TRAIN WHISTLE… As Squid was oozing briskly down the Rec Trail near Cannery Row in Monterey, getting some cardio, Squid was shocked to see something happening at the old red caboose because nothing ever appears to happen there besides some tourist photo ops. The “something” was just a piece o…

DEEP POCKETS… It’s that time of year when Squid’s sea-snail mailbox starts filling up again, thanks to the political mailers. In Squid’s lair, your likelihood of being elected has more to do with your place on the food chain than how many sand dollars you keep on hand. In the human world, it…

HOT LINKS… Squid oozes around town and also around the internet, where you never know what you might find. Screenshots of sassy comments posted then deleted by slow-moving sea stars? Check. The internet is forever, even when you delete stuff.

BURIED TREASURE… Squid has already plundered most of the sunken treasure in Squid’s watery lair – good supplemental income to work as a columnist – and lately has been thinking about oozing onto land to see what shiny objects Squid can dig up with the help of Squid’s treasure-sniffing doggo,…

SLIP ON IN… Despite Squid’s obvious personal interest in water, Squid cannot possibly ooze to every public meeting about the subject – there are just too many agencies and too many subcommittees. So for a long time, Squid did not notice that ex-Salinas city manager Steve Carrigan was attendi…

SUITE LIFE… During the AT&T Pro-Am, Squid likes to ooze around Carmel to check out the golf crowd. (With all those pastel polos, however, nobody was winning at fashion.) Thanks to Squid’s underwater lair, there was no need to book a hotel in the village. If Squid did stay overnight, Squi…