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The year’s final pettiness

Saying nothing

Sasse sashays away, cops collaborate with ICE, Tennessee man sues over jailing for meme…

Weekly Dead People — 12/30

Van dreaming

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 12/30

Frank, and a few more movies

The mystery of the stink

Petty as fuck, guilty as charged

Mom’s photos

Between barfings

Not a plea for help

Anything Goes — 12/27

Trump admin sues to loosen gun laws, Flock feeds are wide open, US will keep or sell oil stolen from Venezuela…

Unlabelled

The day after Christmas, 2025

American police are out of control — 12/26

Decent human beings

My browser history, minus the porn — 12/25

Christmas, 2025

Four buses to breakfast and back

No Christmas, 1995

Twister on Christmas Eve

The Jazz Singer, and a few more movies

Pigfish Café

Weekly Dead People — 12/23

A Christmas message

The laws against you

Trump admin OK’s human trafficking & literal piracy, Vance won’t apologize for being white, and here’s your censored 60 Minutes report

Xmas angst and depression

Three bus rides, and one train ride

American police are out of control — 12/21

Your government, breaking your heart

Semi-interesting x2

No holiday bird

Hank Williams with wheat toast and coffee, please.

Klezmer Maniac

Trump preps “sweeping crackdown” on opposition to fascism, Milwaukee judge guilty of obstructing Secret Police, Feds send your neighbors to Guantanamo…

Dollar Tree bonus burritos

Wavy Gravy and Norikonoko

Ignoring the climate emergency — 12/18

American police are out of control — 12/18

Jackie Brown, and a few more movies

A “Berkeley liberal”

The ten-minute tax

Weekly Dead People — 12/17

Tidying up, just in case

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 12/17

My browser history, minus the porn — 12/16

The church youth group

Bodega daydreams

Burn it all down.

Someday Soon
by John the Basket

Eye on AI 👁️ 12/16

Jabberwocky, Odds Against Tomorrow, and a few more films

Rock-bottom prices

On the radio, whoa-o-o-o on the radio

Father of none

That’s never not happened before.

Masked man abducts Secret Police, Arkansas scuttles Sesame Street, “serious” safety warning for COVID vaccine…

Glo’s Café

Squarespace

Rain

The news on TV

Anything Goes — 12/13

American police are out of control — 12/12

3-year-old forced to serve as her own attorney, Secret Police target Somali-Americans, Alligator Alcatraz uses CIA-approved torture tactics…

Walk with a friend

Free human dignity. Come and get it.

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 12/10

Dead People Weekly — 12/9

Lunch with Danny, dinner with Josh

Itty Bitty Titty Committee, Ivan the Terrible, and a few more movies

Am I street legal?

The Sheridan misconception

Trevor and Gerry

Out of talk

It’s Such a Beautiful Day, and a few more movies

The informant

Anti-vaxxers hug hepatitis, fisherman’s family files murder charge, Kohler wants to monitor your poop…

On the loading dock

Anything Goes — 12/6

American police are out of control — 12/6

My browser history, minus the porn — 12/6

Friday off the bus

In the Mood for Love, and a few more movies

Andrea and Shannon

Thursday on the bus

Wednesday on the bus

Unsigned

More big-time bad guys pardoned by Trump, AI-fueled socialism, and they’re coming for your VPN…

Dead people — 12/2

The free speech ghetto

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 12/2

Permit to Place Object on Sidewalk

Monday and Tuesday on the bus

American police are out of control — 12/2

Eye on AI 👁️ 12/2

Nod and say nothing.

Curbing the bus

Nobody’s touching me, including me.

It’s All True, Pee-wee as Himself, and a few more movies

Mister Seahawks

Thanksgiving, 2025

“And how’s life?”

Motoring with Mitch

Murdered on Hegseth’s say-so, Meta’s 17-strike policy on sex trafficking, and same old same old Trump’s lawbreaking…

Anything Goes #56

It’s a Bird, and several other strange movies

Diane & Jeffrey

Go straight instead

How it all ends

A few cards short

The criss-cross exercise

My browser history, minus the porn — 11/27

Puerto Vallarta

“Rice, steamed vegetables, and more rice, to go, please.”

Killing cones

Dead people — 11/25

Mad dog

Absolutely not ready

Not even in dreams

Pardons for sale, MAGA propaganda is largely foreign-sourced, Trump continues war on not-white people…

Saturday’s breakfast

The Fire Within, and a few more movies

Tumbling

The annual gamble

It Rains on Our Love, and a few more movies

No bus to the bus barn

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 11/23

Well, I didn’t know *that*.

Anything goes #55

Getting to Georgetown

Studying for the short bus

Swastikas aren’t hate, Feds monitor people’s driving habits, regime pretends at release of Epstein files…

American police are out of control — 11/20

Eye on AI — 11/20

Being a furry, and other observations

Trumpet solo

It Happened One Night, and a few more movies

Driving the short bus

Alone is the baseline.

Dead people — 11/18

Another breakfast without breakfast

Cops and Christians

My browser history, minus the porn — 11/18

Allergic to garlic

More homeless please, no more pot gummies, and Trump wants war…

Ignoring the climate emergency — 11/16

Double feature and second thoughts

My browser history, minus the porn — 11/16

Anything goes #54

Government shutdown

27 minutes

I Want to Live on Mars, and a few more movies

The voice in my head

One fewer flatmate

① No checks, and ② Shut up already.

Another fine breakfast with my family

Drugs Are Really Excellent

Mr & Mrs Lebowitz

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 11/13

Trump is a kiddy-diddler, murders more sailors, pardons more co-conspirators, goes all-in on Dunning Kruger…

The ethics hotline

A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square

My browser history, minus the porn — 11/11

Dead people — 11/11

Cinemax unscrambled

How to not make friends

Fingerprinted

The Edukators, It Came from Outer Space, and a few more movies

Walk away.

Mr Rogers and the Brick Hut

The long odds of life

Getting to know me

American police are out of control — 11/8

More Trump murders, work permits don’t permit working, crooks impersonate cops impersonating crooks…

Eye on AI 👁 11/8

Many questions, fewer answers

Richard Jewell, and a few more movies

“How much?”

Anything goes #53

Chinese at the bus station

A pee before leaving

This is America

“That’s the fam,” she said.

Climb every motherfucking mountain

American police are out of control — 11/5

The Collapse, and a few more movies

Rescued

And Now the News — 11/4

Dead people — 11/4

Which way you goin’?

Bea

An old man’s good old days

Island of Flowers, and a few more movies

Tweaker on the #12

Handshake

Is Paris Burning?, and a few more movies

Don’t walk, don’t talk.

Never to return

Road Movie, and a few more films

Incoming wounded

The rules of riding the bus

The end of October

And Now the News — 11/1

Anything goes #52

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 11/1

American police are out of control — 11/1

A dog’s worries

There was no struggle.

Ignoring the climate emergency — 10/29

Dead people — 10/28

American police are out of control — 10/28

Shots

Marijuana cookies, $2

Eye on AI — 10/28

And Now the News — 10/28

My obituary

Interstellar, and a few more movies

A bike and a dozen bugbombs

Story time with Gertrude

Robert at Saint Anne’s

No boners for her

My browser history, minus the porn — 10/26

Terry’s new job

American police are out of control — 10/25

Anything goes #51

And Now the News — 10/23

“I’m enduring it, but how much longer?”

Dead people — 10/21

Ignoring the climate emergency — 10/21

Under the hat

Not a moment I’m proud of

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 10/20

Too much sleep

American police are out of control — 10/19

A gig I didn’t get

And Now the News — 10/19

You missed a corner.

My browser history, minus the porn — 10/19

The man whose name I’ve forgotten

Anything Goes #50

Ha! I got the last word!

Eye on AI — 10/16

A brief history of fish

Dead people — 10/15

An evening with Loki and Martha

American police are out of control — 10/14

Visit to Anderson Valley

The morning nothing happened

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 10/12

An untaped schlong

And Now the News — 10/11

Eddie Anderson at the Oaks

The daily walks

At Marion’s apartment

Anything Goes #49

Mr Irion surprises me.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and a few more movies

Purple and hairy, and thanks, Hollie.

Ignoring the climate emergency — 10/8

Flea ride

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 10/8

A lot of rot about freedom

American police are out of control — 10/8

The verdict and the vermin

Dead people — 10/7

The twins

Larry & I at Harborview

The world according to Very Abdul

At Harborview

Pathetic Lives

johnthebasket

Anything Goes #48

Danny dollars

Invasion U.S.A., and a few more movies

Other people’s friends

And Now the News — 10/1

Dead people — 10/1

Invaders from Mars, and a few more movies

This week’s britches

Eye on AI — 9/28

American police are out of control — 9/27

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 9/27

I’m still alive

“You won’t believe how good, how fast, how cheap.”

Anything Goes #47

Two movies and then what am I supposed to say to Tim?

I Shot Andy Warhol, and a few more movies

And Now the News — 9/25

On glossy paper, opposite an ad for Gucci

American police are out of control — 9/24

Interview with the Vampire, and a few more films

Another woman

Affordable health care

Return to Telegraph Ave

Searchers 2.0, and a few more films

Dead people — 9/23

People have to push back.

Tugboat Annie, and a few more films

Pike, Mr Black Hat, and me

And Now the News — 9/22

My browser history, minus the porn — 9/21

Rough draft

Minding the Gap, and a few more movies

Cranky all day

Never again

Anything Goes #46

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 9/19

The Insect Woman, and a few more movies

A visit with Mom

Eye on AI — 9/19

More time sitting on my ass

Queen and Slim, and a few more movies

Wally gets arrested

Inglorious Basterds, and a few more movies

Breakfast for one

American police are out of control — 9/17

Dead people, and also a horse — 9/16

Listening to Free Radio Berkeley

And Now the News — 9/15

Ignoring the climate emergency — 9/15

The Informer, and a few more movies

While Mom watched

My browser history, minus the porn — 9/15

The Incredible Shrinking Man, and a few more movies

Sometimes it sucks, but what doesn’t?

The lunch, the movie, and Josh

Inception, and a few more movies

Legs, butts, and boobies

Anything Goes #45

Dear diary, 9/12/2025

Pickle dogs

Doing nothing all day

And now the news, 9/12

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 9/12

Eye on AI — 9/11

My browser history, minus the porn — 9/11

Ten things I hate about zines

Dear diary, 9/11/2025

American police are out of control — 9/10

In the Heat of the Night, and a few more movies

The evening news, with Calvin Klein and OJ Simpson

Dead people — 9/9

Ignoring the climate emergency — 9/9

Mr LaRue’s office

In Cold Blood, and a few more movies

The adoptions

Is this allowed? Isn’t there a rule?

And Now the News — 9/6

Streetcars, cats, and crickets

Anything Goes #44

Hazel’s TV

I’ll be alone.

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 9/5

Adolescence, and a few more movies

Eye on AI — 9/4

Into a mailbox

American police are out of control — 9/3

An evening with Grandma H

Headbanger

Dead people — 9/2

A big argument

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and a few more movies

Ignoring the climate emergency — 9/1

Knickknacks

The Iceman Cometh again, and several more movies

Letters to a fat slob

And Now the News — 8/31

“Stay way out there.”

My browser history, minus the porn — 8/31

Anything Goes #43

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 8/29

My mom, and my teeth

Bananas coming and going, with fish in between

I Am Curious (Yellow), and a few more films

Enormous like me

Publicly pooting

Eye on AI 👁️ — 8/28

American police are out of control — 8/27

And Now the News — 8/26

Dead people — 8/26

Ignoring the climate emergency — 8/26

Plans B, C, and D

Bad day on Telegraph Ave

The Indian Runner, and a few other films

The cockroach and the complainer

“Have you heard about my balls?”

I walk alone.

Anything Goes #42

My browser history, minus the porn — 8/23

Into the city, and back again

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 8/22

And Now the News — 8/21

White Center, Georgetown, and South Park

Eye on AI — 8/21

Adrift in Berkeley

American police are out of control — 8/21

Why she annoys me

In Bruges, Playtime, and a few more movies

The kid and the cop

Dead people — 8/19

Ignoring the climate emergency — 8/18

Fangs

My browser history, minus the porn — 8/17

The chair that couldn’t

And Now the News — 8/16

Premonition

In a Glass Cage, and a few more movies

Anything Goes #41

Something rash

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 8/15

On the scale

The new Crusades

A brief moment of What the hell?

👁️ Eye on AI — 8/14

A slice at Dagwood’s

American police are out of control — 8/13

And Now the News — 8/12

Dead people — 8/12

The end of the ache

“Jerry’s dead.”

Ignoring the climate emergency — 8/11

Have I written this before?

Too much garlic

My browser history, minus the porn — 8/11

Anything goes #40

And Now the News — 8/8

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 8/8

A fountain of news

👁️ Eye on AI — 8/7

Robert’s raise

Enough already.

And Now the News #539

Trouble on my right, trouble on my left

American police are out of control — 8/6

Roaches and righteousness

Dead people — 8/5

Ignoring the climate emergency — 8/4

The end of #23

Just another day on Telegraph Avenue

And Now the News #538

Fishless

My browser history, minus the porn — 8/3

A boy named Doug

Anything goes #39

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 8/1

As sweet as cherry pie

Eye on AI — 8/1

Let there be pain

American police are out of control — 7/30

“Working within the system” is a charade

Just another rant

More shit

Dead people — 7/29

What Lesbians Do

Weekend in Straggle, The End

Weekend in Straggle, Part 2

Ignoring the climate emergency — 7/28

Weekend in Straggle

Carlotta on Telegraph Ave

Anything goes #38

What went wrong and right, at Grillbird

Wallpaper emergency

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 7/24

Cry

Eye on AI — 7/24

The invisible Rinaldi

American police are out of control — 7/24

The third suitcase

Hoot & holler fest

Dead people — 7/22

My writings in The New Yorker

Fascist wanted, $60 p/hour

Immoral fish

Ignoring the climate emergency — 7/21

The major mistakes of my life

The trash, and the ants

They votes YES, four times.

Me in one word

Anything goes #37

Well, holy shit.

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 7/18

A day with the dead

Scientists find Uranus is surprisingly warm

Semi-hard

Eye on AI — 7/17

Lucky man

American police are out of control — 7/16

A few blocks of walking poetry and jazz

No pretenses

Ignoring the climate emergency — 7/14

Dead people — 7/12

Anything goes #36

Without words on paper

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 7/11

A brief note I’ll probably delete later

Dinner at Denny’s with Clay and Dick

American police are out of control — 7/9

Hey, that’s the mask I almost bought.

Toothache

No fish stories

Ignoring the climate emergency — 7/7

Fear of boxes

Another dose of bad news

Dead people — 7/6

What would fat Jesus do?

Anything goes #35

Most days it’s a challenge

Dreamy, stunning, strange, mean, funny, bewildering, and exactly what you make of it

Adios, San Francisco.

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 7/4

Playing by the rules

Our opponents don’t.

A chipped tooth, and a dollar discount

American police are out of control — 7/3

God’s wrath every day of my life

Watching the movie

Ignoring the climate emergency — 6/30

For now, I’d nominate this.

Dead people — 6/28

Umberto, that schmuck

Anything goes #34

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 6/27

The top moron in Moronia

Stuck in Limbo

On special assignment for the CIA

A beautiful, colorful, wide-open City of Art

The rain washes it away.

American police are out of control — 6/25

Two kicks

Reptilian cruelty & Czech sci-fi

Ignoring the climate emergency — 6/23

Incident at Rite-Aid

“Biblically, we are supposed to work.”

Judith

Dead people — 6/22/2025

Now reporting from the East Bay

Anything goes #33

Honest, Truly, I do.

Wrapped in latex

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 6/20/2025

When do we live?

A different kind of witch

Pike and Terry

What would Darwin do?

American police are out of control — 6/18/2025

A stupider America

It’s possible to over-worship.

And nothing will meaningfully improve

Coffee or cunnilingus

Ignoring the climate emergency — 6/16/2025

Guess I’ll be a Berkeley boy.

Dead people — 6/15/2025

Answering eel with yams

Anything goes #32

Protests getting out of hand

Me as the maid?

“We all miss Charlie.”

Where’s Vincent Price?

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 6/13/2025

Probably not.

Somewhere south of Market

American police are out of control — 6/11/2025

Fake maple bars

Rubber bullets

Proof of meekness

Ignoring the climate emergency — 6/9/2025

Two naps in one afternoon

One out of five

A walk in the Mission

Shirley you can’t be serious.

Anything goes #31

Haters vs decent people

Dead people — 6/8/2025

Police and poetry

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 6/6/2025

Deep knee-bends

A dull day at the diary

Adios, ABIQUIU

The assumption of guilt, with no trial

The philosophy behind the fish

A sharp strategy for the downtrodden

Saltless Blue

American police are out of control — 6/4/2025

Adios, Unusualia.

The genius of Jerry Lewis and David Lynch

Ignoring the climate emergency — 6/2/2025

The Hesitator at Falafel Salam

The odds of the end

Coach

Are we there yet?

Mildly mentally ill

Dead people — 6/1/2025

Telling bad jokes

Preventing World War 3

Letters, we get letters.

Anything goes #30

People’s Park

99 Franks and a Pekka

So who’s the rube?

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 5/30/2025

Satisfaction

Beware the purple Chewbacca

She saw the rest of me

Ashes

A known commodity

American police are out of control — 5/28/2025

Winning a battle with Mom

Something even uglier

Room wanted

Hugh Grant vs the Mormons

Drag for every persuasion

Becca

Ignoring the climate emergency — 5/26/2025

Dead people — 5/25/2025

A crowded apartment

To boldly link

Anything goes #29

How I spent my summer vacation (the end!)

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 5/23/2025

They say this cat Shaft is a bad muther—

American police are out of control — 5/21/2025

Stoners, gangsters, and bloody revenge

How I spent my summer vacation (part 3)

US Space Force will run $540-billion ‘Golden Dome’

Gangsters, bagpipes, and a werewolf

Hate Man

How I spent my summer vacation (part 2)

Ignoring the climate emergency — 5/19/2025

Zeke’s worries

Dead people — 5/18/2025

Witches, crossdressing, and Japanese baseball

That stinking bag

Anything goes #28

How I spent my summer vacation

And that’s the way it is.

Explaining it, again

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 5/16/2025

I Want to Live! And watch more movies!

Inner journey before the flight

Breakfast, bums, and fish

The Singing Detective, and a few more movies

American police are out of control — 5/14/2025

Alone, and at a distance

Working on Saturday

Audrey Backeberg rocks my world.

Ox Burger

A cacophony of none

One last argument

Ignoring the climate emergency — 5/12/2025

Our Daily Bread

Three YESses and two BIG YESses

Nothing left to say

Dead people — 5/11/2025

Anything goes #27

Eternal ‘L’

But nothing will be done.

This job apparently won’t get me laid.

I Am Not Your Negro, and a few more films

Infectious ride to Venice

Give♡BIG

Rhymes with eyes

American police are out of control — 5/7/2025

Donuts

Faster! Dumber! Meaner!

And to think that I saw it on Market Street

95% sure

Sound vibes

Introductions all around

The lawyer and the landlord

Ignoring the climate emergency — 5/5/2025

Memo from the island

Dead people — 5/4/2025

23 trains to nowhere

A loud love story

From David Lynch to Patty Hearst

Anything goes #26

America is fucked up…

Pastor-ambushed

The Lord works in mysterious ways — 5/2/2025

Grandma-sitter

A whisker past maybe

The Razor’s Edge, and a few more movies

American police are out of control — 4/30/2025

Grand Central Station

Saturday on the sidewalk

“We want to play well in the sandbox”

Ignoring the climate emergency — 4/29/2025

The future, revealed

The 51st Seattle International Film Festival

Dead people

A call I won’t return

Kielbasa omelet

Anything goes #25

Maybe someone will do something, but nobody has.

Basic drag

“Introverted,” she said.

Stephanie’s leg and ears

The Lord works in mysterious ways

The cape that wears me

A correction-pen

Great movie at a not-so-great theater

Still a stranger

Tennyson, anyone?

Guest host

Strongly-worded t-shirts

American police are out of control

Ignoring the climate emergency

Wind and shadows

Anything goes #24

Weak weed & lots of death

The news is not good, but Lynda Carter sure was pretty.

Dead people

Freeze frame

Steph’s letter to Isthmus

Ah, April…

The Lord works in mysterious ways

Mouse joust

Out of business

Head-over-heels in hate

Breakfast for Freaks

American police are out of control

Love letter on an index card

Square dance and auld lang syne

Moving back to Seattle

Ignoring the climate emergency

Visit to a previous life

“Make do.”

“Let me be clear: The authorization never says we’re going to pay you.”

Dead people

Anything goes #23

Another man’s stool

At the Couth Buzzard

Ten Days in a Mad-House

The Twinkie offense

They almost got me.

The Lord works in mysterious ways

Dinner with Dick

One sentence more than I want

This is all going to end ugly, if it ends.

“I’m a little short on the rent.”

American police are out of control

Who is John Galt?

Manifest stupidity

Bill

A ride, a movie, a meal

Yvette and Bobby

Nothing unusual so far

Once more, in Urdu

Notably absent, and other news

Anything goes #22

My penis burns with a flaming itch.

Two rides and one wait

Less money, more happy

My final conversation with ‘L’

One good, one bad, and questions in between

Bad science

As if it’s debatable

You’ve been there, even if you’ve never been there.

Four minutes to Van Ness

Very bad writing

A cruel and monstrous god

The House, at the end

Loud Day

Taking a chance on 2025

The party ought to be over.

My evening with Roy

Just a kiss

“So where’s Bob?”

Rich dunderhead, poor dunderhead

These guys who start wars around the world

Anything goes #21

11½ hours

The vivisection of Social Security

The House, at the beginning

Welcome to Aquatic Park.

Isn’t bombing an apartment building a war crime?

Oscars at the Roxie

Cancer got me this job.

Me and the mayor

Looking the other way

Mostly, though, it’s a laugh.

Shall we dance?

Great American

Forgotten men and street people

Nukes, strippers, and anarchists

A place so cold and far from home they may as well have been sent into space, nameless and forgotten

Cold

Eggs with spaghetti and meatballs

Anything goes #20

No real complaints

That sends a pretty chilling message.

Bimbo man

… and who knows where that industry’s gonna go?

Gently down the stream

Itsy-bitsy spiders

A day off-planet

How to make friends and pick up chicks

Civil society and the rule of law

Gunshots and irony

Henrietta Lacks

The Wing Luke

Grey Rabbit

Castro Street

Climb the pole and ring the bell

Butt-bars

Poop and other shit

Pins

Somali breakfast with American TV

“Keep your eyes on my fingers, all of you!”

Enough

Low-tech breakfast

Anything goes #19

Kirstin’s azalea

“Happy boy!”

Calcutta at the library

Seat selection on the bus

Eyebrows up

The memory box

“Why do you keep calling?”

Pain

Politics as usual is finished in America.

Murder on El Camino

Namu myōhō renge kyō

Messy breakfast with dogs

Ridiculous man

Apocalypto, and a few more movies

A key and a phone

Bad news gets worse

The view from a different window

Beauty technology

Hold the festering sores, please

Anything goes #18

Is my teriyaki ready?

Pike

The shop with two names

Deathwatch for ‘L’

My dear old dad was mistaken

A serious woman

A fifty dollar day!

A communist plot or something

Another glass of sludge

Is Jonathan Franzen the greatest writer who’s ever written?

Sticky fingers

L’s last days

Flirting by mail

Nothing stops him.

Wishing I was somewhere else

Anything goes #17

I’ll do anything legal for $5 an hour.

Phil and The Fixture

An unusual ride

What’s the why?

Whatever it is that makes me me

Going down dancing

The only certainty

Two fathers

My third flatmate

“Fuckin’ pandemic!”

Anything goes #16

Born to ride Donald Trump

Husbands and Wives, and a few more movies

We’re all on the list.

My third try at pho

Freckles? Really?

A movie with Leon but not quite Clay

The daily damage

Anything goes #15

A dangerous thing to say

The dancer and the driver

Tomorrow, maybe

Fresh stupidities

Poop ticket

“I just want to finish my coffee.”

Can you spot a trend here?

Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Affliction, and a few more movies

The day the bus stood still

Mom steals my fries

Hope for the hopeless, $5 ⯐

Against science and human decency

Harvey plays by the rules

Anything goes #14

Walking my Stephanie’s walk

Thank you, Senator, for your photo op.

“You won’t be forgotten.”

Thoughts on being an asshole

My second try at pho

A coup, out in the open

Medical defense

Stupidities and cruelties

My first try at pho

$20 for a spare toilet

Float with us in the world of ether

Damned good coffee

4th of July picnic

Anything goes #13

#10 — Downtown to Capitol Hill

Things could get dicey.

Perfect bus luck

Actually, you DO want to give me your Social Security number.

The best burritos in town?

Officer Frenzy

Eraserhead, and a few more films by David Lynch

A security issue with Zoom

Futility Enterprises

It’s not Greenwich Mean Time

Lights out at the Grand Illusion

Salad bar science

Five books you should oughta read

#70 — Downtown to University District

An introduction to world history

Kallie’s freakout

It’s worse than you think.

Two tales of many e-mails

The family

The new way of dying

Gray

Masturbation conversation

Anything goes #12

Waiting at three bus stops

Fake Christians and real charlatans

Visit to Seattle

Union Corners

Six and a half samurai

Come in from the cold.

Doc Bronner’s soap

Living on Police Street

And there goes Dad.

A long talk without talking

Blowing bubbles at 36

Fry bread & wojapi

The legend of Bun Man

The answer, of course, is everything.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and a few more movies

Calling 9-1-1

Our friends, the Democrats

The party house

The sneezer

Long distance is the next best thing to not being there.

Not among the P’s

Anything goes #11

Jennifer’s nuts

“Quit eyeing me, bruh.”

(observed)

Little Ethiopia

Owning the city

Endorsed by Louis Armstrong… and me!

The Human Condition, and a few more movies

Trying to be zen

The day I became lazy

Picnic for one

Momma’s little boy

Ten ideas for a better America

Two years in my van

Hawn chobs

We’re on our own.

An unhappy ending

And there goes Kevin

“Do I have to wear a mask to eat here?”

My new bidet — $15.49

Fun with cockroaches

6 foot 11

“We all have butt-heads in the family.”

More things that are bullshit

Things that are bullshit

Mark of the Beast

So many things annoy me

My brother, and my other brother

Lost Horizon (1973)

Fractional-friends

Hukkle, and a few more movies

Death on a floating bridge

The so-so book

The nosy neighbor

The Finer Diner

#128 — North Admiral to Southcenter

Twenty years or less

Mr Patel and the pud

Howl, and a few more movies

Corporations are a problem we can solve.

Smooth afternoon

An offer

I guess it’s time to wake up…
by Joe Gallo

I’m leaning toward Tuesday

A Satanic curse

Anything goes #9

Canceling the cable

Rotten apples

Everyone needs a hobby

Two Georges

Worries for breakfast

Technical difficulties

The last rites

My Special K pinch

The big questions

The Christmas party

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