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Jay Casbon: Jimi Hendrix and the Loneliness That Lit the World (opens the original)
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I was having a discussion with my son, Phillip, and our conversation turned to the public attention around Jimi Hendrix, the rock superstar who sang openly about depression. He died in September 1970. It has been 56 years since his death, and somehow, he matters as much today as he did when he was alive. What is that all about? How does a man who left the world at 27 still feel like he’s speaking directly to us — not from a poster, not from a myth, but from the ache inside his music? Maybe it’s
Jay Casbon: Labor Day 2026 and the Work of Carrying On (opens the original)
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Labor Day arrives this year with a peculiar resonance. It’s meant to honor the dignity of work — the daily, ordinary, unglamorous labor that keeps a community upright. But in California, 2026 has felt like a season when simply carrying on has become its own kind of profession. The news greets us each morning with a fresh audition tape for the apocalypse: El Niño warming offshore like a pot left unattended, the San Andreas Fault muttering in its sleep, climate models that read like speculative fi
Jay Casbon: America’s $40 Trillion Wake-Up Call (opens the original)
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Let’s speak plainly, the way Santa Barbara neighbors do when the fog lifts and the mountains show their honest faces. Forty trillion dollars in national debt is not a statistic. It’s a national mood. It’s the fiscal equivalent of finding a 500-pound raccoon in your pantry and saying, “Well, he seems friendly.” If 1 trillion seconds takes us back 31,600 years, then 40 trillion seconds drops us into the Miocene Epoch — 12 million years ago, when early mammals were wandering around deciding whether
Jay Casbon: The Gospel of a Central Coast Rams Fan (opens the original)
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On the Central Coast — where the fog doesn’t “roll in” so much as wander around like a retired usher looking for the sanctuary doors — late August marks a sacred ritual: the annual reanimation of the Los Angeles Rams fan. He emerges from summer like a bear that overslept through three alarms, blinking into the marine layer and immediately worrying about the offensive line. Nothing says spiritual renewal quite like fretting over left guard depth before the coffee has even negotiated its way into
Jay Casbon: Where Gardens Make Us Neighbors (opens the original)
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I wrote this piece after noticing how often my neighbors greet their gardens the way old friends greet each other — with patience, affection and a kind of hopefulness. It struck me that these small gestures are part of what makes the Central Coast feel like home. Gardens don’t just grow flowers; they grow connection. On the Central Coast, it’s not unusual to see someone step outside at first light and greet their garden as if greeting a companion. A quiet nod toward the tomatoes. A gentle word t
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