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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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