98 |
Plot 98A card sharper meets a stranger, plays poker with him, takes some money away from him. They play again. The sharper wins again. At last they meet in a great final game, and the sharper loses...
Posted by Zak on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:03:00 PST |
leg |
It's been said that there are only 4 plots, reused for all stories ever told in world. James N. Young found 125, and wrote a book called "101 Plots Used and Abused" (1945): No.37Bandits break in on a...
Posted by Zak on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:14:00 PST |
party |
I walked by a birthday party in my neighborhood, someone has this backyard that lets out onto the sidewalk, and sometimes there are mariachi bands in there or stuff. There were all these pink balloon...
Posted by Zak on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:58:00 PST |
Clothes |
Have you seen these jackets that have pictures of sneakers all over them? It's a hip-hop thing. The jackets look kind of expensive. I think I've seen caps with pictures of shoes on them. I was wal...
Posted by Zak on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:26:00 PST |
whitecollarhomelesscrime |
I used one of those bank ATMs that take your card and then give it back, and like I've done before, left it in. I called the bank today, and somebody else got the card, bought two ten dollar metro ca...
Posted by Zak on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:03:00 PST |
violence |
I was biking home, tonight, down Manhattan Ave., pretty slow, and I got near the projects around Meserole and I saw this guy sort of lunging on the sidewalk and he made a sort of agressive noise, or s...
Posted by Zak on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:52:00 PST |
Monkey |
Why do people think monkeys and robots are so funny? The first time I saw the comic "Monkey vs. Robot" I thought, this is so great. Not the title, yes the title, but the comic is really good. Then ...
Posted by Zak on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:53:00 PST |
animal |
There's a cardinal that comes and eats the birdseed I put on my windowsill. He eats noisily. The air in the apartment is full of smoke due to the thousands of BBQ's that are being put out in this ne...
Posted by Zak on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:23:00 PST |
coffee |
There's another great thunderstorm going on. I was at the Atlas Cafe yesterday afternoon, because its very studious, like a library and they have good bagel/coffee. I spread out my papers and worked...
Posted by Zak on Fri, 11 May 2007 03:33:00 PST |
names |
No news site had a front page on May day celebrations (tho US media had couple things about immigration demonstrations today-but nothing on worldwide scale), except al jazeera, which has a great news ...
Posted by Zak on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:01:00 PST |
