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Happy New Year!
2008-01-02 08:48:00 Happy New Year ! This is an old photo I took around this time, back home, years ago. I wish I could have been there last night. It would have been more fun than being in jail. More About: Happy , Happy New Year
Feliz Navidad
2007-12-27 21:11:00 He sat in front of his television, watching old reruns. He held his grandfather’s old .45 revolver across his lap, thinking of the vicious ex-wife. She had an army of shyster vultures trying to pick away at everything he owned. I’ll be damed if that lousy bitch gets a fucking dime, he thought, as canned laughter ... More About: Feliz Navidad
Merry Christmas!
2007-12-25 07:55:00 Merry Christmas ! Forget all the blinking lights and fancy ribbons on your Christmas tree. This tree is, by far, the coolest Christmas tree I’ve seen in my entire life. The ornaments include empty cans of Olde English 800 (and other brands of beer preferred by the homeless population), discarded food packaging and handwritten signs typically ... More About: Merry Christmas , Merry
Dead and Forgotten
2007-12-20 21:47:00 The deceased was a 29-year-old aspiring actress. Her killer was a deadly combination of liquor, illegal narcotics, prescription pills and poor judgment. She fell asleep in her lover’s arms, and never woke up. But he did–with his arm underneath her stiff, lifeless body. After the distraught lover was removed from his high rise condo, the coroner ... More About: Dead , Forgotten
Bag Lady
2007-12-12 09:02:00 Five shopping carts containing numerous plastic bags filled with garbage. As long as these things don’t block foot traffic, nobody cares. More About: Lady
Callousness
2007-12-08 09:00:00 Ten minutes until opening time. I took my post at the front door of the nightclub. The ropes weren’t even set up yet and the line stretched down to the end of the block. A guy was sitting on the sidewalk curb in front of me, blood leaking from his head. He looked Cambodian. Maybe ... More About: Allo
Nipped in the Bud
2007-12-04 09:40:00 Closing time. I sat at the bar, sipping my scotch, waiting for security to get all the drunks out of the club. My head was somewhere up in the stale cigarette smoke, which lingered near the ceiling like fog. She approached me from behind, stood at my side and playfully nudged my shoulder with hers. ...
Semper Fi, Doc
2007-11-30 08:00:00 It’s been almost forty years since the old man in the wheelchair was a young sailor. Way back when, he bled and dodged bullets in some Southeast Asian jungle, in a country he hadn’t even heard of before enlisting in the United States Navy. As a young sailor, he thought he’d be on some ship far ...
No Money, No Honey
2007-11-24 09:01:00 Lola was a porn star turned single mom. Baby’s daddy was a three-strike loser who took up residence at San Quentin before Lola gave birth. For the sake of the child, she gave up porn, crossed two state lines and landed a gig as a stripper at a topless club just up the highway from ... More About: Money , Honey
Chronic Public Inebriant
2007-11-20 09:01:00 Most transients have at least a piece of cardboard to use as a mattress. This bum was so out of it that he passed out without his. But no one seemed to care since he was on a sidewalk with very little foot traffic. More About: Public
Blog of the Day
2007-11-16 18:01:00 The kind folks over at FuelMyBlog have awarded me their prestigious “Blog of the Day” award. It looks like they’re based in the UK, which means because of the time difference between here and there, my day might be up pretty soon. So take a look while you can. This free sticker could be yours! Because I’m ...
Love Ain?t Cheap
2007-11-15 08:47:00 As I made my rounds through the nightclub, I spotted an off-duty cop by the name of Pete sitting at a booth near the main bar. Sitting opposite Pete was a guy I’d never seen before. Pete saw me and waved me over. I took a seat next to Pete, who introduced me to his ... More About: Love , Cheap
Rolled Up
2007-11-13 06:00:00 In the urban jungle, people get rolled up for as little as a few bucks or some spare change. Most of the time, no one really cares.
Imminent Collision
2007-11-09 07:41:00 I sat at a booth near the dance floor, watching the crowd. A club chick sat next to me with her legs on my lap. She was a Saturday night regular who liked to cling to me and give me updates to her life story every weekend. Most of the time, she talked about her boyfriend–some ... More About: Collision
Death by Oil Change
2007-11-02 08:14:00 The decedent was lying on the ground, not far from the exact place of his expiration. Paramedics pronounced him dead at scene, placed him on top of a white sheet belly up and then wrapped it over him. He was a fat man, and the sheet wasn’t big enough to cover him completely. Most of his ... More About: Change , Death , Chang , Chan
It?s Cheaper to Keep Her
2007-10-27 18:06:00 Jack caught up with me at the usual watering hole. It wasn’t the classiest of joints, but the drinks were stiff and it didn’t cost an arm or a leg to get juiced. As an added bonus, none of my nightclub regulars frequented the place. I could drink anonymously, without distraction. “How was your trip?” ...
Sneaky Sodomy
2007-10-22 11:32:00 It was not unusual for Sleepy to drink himself into a drunken stupor, and then pass out. He couldn’t help himself. The liquor numbed him to the fact that he would have been better off as an abortion. But the one thing that the liquor couldn’t numb was the incessant pain in his rectum. Strange, this ... More About: Sneaky
This Seat?s Taken
2007-10-18 05:40:00 I sat in the VIP room, smoking a cigarette, sipping my scotch, engaging in meaningless conversation with a table full of drunks. Some chick took a seat on my lap as if it was reserved just for her. “Do I know you?” I asked with a smile. “No, but I know you,” she replied, gracefully removing ... More About: Seat
The Real Kung Fu
2007-10-16 07:00:00 Howdy from Shanghai! There’s a lot to see and do here. Especially eat. The food is great. Although I didn’t eat at this particular joint, the image of my childhood hero Bruce Lee was guarding the place and I had to snap a photo. I was curious as to the quality of food, but my buddy ... More About: Real , Kung Fu , Kung
Cheap Conversation
2007-10-11 10:00:00 I heard some muffled shouting, cursing and a series of thuds punctuated by agonizing yelps. It came from outside–the universal sounds of violence. I turned my head to the direction of the commotion, unable to see outside the windowless room. “Just a couple of drunks fighting,” she told me nonchalantly. “Don’t worry, it doesn’t have ... More About: Cheap , Conversation
Alleys
2007-10-08 22:03:00 Greetings from the motherland. It’s been a while since I’ve been to my place of birth (Seoul, Korea). The labyrinth of alleys that connect the city never ceases to amaze me. I always wonder how people find their way around.
Distraction
2007-10-04 07:34:00 The ringing doorbell caught the old woman by surprise. She wasn’t expecting any company–especially from three gypsy women and an infant. Hesitantly, the old woman opened her door. The three gypsies greeted the old lady as if they’d known her for years and entered. Two of the visitors engaged the old woman in conversation. “Look at ... More About: Distraction
Love by the Hour
2007-09-29 11:09:00 Jules was an old acquaintance of mine who ran an escort service. It was quite the jump from being a kitchen manager, which is what he was last time I had seen him. But oddly enough, it didn’t seem out of character. He showed me his operation while we caught up. “Is what you’re doing legal?” ... More About: Love , Hour
Suicide Bluff
2007-09-24 09:23:00 When Little Johnny got grounded, one of his punishments was the suspension of all internet privileges. He could endure exile in his room. But the confiscation of his computer with wireless internet? That was the last straw. The kid had to make his move. Little Johnny loaded up his paintball guns and found a couple of ... More About: Drama , Suicide , Bluff , Cide
Biohazards
2007-09-19 17:21:00 Pipsqueak was a little runt with a big ego. He was as unremarkable drunk as he was sober–just another nobody who thought he was a somebody. At 1:45 am he was just another drunk nobody getting eighty-sixed from a grimy little nightclub in a grimy part of town. About 20 minutes later, Pipsqueak and two of ... More About: Drama , Biohazard
New Look
2007-09-16 16:29:00 Well, I’ve got this site’s look about where I want it. It’s been a while since I’ve designed anything (over a year since the last time I’ve played around with Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML and CSS), and as a result, it’s taken me a lot longer than usual for me to put something together. Anyway, I just ... More About: Blog , New Look
Abandoned Baby
2007-09-10 05:40:00 It was two o’clock–time to kick out all the drunks, clean the place up and get the hell out of dodge. It was a task I took on in a most expeditious manner at the end of every shift. The faster we could get every customer out the door and lock it up, the faster ... More About: Baby , Drama , Done , Abandon , Abandoned
Falling Skies
2007-09-03 01:31:00 When the sky fell down over Manhattan on the Eleventh of September, we all felt the crunch. Even I did, all the way over on the other side of the country. People weren’t coming out and spending their money like they used to. The crowds of people lining up outside the front door of the ... More About: Drama
Unlikely Accomplice
2007-08-22 04:51:00 There’s a guy I know who lives in a shady part of town. The other night, he woke up to the sound of some little shithead breaking into his car. He looked out his window, verified that it was indeed his car that was being violated, quickly got dressed and ran outside to confront the ...
In Your Face
More articles from this author:2007-08-19 05:51:00 It seems that you can’t go anywhere without some type of advertisement being pushed at you. When you take a piss at the bar, they make sure there’s an ad right in front of your face. You leave the bar and catch a cab home. There’s an ad on top of the cab. Or maybe ... More About: Opinion , Face , In Your Face 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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