Posts from the ‘stories’ category

The Night Of The Amorous Parking Meters

I had dinner the other night with my bestest friend in the world at some pretentious French fusion eatery that had the nerve to have “farm”…

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The Night That Changed My Life

The worst injury I’ve ever had was having my skull cracked open and my brain damaged. It changed everything about me forever. I had to drop…

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The Missing Shoe

What was a pretty little white girl doing in the middle of the ghetto? She was lithe and fragile, pale and pretty, and she had just…

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The Category of Parades

I was at a dinner party the other night and I was feeling especially argumentative. I’m usually contrary and cantankerous, but for some reason, that night,…

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Mi Salvador

I was sitting on my bed reading a book – The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, which isn’t as good as Snow Crash, but it’s still…

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The Rules

This story is not the worst that I’ve been in trouble in my lifespan, but it was the first. It was then that I realized that…

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Funny Strange

I was at a store of many departments browsing for some shoes; not that I needed shoes since the ones on my feet were perfectly adequate,…

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The Left Hand Is Evil!

When I was a wee lass, just entering formal education, after graduating from eating paste, my teacher thought there was something wrong with me. There was,…

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The Montebello Incident

I’ve done some pretty stupid things in my life; some things I regret and some things that were just plain idiotic. I’m not proud of them,…

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Public Service Announcement

I live in Los Angeles.  Living in Los Angeles means that, inevitably, I know people who work in the entertainment industry, the poor saps.  A friend…

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The World’s Dumbest Cat

Since I boldly declared myself the owner of the world’s dumbest cat, I suppose that I owe some explanation as to why I think I’m worthy…

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Carjack Defense System

Part One: The Wrath of the Voll One night, for reasons unknown to me, I ended up at a family-style Italian restaurant chain called Buca Di…

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Shroooooms.

As I’ve probably already detailed somewhere in this here blog, I have an affinity for teh drugs. I like them. Sometimes too much. Especially uppers of…

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Now With More Friendly!

My hair is partially pink right now due to Operation Pink Hair (see the blog Operation Pink Hair). It’s only partially pink because, regrettably, my arms…

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Punching Walls

There is a man at my place of employment who is angry all the time; red-alert woop! woop!, Yosemite Sam angry. He is so angry that…

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Operation Pink Hair

You have the right to a fair trial by a jury of your peers. It sounds like a good idea until you see it in practice.…

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Blow Things Up Day

Los Angeles: densely populated land of the desert in the middle of a persistent drought. Not really optimal conditions for lighting things afire and shooting them…

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