Outside the Adidas store, two stray dogs lick each other, graphically, until the one covered in red sores nips a little too close. The love turns to rage and a savage fight erupts. In an underground walkway, a thin man hustles to sell red-faced tourists motivational posters where eagles soar and babbling brooks run past [...]
Posts under ‘Pretending to be serious’
Folks, we’re all gonna die.
You better appreciate this post. Because the longer I sit here typing it, the faster my ovaries are shrinking and dying and a cancer is growing inside me. You didn’t know? Yes, as wars rage and children starve, newspapers warn us: laptops are but the latest psycho killers destroying our fragile human bodies.
I mean, duh. [...]
Welcome to Cougartown.
Awhile back my brother and I had dinner in Del Mar Plaza, a beach side complex with a great big terrace overlooking the Pacific ocean. That evening a band was entertaining a crowd of merrymakers (most who had likely been at the Racetrack earlier that day).
One woman in particular caught our eye, particularly my brother’s [...]
Chicago, Chicago that toddling (racist) town.
I’ll admit up front: I was predisposed to hate Chicago. You come from either coast, and it’s pretty much ingrained to mock the middle. I mean, people are all apple pie and blond and friendly there. And not friendly in the safe, fake way of Southern California. Like really friendly. They want to help [...]
