I thought so — the haze I noticed while out and about this afternoon is smoke from the California wildfires. This planet seems awfully small sometimes. Some of you should probably leave — starting with the swine who hired Jenna Bush Hager as a “Today Show” correspondent when thousands of real journos are out of work. (OK, we’re talking TV here, and “Today,” but still, a gig is a gig.)
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While I hope the folks in CA are OK, this is one of the four seasons they have in SoCal…FIRE. The others are EARTHQUAKE, FLOOD and RIOT though they seem to come in random order from year to year. Great place to visit, but I’m glad I don’t live there anymore. Amazing you can see haze in the air all the way from CO!
Hey, Larry,
When we lived in Weirdcliffe it was common to see smoke from the Arizona fires — it just slid right up the Sangres and up our snoots. Truly weird to be getting a lungful of torched Englemann spruce from Payson. And dust storms from the San Luis Valley would dump grit from the Great Sand Dunes National Park on us, too. It’s a little ol’ world, for sure.
My oldest son is in West Hollywood. Being only in his early 20s his risk assessment skills are not so well developed, but we have talked him out of doing any hikes for a while and confining his climbing to the wall at the local gym.
“Geez, Dad it’s just some haze. I can still see the end of the block.”
Hey, Ben,
Ah, to be in my early 20s again. I was inhaling a lot of smoke then myself, but it wasn’t free — if I recall correctly, which seems unlikely, it cost $12 an ounce. I wasn’t living anywhere nearly as entertaining as West Hollywood, though (visited an artist pal there once). I was in Greeley, Colorado, which just ain’t the same.
For me Upstate New York and 20/oz. But, from what a friend of a friend told me (my economics prof’s, really) “If you want free be part of the supply train not the ultimate consumer.” Anyway I think that’s what they said.
Fifteen bucks a lid when I was young and crazy in Upstate New York.
I’ve seen better looking women than Jenna. And they’re not encumbered by the political baggage of her dad. Imagine going over to Girlfriend’s house and meeting Dubya and the Secret Service…
Ben,
West Ho, eh? Must be a short block.
As for Mrs. Hager: “…and “Today,” but still, a gig is a gig” says a lot. Especially when you have to wake up and ‘work’ next to Willard Scott.