Robespierre, a frequent contributor at Fodor’s Travel Talk Forums online, suddenly stopped posting to the boards in July of last year. NPR’s All Things Considered did an essay on why he stopped and the reactions of his fellow forum posters. Robespierre died. People he knew online — friends and acquaintances — knew only that...
Hey Man. I’m a little sore that my comment to your Germs post didn’t make it through moderation. Sure it was rambling and not entirely relevant, but I thought the link to Dan Graham’s documentary Rock My Religion was mostly on target since it examines, among other things, the same era (although it does...
“Got him already at the market,” he flicked the radio on and dialed in the National Weather Service. The officious voice of an Englisman droned out the hourlies. Pete shook his head, “We’ll try it tomorrow.” He turned off the radio and checked his watch. “You shoulda seen him. I’m not ready to say...
Lefty leaned away from the rail. He pulled several feet of hose aboard. He pulled until he could pull no more. He pressed against his knees, which were wedged into the lower rail, and lurched forward and snatched a few more yards of hose and wrenched himself backward again. The hose was slippery and...
Two blocks closer to Wilshire and work I find the most remarkable stash ‘hidden’ on top of a phone company transfer box. There’s a half-empty jar of “Goobers” (which appears to be peanut butter and jelly packaged in the same jar), the alternating ribbons of peanut butter and jelly rising up to the mid-point...
The Laundromat may be near the eastern fringe of Broadway and Redondo, but it’s not the actual eastern edge. The Coffeeshop that doubles as a late-night Alcoholics Anonymous meeting place is the actual eastern edge of the neighborhood and the rest of the block to the east of that is the frontier between Broadway...
There’s a whole pile of Joe Frank’s radio shows available here. Who is Joe Frank?
Here’s what the 5th graders arrived at the butt-ugly house dates the gymbag and a stupid New York farts poop Both of which best the subject line come-ons in this morning’s spam haul: Vanessa We Are Committed To Help You Live Healthy Naked drunk teen Babes Stephen Bruce Best Travel Value Nation’s Foremost Mortgage...
Here’s one I’ll try with my writing students. Exquisite Corpse is so famous Andrei Codrescu named his journal of new writing after it. How to play? Three or more players sit around a table, each equipped with paper and pen. Each writes on cue a particular grammatical structure (adjective, noun, verb, adverb, and so...
Here’s a Miscellaneous paragraph from something I’m working on elsewhere: I park up on La Jolla because my boss is too cheap to pay for a parking permit in the building. It is six blocks down to the office. I enjoy the walk and it helps me ‘transition’ from the commute up from Long...