First, I want to extend a big round of applause to the Mayor of Claycord. He posted a story about my blog, http://www.crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/. And, over the past… Read more “All Hail Claycord.com! And everyone, per Claycord.com’s recommendation who read www.crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com, and who commented”

Lying in the gutter in the street. As I drive by my son’s school. A red furry corpse. Lying on its side. Nested in a bed of… Read more “Another dead squirrel sighting around my Walnut Creek ‘hood”

Something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie? Well, not entirely. The woodpeckers aren’t swooping down on the seniors at this local retirement community to peck at their… Read more “The Birds 2008?: Woodpeckers terrorize suburban retirement community”

Maybe the Prozac is kicking in. Of course, it can’t hurt that my presidential candidate of choice, Barack Obama, was elected. But it was also exciting and… Read more “I’m Actually Feeling Hopeful”

Okay, maybe I’m in one of my alarmist moods, but I saw my latest dead squirrel this morning. I was dropping off my son for his Saturday… Read more “Dead Squirrels Around My Neighborhood: Sign of the Apocalypse?”

Seeking escape from the global economic crisis, I came across this exciting bit of celebrity news: Brad Pitt’s long-awaited photos of Angelina Jolie for W, including a… Read more “Mom exposes breast in Whole Foods! A nursing Angelina Jolie exposes a breast (sort of) on magazine cover!”

It’s good to read that support is slipping for Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that seeks outlaw same-sex marriage in the state, has fallen during the… Read more “The bigots are losing on the same-sex marriage debate”