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What cops say becomes "the news"
News & Links: Saturday, September 30, 2023
Science!
Home
News & Links: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Ten minutes of waiting
Manchester by the Sea, and a few more movies
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, and a few more movies
Kagi
News & Links: Friday, September 22, 2023
District 9, and a few more movies
Ménilmontant, and a few more moviesAlmost an adventure
Delicatessen, and a few more movies
Things I don't give a damn about
An Unearthly Child, and a few more movies
Crashing
News & Links: Friday, September 15, 2023
A text message from Mom
News & Links: Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Am I a butt-head?
Three women
Protecting us from the pigeons
Durk & Sandy & Skye & Natalee
News & Links: Saturday, September 9, 2023
How to open a plastic container of butter
News & Links: Thursday, September 7, 2023
My career at Whitewater Marine
They Live, and a few more movies
News & Links: Monday, September 4, 2023
Opium, marijuana, heroin, cocaine, LSD, PCP, meth, molly, speed, and fentanyl
News & Links: Sunday, September 3, 2023
Sweet lollipop
News & Links: Thursday, August 31, 2023
No chance for a cheeseburgerTeaching children not to learn
The Devil and Miss Jones, and a few more movies
Aurora Avenue
News & Links: Sunday, August 27, 2023
Never do a stranger's laundry
Outsource this.
News & Links: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Morning pessimism
Naked, and a few more movies
Who Killed Captain Alex?, and a few more movies
A rat
News & Links: Saturday, August 19, 2023
And there goes Joe.
Please don't call.
News & Links: Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Emergency at the bus station
Doctor Who (first season, 2005)
American Revolution 2, and a few more movies
News & Links: Monday, August 14, 2023
Less pessimistically, there's this
Star Trek and Doctor Who
News & Links: Saturday, August 12, 2023
Freaked, and a few more films
Leggings
"Please deliver to upstairs porch."
The Unknown Marx Brothers, and a few more movies
News & Links: Thursday, August 10, 2023
Strange silence
12:01, and a few more movies
Three bus rides, with editorials
News & Links: Tuesday, August 8, 2023
And I laughed.
Ishi, the Last Yahi, and a few more movies
Revelation 21:8
Escape from a stale hell
So I bailed.
News & Links: Saturday, August 5, 2023
Tunnel Vision, and a few more films
News & Links: Thursday, August 3, 2023
And there goes Margaret.
Seven Saturdays every week
White Lotus, and a few more movies
Life advice from a high school dropout
The sneeze
The legend of Bun Man
Brain Donors, and a few other movies
The Thing from Another World, and a few more movies
News & Links: Monday, July 31, 2023
Visit to UPS Park
A prefect record
$50,000 for Donald Trump
Everything I own
News & Links: Saturday, July 29, 2023
Breakfast at the Diner #58
Our Song
Wasting his life on drugs
The Honeymoon Killers, and a few more movies
Denise at 22
News & Links: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Dark Days, and a few other movies
Dems and Republicans and hot dogs
Just one question
Three ham sandwiches
News & Links: Monday, July 24, 2023
"So I changed my life."
The body under the blanket
At the movies with QAnon
News & Links: Sunday, July 23, 2023
At the Circus, and a few more movies
Three items of little or no consequence
News & Links: Friday, July 21, 2023
Last word
What's this guy up to?
Ghosts with Shit Jobs, and a few more movies
The kitchen talk show
News & Links: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Sweeps
At the bus stop
Grey Rabbit
Hippie in a puddle of blue
News & Links: Sunday, July 16, 2023
Searching for Bobby Fischer, and a few more movies
"Are you a dirty old man?"Preacher & the Band
The News: Friday, July 14, 2023
Assorted cynicism and pessimism
Thanks for the zine, but it ain't much.
The news: Thursday, July 13, 2023
Emily the Criminal, and a few more movies
"For use on Doug"
An open-door policy
The News: Tuesday, July 11. 2023
On yesterday's news
The News: Monday, July 10. 2023
A good guy
Good, bad, and way overpriced eats
Anything legal, by mailBad science
The News: Saturday, July 8. 2023
Yes, you CAN run away from your problems.
The News: Friday, July 7, 2023
First, the fireworks
Then, the soupThe News: Thursday, July 6, 2023
Bo Peep
The Chevy across the street
Simply, no.The News: Tuesday, July 4, 2023
The Shadow Out of Time, and a few more movies
Getting ready to scream again
The Car, and six more movies
Cert requests
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The list of the things that I will not miss
The News: Saturday, July 1, 2023
A slight plumbing problem
Arguments by mail
The News: Thursday, June 29, 2023
This page gets grumpier as it goes.
The News: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Just an old guy ranting
Two hours and twenty minutes
Cracked and shattered, eating pastries alone
The News: Saturday, June 24, 2023
The News: Thursday, June 22, 2023
A little tipsy but no trouble
This, that, and the other thing
The News: Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Out of whack
The bus that stopped
Lost in a cemetery
No pertinent experience
False starts
The News: Saturday, June 17, 2023
Trump Punishment PoolA beautiful place we visited
The News: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Epilogue
The News: Monday, June 12, 2023
The tall, skinny, ugly man
The News: Sunday, June 11, 2023
A rational, reasonable conversationA beige cream with leg hairs
Hillary & Donald
The Death of Dick Long, and six more movies
Leaning on a telephone pole
Today's smoke will blow away.
The News: Friday, June 9, 2023
Thinking about walking
The view at twilight
Invasion of the Body Snatchers:
A book and two movies
Things that are bullshit
Mostly letters
Just the links, ma'am
Urgent calls
Breakfast at the Diner #57
Going through the motions
"See you tomorrow."
Funerals and picnics
An hour in Oakland
Knock, knock. Who's there?
Graffiti and a ghost
The edited version
How to make friends and pick up chicks
Mr Previn
The conversation
Togas and tomato sandwiches
Getting your act together
Best and worst bus rides of the weekThe loudest motherfucker
Man on the Moon, and six more moviesParanoia runs deep
The libertarian in me
A salad at home
Blood, sweat, and adrenaline
A movie that changed my life
A hummer at the movies
Check your messages, check your bags
An open door
"This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender."A different kind of shaker
Salt & salt
Big boxesMaybe it's better they stop pretending.
The salesman
Me and Mom, again
The moral of the story is, lose your morals.A good drenched
Screw the rotting corpse of Billy Graham.Let there be links
Blown away
Holy moly!
Brush your teeth, kids.Monday, Monday
A pretty woman, and a bum
The perfect cubicle
Inspector Benji
The NeverEnding Story, and six more movies
All serious and sanctimonious
This morning's breakfast
Ashley's big dinner
The rules, from the roof
Three bus rides
Knock, knock
To funeral, or not to funeral
My favorite maniac
A beer from the heart
Happy that way
Black and loud
My privacy settings
A ringing phone
Five women in one day
Nothing much
Too much mail
Flank and Larry
The last rites
Attack of the mouth-breather
"You gotta bring your cell phone, Doug."
Vote for yourself!
Sincerely, goodbye.
Short stuff
Three bums
Moaning, barking, hammering
Fire on the fourth floor
Screaming obscenities at the heavens
Party at People's Park
Rearranging the furniture
The only thing better than saying 'no'
Gentle bossa nova
The Rose Bud Movie Palace
The very slightest of slights
Secret words
22 Fillmore
"Can I sleep at your house tonight?"
Eight hours pay for three hours standing around
April of '96 in San Francisco
Abortion in the Bible
Mom Is Cooking
Your pizza will be ready in July.
Channel 7 van man
Buildings and buildings, blocks and blocks
Too many of us
She Be Bonkers
Jerry and Jesus
Sadomasochism and me
My part of town
Puppy Dog Syndrome
Welcome to western civilization!
Me and Will Shatner
Presence.
A tale of two cities
When your dreams exceed your budgetTax time
Clouds over the island
So many reasons to be blue
Almost Famous, and six more movies
Poetry on the Ave
Crummy old mountains
A question for the Councilmember
Laughing at tragedy
Jughead crossing
This is what a movie theater should be.
A month of breakfasts with Mom
Not at all a date
The Day Mars Invaded Earth, and six more movies
Out of the fog
A poor choice of words
An angry woman
Bowling with Jesus
Walking the new neighborhood
Under the fire escape
"You're here."
Not even a drip
Frolicking alone
Changing the margins
View from the veranda
My plans for the weekend
Living lousy for less
Note from the mailroom
It's Jim Cranston Day!
The worst McDonald's in the world
Everyone else's mess
Free pastries on the bus
A living place
Scent of a man
Didn't see that coming
Hot dogs and burritos
La Jetée, and six more movies
Bad doctoring, doc.
Utne Reader, MRR, and The Match
Him, Claudius
Arrivals and departures
An invitation to what?Five days on, then two days off
That darn Jasper!
Another day in Berkeley
Talking politics
Thataway comes the C bus.
Sisyphus with a mop
Nobody has their crap together.
Open wide
Morvern Callar, and six more movies
Jacque's invitation
Rivers of living water
Baked, beaned, and burned
Hello, and good morning, and good night.
50¢
Incident at Burger King
Riot in Cell Block 11, and six more movies
At Mabel's place
Salad play-by-play
"Yucky stuff"
Brenda, Bradley, and Barbara
Marijuana and erythromycin
Two breakfasts with Mom
The Silent Partner, and six more movies
Life, death, and anonymity
Loud fart in a quiet office
Dinner and a double feature
Stiffed by Quimby's
Not my best moment
The Periphery Project, and six more movies
Walking pneumonia
Comes a Horseman, and six more movies
Still sick, sorry.
New hire
"[Something something] difficult."
Cowguy, and other bus adventures
Christmas tree capitalism
These are not normal times.
Why does it have to be so difficult?
Famous last words
Long Weekend, and six more movies
The man from McDonald's
Sans Soleil, and six more moviesA five-hour dinner
Re-refrigerated salads
Apollo 10½, and six more movies
I deserve worse.
Millionaires' Island
Duck Soup, and six more movies
Honesty in government
I can't quite get there.
A stranger's dead uncle
The woman in pajamas
Nap time's over.
Guacamole and glass
The third signs
An acceptable variant
McLibel, and six more movies
Still perfectly edible
Cinnamon
Three personal references
Riding the bus with cops
Farewell to the Post Office
Hallmark Holiday
A very big machine
No answers, FishGuy
Welcome to the Post Office
A card with no words
"Here ya go, hun."
My theory of hygiene
Low-tech breakfast
A goddess from Walhalla
A moment of violence
The washcloth
Paranoia runs deep.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Heat simmers, and U/A sucks
Getting ready for work
One of the best and most liberating things
What's Up, Doc? and six more movies
Consider yourself nudged
Two bad rides on BART
Earth Abides
Queen of Snakes, and six more movies
Listening to pirate radio
Not today, thanks.
Off the fritz
Empire of the Sun, and six more movies
Inspected and alone
CopWatchBarely there for breakfast
A brand new start of it, New York, New York
Planet of the Apes, and six more movies
A fine rat
Fondue Fred
My morning with Dean
Street Krishnas
The Golden Gate
Never steal a pirate's galoshes
Ghost World, and six more movies
The street preacher
50¢ worth of crime
Bus luck
Henry Fool, and six more movies
"The Bill of Rights is mostly bullshit."
Mysteries of the dumpster
Playing in the rain
Straight Time, and six more movies
A big fat failure
Man down
Scrabble and RunningRope, and six more movies
February 13
Gerry goes to jail
Butt-bars
Beaned
Two great movies, four good movies, and one crappy movie
Mr Menthol
The old church
Seriously wrong
Cheeseburger, fries, and salad
Wishing her the very best
Yes, God, Yes, and six more movies
Fingerprinted
Remembrances in the rain
Silent Running, and six more movies
Stop lying to me.
Graham cracker slumgullion
The dancer and the driverIntruder alert
Rififi, and six more movies
Midget and Stickman
Quite a lot of foodForbidden, and six more movies
An invitation to tea
The people in charge
Inquiries and investigations
Mailbag
Dolls, and six more movies
Goodbye, damn it.
The executive chef
Brief Encounter, and six more movies
Tannenbaum massacre
Brenda
Mom steals my fries
Inarguably fucked up in the head
Worms and tomatoes
"Like hell you will."
Walking my Stephanie's walk
Face/Off, and six more movies
Hamburger dream
All I ask of the future
Woodstock, and six more movies
What are we celebrating, really?
Riding the water taxi, for free
Distance is my favorite family value.
Some bus rides
The year's final pettiness
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