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Saying nothing
“Nah.”
Safety Not Guaranteed, and six more movies
The mystery of the stink
Between barfings
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and six more movies
My gift to Domino’s Pizza
The wheelchair observation
Not a plea for help
Unlabelled
It’s only wasted money.
Pink Flamingos, and six more movies
No Christmas, 2022
No Christmas, 1995
Twister on Christmas Eve
Thought a lot about not
The laws against you
Southern Comfort, and 6½ more movies
Xmas angst and depression
Oh, the frickin’ humanities.
Rear Window, and six more movies
Your government, breaking your heart
Doctor’s orders
No holiday bird
Klezmer Maniac
Mom’s not dead.
Wavy Gravy and Norikonoko
Personal Services, and six more movies
Sticky thighs
A “Berkeley liberal”
The church youth group
Uncle Kyle’s house
Paris is Burning, and six more movies
Listening to Jasper
Father of none
“Oooh, fresh bagels!”
Rain
The Driver, and six more movies
Lunch with Danny, dinner with Josh
Fenced out
Walk with a friend
Pills
Am I street legal?
Trevor and Gerry
Shun them.
The Wiz, and six more movies
The informant
Peanut butter on meat
Nine letters
Doughballs and Sundance
Mystery Train, and six more movies
Andrea and Shannon
Water damage
Unsigned
Walkabout, and six more movies
The free speech ghetto
Clandestine sandwiches
Permit to Place Object on Sidewalk
Charley Varrick, and six more movies
Nobody’s touching me, including me.
No shrimp, no doodles
“And how’s life?”
JoJo Rabbit, and six more movies
Diane & Jeffrey
Not much of a story
A few cards short of 52
“Rice, steamed vegetables, and more rice, to go, please.”
Dumb and deadly daily decisions
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, and eight more movies
Mad dog
Free rides
I’d rather be alone.
The Parallax View, and six more movies
Being a woman
Flatmates’ Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, 2022
Faces
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, and six more movies
Declining an invitation
Not a Hallmark movie
A walk halfway home
The Laughing Policeman, and six more movies
My favorite bum
Till the end of time
Alone is the baseline.
A Man Called Adam, four more movies, and two TV shows
Everything is bullshit.
Farmers’ Market Follies
Cops and Christians
No knowing who’s nuts
Double feature and second thoughts
Lunch at the Golden Spoon
Government shutdown
The Girl Hunters, and six more movies
① No checks, and ② Shut up already.
Three seconds of my life
Drugs Are Really Excellent
Catch My Soul, and six more movies
Ocean People
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
Five questions from Mom
Cinemax unscrambled
My good deed for November
Mr Rogers and the Brick Hut
The Freakmaker and Gattaca and five more movies
‘L’
Getting to know me
Suburbia, and six more movies
“How much?”
What’ll do me in, I wonder?
This is not America
It’s a Gift, and six more movies
Climb every motherfucking mountain
Lots of bleakness
Rescued
Looper and Outland, and five more movies
“You sell hot dogs!”
Dawn
An old man’s good old days
Brick and Diary of a Mad Housewife, and five more movies
Handshake
Perpetually unimpressed
Never to return
Office Space, and six more movies
Incoming wounded
Just someone with troubles
The end of October
Happiness and Passengers, and five more movies
A dog’s worries
Following my cucumbers
There was no struggle.
“Do you know these people?”
Marijuana cookies, $2
The Howl of Winterland, and six more movies
Gas station stories
Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time, and seven more movies
A bike and a dozen bugbombs
An optional trip
Story time with Gertrude
Ten Days in a Mad-House
No boners for her
Here, lady, want a candy bar?
The Alamo and Coherence, and five more movies
Terry’s new job
Sidewalk closed
A 50/50 mix of semen and dishwashing soap
Wild Style, and six more movies
Not a moment I’m proud of
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and six more movies
Too much sleep
White like me
A gig I didn’t get
Ketchup and mustard art
You missed a corner.
Stranger than Paradise, and six more movies
The man whose name I’ve forgotten
Almost lunch with Mom
Ha! I got the last word!
A brief history of fish
An evening with Loki and Martha
Mom’s birthday party
Night of the Comet, and six other movies
Two madmen, and two dreams
Visit to Anderson Valley
The Sparks Brothers, and six more movies
My ride home from Dick’s
An untaped schlong
“Yeah, I think I’m OK.”
Baseball at my brother’s house
The Holy Mountain, and six more movies
Dean’s chili
Eddie Anderson at the Oaks
Extremely unsanitary
Sneakers, and six more movies
Dick’s under the lights
At Marion’s apartment
Santa Sangre, and six more movies
Mr Irion surprises me.
Books and breakfast
Comes a Bright Day, five more movies, and a TV show
Mostly it’s links.
Purple and hairy, and thanks, Hollie.
My fly-bike
Flea ride
The Candy Snatchers, and six more movies
A lot of rot about freedom
One-word newscast
The verdict and the vermin
The Man Who Sleeps, and six more movies
The twins
Pants and pubes
The world according to Very Abdul
Collapse, and six more movies
Pathetic lives
Ten infernos
Danny’s dollars
The meaning of life
Other people’s friends
Mom’s photos
This week’s britches
Is that all it takes to make myself an ass?
“You won’t believe how good, how fast, how cheap.”
Winter Kills, and five more movies
Two movies and then what am I supposed to say to Tim?
Decent human beings
On glossy paper, opposite an ad for Gucci
Four buses to breakfast and back
Another woman
All the President’s Men, and six more movies
Return to Telegraph Ave
Bagdad Cafe, and six more movies
“Your head, man.”
People have to push back.
Mr Black Hat and me
Enjoys long walks
Fear Strikes Out, and six more movies
Cranky all day
Old Asian ladies
Never again
Dhoom, and six more movies
Mugwort pillow
The lady who folded herself
Wally gets arrested
Native Son, and six more movies
Breakfast for one
My good deed for September
Spy Kids, and six more movies
Listening to Free Radio Berkeley
Going abstract
A day at the ball park
While Mom watched
The Man Who Fell to Earth, and six more movies
Feels like a victory
Breakfast at JJ’s with Jay
Burgers about town
The lunch, the movie, and Josh
Tidying up, just in case
Legs, butts, and boobies
Well, smash my stereotypes.
Doing nothing all day
Burn it all down.
Ten things I hate about zines
Someday Soon
The evening news, with Calvin Klein and OJ Simpson
Almost “Shut the hell up”
Mr LaRue’s office
A Report on the Party and Guests, and six more movies
Is this allowed? Isn’t there a rule?
Strike etiquette
Streetcars, cats, and crickets
Good girls
Far away
An evening with Grandma H
Bezos and Mussolini
A big argument
The Stunt Man, and six more movies
Knickknacks
Letters to a fat slob
Literally, the end times
Pontypool, Psycho, and five other movies
New houses, but not for you
“Stay way out there.”
Bananas coming and going, with fish in between
“Free to a good home!”
El Dorado, and six more movies
Pooting publicly
Young’s
Color lines
That was a pretty good day.
Friday
Only slightly odd and awkward
Thursday
Wednesday
Three lunches
Monday and Tuesday
Bad day on Telegraph Ave
The cockroach and the complainer
I walk alone.
Dropping the ball.
Into the city, and back again
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, five more movies, and two TV shows
The Lobby
Adrift in Berkeley
Dinner for three
Curbing the bus
Why she annoys me
Motoring with Mitch
Go straight instead
The kid and the cop
Fangs
No surprises
The chair that couldn’t
The criss-cross exercise
Premonition
Nod and say nothing.
Something rash
Killing cones
The new Crusades
Absolutely not ready
A brief moment of What the hell?
A slice at Dagwood’s
Tumbling
“Jerry’s dead.”
Too much garlic
How it all ends
A fountain of news
No bus to the bus barn
Enough already.
Breaking Away, and six more movies
Trouble on my right, trouble on my left
An apology, and several complaints
Roaches and schmucks
Retirement home solutions
Three tales from Telegraph Avenue
Studying for the short bus
Fishless
Saturday’s breakfast
A boy named Doug
Hundreds, maybe thousands of ants
As sweet as cherry pie
The Day the Earth Caught Fire, and six more movies
Just another rant
What Lesbians Do
Asphalt picnic
Getting to Georgetown
Ran, and six more movies
The taken shake
Carlotta on Telegraph Ave
Driving the short bus
Wallpaper emergency
The Whole Shootin’ Match, and six more movies
Cry
That’s life on the bus.
Trumpet solo
Another breakfast without breakfast
The invisible Rinaldi
Badlands, and six more movies
Hoot and holler fest
Assault on Precinct 13, and six more movies
Immoral fish, no surprise
Three niqabs
The major mistakes of my life
Me in one word
Community Automotive
Eleven taps on the shoulder
Q: The Winged Serpent, and six more by Larry Cohen
30 mph
Five, and six more movies
Well, holy shit.
Another fine breakfast with my family
A day with the dead
“Sorry, I’m slow.”
Semi-hard
How to not make friends
Lucky man
Stoner
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, and six more movies
A few blocks of walking poetry and jazz
What the hell and why not?
No pretenses
Troll Hunter, and six more movies
Without words on paper
Sharing a house with Dean
Dinner at Denny’s with Clay and Dick
Bone: A Bad Day in Beverly Hills, and six more movies
Baxter, and six more movies
“For best service, touch screen and check in here.”
No fish stories
Wake in Fright, and six more movies
Fear of boxes
A pee before leaving
What would fat Jesus do?
That boom boom boom shit
Most days it’s a challenge
In the Bedroom, and six more movies
“That’s the fam,” she said.
Turkey dinner
Packing and moving
Playing by the rules
Deep Cover, and six more movies
Anti-Santa
A chipped tooth, and a dollar discount
Cranky Thursday
God’s wrath every day of my life
Bea
Umberto
Big Fan, Green Room, Next of Kin, and four more movies
Stuck in Limbo
“They’re doing their job.”
On special assignment for the CIA
The woman from Woodstock
Two kicks
Limbo, and six more movies
Incident at Rite-Aid
The rules of riding the bus
Judith
Moon, and six more movies
Now reporting from the east bay
Room in shared house, with dick
Sarah-Katherine and the second bathroom
Pike and Terry
Sleeping Dogs, and six more movies
Family reunion
What would Darwin do?
An island
Rent liberation
Rocky Horror Picture Show, and six other movies
Screams
Guess I’ll be a Berkeley boy.
Me as the maid?
Mesa of Lost Women, and six better movies
Mitchum as Marlowe, and five more movies
Probably not.
“I just want to finish my coffee.”
Somewhere south of Market
Cranky old fart on Monday
Fake maple bars
Library guy’s library guide
Please. Stop. Talking.
Proof of meekness
Friday report
Two naps in one afternoon
Giants & Toys, and six more movies
A walk in the Mission
Wednesday report
Poetry and police
High Life, and six better movies
A dull day at the diary
The day the bus stood still
The philosophy behind the fish
Talk talk, chop chop, sizzle sizzle
Adios, ABIQUIU
Three bus rides, and one train ride
The Whole Wide World, and six more movies
Dollar Tree bonus burritos
Without spaghetti sauce, please.
Hank Williams with wheat toast and coffee, please.
The Last Starfighter, and six more movies
Bathroom bugs, the resistance, Applebee’s, and fentanyl
Six out of seven thumbs up
Lazy cheapskatery
The ten-minute tax
Omicron, and six more movies
Punishment Park, and six more movies
Cleopatra without Elizabeth Taylor, and six more movies
Yesterday’s mother
Bodega daydreams
Skin Game, There Are No Fakes, and five sucky movies
Rock-bottom prices
The news on TV
The toaster, the microwave, and the smoke alarm
“Out out out, please.”
Nakano Spy School, and six more movies
Huckleberried alive
Interruption machines
Intentional rats
Free human dignity. Come and get it.
City Lights, Junebug, and five other movies
One fine day on the C
The facts of unsalted butter
The Quiller Memorandum and six more movies
Party of eight
A tale of two burgers, one which wasn’t and another which was
Please make payment in full.
Rockin’ Metropolis, Trouble in Paradise, and five other movies
Poop and television
Allergic to garlic
Out of talk
Manfish and Primer, and 5 or 6 more movies
Fat walking
Two books I don’t recommend
Our fifth flatmate
An Angel at My Table, and six more movies
At the Screaming Baby Library
Adios, Unusualia.
Well, half a damn, maybe.
Mildly mentally ill
No cream cheese left behind
Bullshit, and bite me.
27 minutes
Astounding journeys, $2.75
Meet the flatmates
Mrs Rigby’s
My great escape
The Sheridan misconception
Slumber party
A crappy update, maybe once weekly
Big sky country
24-hour toe service
Letters, we get letters
Seattle or bust
People’s Park
Refusing to prosecute Trump is a political act.
North Beach and Berkeley
Ground rules for my family
Satisfaction
The damage deposit
She saw the rest of me
No vampires allowed
A known commodity
May I be briefly and predictably grumpy?
Good corporate citizenship?
Her magic wand
Room wanted
Ashes
Trendy cookies
Drag for every persuasion
A crowded apartment
A shoebox of pitchers
Luke something: something
How I spent my summer vacation, part 4
How I spent my summer vacation, part 3
How I spent my summer vacation, Part 2
How I spent my summer vacation, Part 1
Too many jackets
Inner journey before the flight
Questions from Quartz
Breakfast, bums, and fish
Douglas shrugged
Keep your distance, keep your masks.
Not-quite connecting with another human
Working on Saturday
A cacophony of none
To the tune of the 1812 Overture
One last argument
Our Daily Bread
Easier than wrapping paper
Nothing left to say
Steph’s letter to Isthmus
N-words out the window
Love letter on an index card
Infectious ride to Venice
Mongolia to the rescue!
Donuts
She’s on every shelf.
And to think that I saw it on Market Street
Prodigal son, and all that
Sound vibes
Field of Dreams, and six more movies
The lawyer and the landlord
Things usually work out, until they don’t.
23 trains to nowhere
Breakfast at the Diner — #56
A loud love story
Invalid baptisms
Grandma-sitter
An accidental ass
Grand Central Station
The Lair of the White Worm, and six more movies
Saturday on the sidewalk
“Let’s keep in touch.”
The future, revealed
A perfect shitstorm
A call I won’t return
Help, Help, the Globolinks!, and six more movies
Basic drag
It’s as easy as that.
The cape that wears me
That wacky old dude, ha-ha.
A correction-pen
Patterns, and six more movies
Still a stranger
Tennyson, anyone?
Guest host
Out of work
Wind and shadows
Weak weed
Ah, April
Out of business
Subject: Remember this?
Head-over-heels in hate
Riding with my dead brother
Square dance and auld lang syne
Model Minority, and six more movies
Please do not publish my name.
Visit to a previous life
Call it history instead.
“Make do.”
Grey Rabbit
The Twinkie offense
Unexpected good news
One sentence more than I want
Shadowlands, and six more movies
“I’m a little short on the rent.”
Trump for Dummies
Beauty technology
Manifest stupidity
Barge Chilling Beach
Bill
The Fundamental Fuck-Up
Nothing unusual so far
Tubthumping
Less money, more happy
Rectuma, and six more
Check engine
One good, one bad, and questions in between
It’s gonna get way worse.
Four minutes to Van Ness
How to create terrorists
A cruel and monstrous god
Breakfast at the Diner #55
Loud Day
Do the right thing.
Just a kiss
Trump’s obituary
Rich dunderhead, poor dunderhead
What Republicans fear
11½ hours
Station Eleven, and six more
Welcome to Aquatic Park
Not a pretty view
At the Oscars
Murder on El Camino
Looking the other way
The next COVID variant
Shall we dance?
Phobias and mental and emotional malfunctions
Forgotten men and street people
Seven movies
Cold
Breakfast at the Diner #54
No real complaints
Peace and loud quiet
Blowing stuff up
No more New Yorker
Itsy-bitsy spiders
Same as me
A day off-planet
Effort and patience and generic dish soap
Gunshots and irony
Seven movies
Castro Street
Mustard toast
Poop and other shit
Smooth afternoon
Enough
Some links, a few stories
Calcutta at the library
The Christmas party
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