. You can find more on the Sea Gull Paintings HERE. And, visit the Food Page for...
The Sea Gull Paintings
"My first body of work was in 1976, painting the 12 Fairy Tale portraits of 150 Mendocino locals for The Sea Gull Restaurant and Cellar Bar," explains James Maxwell. The paintings were completed between 1976 and 1986. "The Sea Gull paintings represent the...
The Trolley Problem and The Winter of Our Discontent
The Trolley Problem was first introduced by the British philosopher Phillipa Foot in 1967. Many versions of this problem have been used to elucidate some tricky issues surrounding morality. The Sophie’s Choice-like decision that must be made in the Trolley Problem...