Why FasTrak is Bad for Our Artists!This morning, the toll taker greeted me with a bellowing “Hello! My friend!” I said hello, as I usually do if they’re alert. He winked at me and declared “Hey, man, if you smile I’ll remember you in my will!” This 60-ish Pakistani man was high, certainly.
Or was […]
The worst part is that this kind of thing can happen every time I reach to answer the phone. The sound of her voice on the phone brought a dark, grating feeling with it. My brain flashed ahead of what she was saying. I’d register the words and then she’d speak them and they’d simply […]
As a highly-targeted marketing method, spam, or unsolicited email messages, offer keen insight into America’s demographic makeup. Recently I have taken it upon myself to begin examining the types of spam that I receive, in an effort to discover who exactly spam marketers are trying to reach. Clearly, fat surrealists with bad credit who have […]
When ‘You’ Means ‘Me’Allison was worried about the tattoo she was about to get. As much as she was looking forward to emblazoning an image of Buddha and Gaia’s love-child on her stomach, she feared the pain of the needle. As we stood in the kitchen, cooking the dinner shift, she confessed her overwhelming sense […]
My People Have FallenMcDonald’s has conquered my ancestral homeland.
Witness: The McFalafel.
“And the lamentations from the people did drown out the sound of the sea, and their tears did set forth upon the earth a slick of mud that swallowed beasts of burden and buried roadways, houses. And father unto son and mother unto daughter […]
KROON SPEAKSLast week I wrote to Molly:
Surprised to find myself tick-sick and sold-outWe went out to see David Sedaris at Stacey’s Books yesterday at lunchtime. Near the door of the bookstore, Andis and I had to skirt a small crowd that had gathered around a few dozen protestors. The protest was pretty well-organized by the young group that was putting it […]
Any club that would have me as a member…It’s one theory that mass media destroyed community. Is it any surprise that people might have had friendships with their next-door neighbors before radio or television?
Quite another theory is that the internet will restore community. Not only restore it, but instate it at a level of […]
Boo!I just wanted to take a second and thank all the European protestors who are letting Gee-Dubya know what they think of him. He can pretend that Americans support him (many *actually do* - gosh) but the Spaniards and French will heckle him like the overgrown churl he is.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010612/ts/bush_europe_dc_16.html
Give Gee-Dubya a piece of your […]
No help here, but may I feed on your misfortune?Despite being able to hang on to my job thus far, I’ve decided to sell my flashy Jetta and bring down my monthly cost of living. Seemed like a good idea in all respects.
So today I put my car up for sale on CraigsList. I […]