There was a schizophrenic woman at Mother's Market today ( Read more... )

In 1997 I got a contract job working for Sprint in Kansas City. I'd never done out of town contracting, but this was attractive: good money for work I find easy, in an inexpensive town. I set off for a cross-country drive on Interstate 40 at a leisurely pace, stopping for the night in Flagstaff and again in Tucumcari, NM. After a long day of 80 mph ( Read more... )

D.Z. is standing outside looking uncomfortable in the cold in a windbreaker with the hood up. Enter MEDICATED BOB, who's neither totally insane or totally okay today ( Read more... )

switchstatement posted a link to this rappin' Blue Blockers sunglass ad (mp3), and I immediately recognized the artist. It's Dr. GeekIn my Dark Ages when I was a 20-something yuffie with no reason to live, I rode the bus in Los Angeles. For ten years. It did not improve my disposition. I frequently had to take the Wilshire or Santa Monica buses across town, which ( Read more... )

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P. was a file clerk at the hospital where I was a first a transcriptionist and later the supervisor. I worked with her for almost five years ( Read more... )