Carla’s memorial by Chris Clarke
It was Saturday. You can read a pretty good description — with a few inconsequential errors — here. It was such a Berkeley event. On the campus, the Campanile bells ringing, a third of those present in...
View ArticleCredit where due by Chris Clarke
You might have seen those little icons next to individual blog comments on other blogs — I had them here for a while, and may well again if I ever figure out how to work the CSS formatting so that...
View ArticleLife As We Know It by Chris Clarke
I was reading Thomas Frank’s What’s The Matter With Kansas this weekend. It’s a good book so far, though I’m stunned that any liberal pundit could read this eloquent telling of plain, obvious fact and...
View ArticleNot that I’ll enjoy taking more time off work, mind you… by Chris Clarke
So I’ve set up the new household wireless network, encrypted to defeat all the thousands of Pinole wardrivers, and am enjoying Teen Girl Squad wirelessly from the comfort of the bedroom, listening to...
View ArticleThe queen of raccoons and drunken birds by Chris Clarke
The first line of the poem below was a friend’s ironic self-description in a discussion on a BBS some years back. (A BBS, children, is what your parents used to chat on before there was AOL.) Anyway,...
View ArticleWriting on a wide variety of topics by Chris Clarke
It may surprise new Creek Running North readers to learn that when I started this blog, it was intended to be a place where I could write about things that didn’t raise my blood pressure. I edit a...
View ArticleA happy Happy Holidays image by Chris Clarke
May your next few days be filled with lights, chiles, and fluff.
View ArticleAnniversaries, blogging and otherwise by Chris Clarke
Ten years ago this week I started this blog, or the previous version of it called “Creek Running North,” with a story about an impromptu hug from a passing snake on the shore of San Pablo Bay. Five...
View ArticleDoghouse Riley is gone by Chris Clarke
Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. This Internet is just a little bit stupider this week: Indiana lefty blogger Doghouse Riley, a.k.a. Douglas Case, died a week ago today at age 59. Roy has a...
View ArticleInterview with Meera Lee Sethi, author of Mountainfit by Chris Clarke
My friend and Coyot.es Network colleague Meera Lee Sethi, who blogs here at Dispersal Range, wrote and crowd-funded a book called Mountainfit. Self-published at first, it was then picked up by a...
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