Summer Book Specials |
Heading into the season of long days at the beach with not
enough to read, the good folks at Bleak House Books have put together some
fantastic package deals on my and other (great) authors books. ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:05:00 GMT |
Mortality and other perks of city living |
Walking a mile or two to the post office to mail a winter jacket to New York (these things just happen), I was almost killed three times. I blame it on In-N-Out Burger. Recently, I drove the...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:50:00 GMT |
Hiding from imaginary closet-dwellers who set fires |
Disturbingly enough, when a neighbor recently ignited her carpet, desk chair, armoire, and back porch umbrella, it was not the incident itself that left me most lastingly unsettled. It w...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:25:00 GMT |
Bloodeye and the Happy Meal Conspiracy |
So I was at McDonald's the other day. Say whatever you want, but McDonald's is like the bathroom we all say it's dirty, but the French fries are so great that everyone has to go now and then, even i...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:41:00 GMT |
My New Career as a Chimney Sweep |
So with Hollywood officially closed until further notice (and, apparently, don't hold your breath), clouds are gathering on the horizon of the City of Angels. Sure, a week or two of sipping mint julep...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:22:00 GMT |
The last thing to enter my kitchen through the ceiling |
Nature hikers and professional photographers will attest that there are few things more beautiful or unique than a waterfall at sunrise. This is one of those universal rules that has a bylaw, an...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:31:00 GMT |
On Fleeting Romance and Estonian Mothers in Pink Bathrobes |
Last night, something tragic happened. My neighbors an amorous couple consisting of an Estonian actress who practices shouty family reunion scenes at three in the morning, and a passionate you...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:31:00 GMT |
A Night at the Hot Tub |
Tonight, I was flashed by a girl in the hot tub who should not have bared her bosom at me. I'm not saying this as a kind of mean, superficial judgment on her appearance. It's not. ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:12:00 GMT |
I live next door to a brothel |
I don't really know how else to say it. They don't wear many clothes. They have male solicitors in various forms of disrobe knocking loudly on their door at all hours of the day. It ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:15:00 GMT |
If only this was fiction |
There were noises from the bathroom walls last night. Now, it approaches the hour of two and my slimy black friend is still curled in the bathtub. This is not a racist statement. I...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:15:00 GMT |
