How Me, Xander, Mikey and Some Stoners from the Suburbs Saved the World

Ch.3 The Road to Mount Umunum
 
“Hap!” I hear Alexandra scream. I turn and I can see her body being grabbed by a tall bald zombie with a thick mustache and I pull my pistol but the chambers empty and I pull and scream but my feet are stuck to the ground.  There are more of [...]

How Me, Xander, Mikey and Some Stoners From the Suburbs Saved the World

Ch.2   The Bloody Dark Hours of the Night
 
And at first it seemed all my fears might be unwarranted.  The night was still and quiet.  Too quiet and I sat nervously chain smoking and staring out into the night and the roses and the starless sky.  It was only ten-thirty at this point and it [...]

How Me, Xander, Mikey and Some Stoners from the Suburbs Saved the World

“Oh don’t worry, we have a plan.”  I used to say and nod and wink at a plan that I never took seriously.
 
And maybe thats because we didn’t really have a plan.  We had stoned conversations while watching Romero movies.  I don’t know why I’m writing this now.  but its three in the morning right [...]

The Adventures of Murph Jackson, Private Investigator

Episode 5: A Midsummernight’s Dream
                                   or
        Burning in Whiskey, Drowning in the Bay
 
Ch.1
I take a hard drag of my cigarette and for some reason I feel bad for it, I don’t know why really.  There’s no one [...]

Bus Ride Conversation

 
Conversation #3
 
 
Its somewhere around midnight and I’m headed into Palo Alto down the El Camino to try and get some work done.  There’s a tired looking asian kid I’ve seen around a few times and he’s asleep when I get in and sit behind him and I’m trying to get some writing done on a [...]

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Its almost three a.m. and I’m staring down the El Camino smoking a cigarette and thinking about Bukowski.
 
And there are riots in the Congo at soccer games because one of the players used witch craft.
 
And the Vice-Presidential candate tried to fire a city librarian for refusing to censor books.
 
And Kurt Vonnegut’s dead now.  George Carlin [...]

The Adventures of Murph Jackson, Private Investigator Episode 4

Episode 4: A Long Way to an Empty Bottle
 
                                     or
 
                 How to Loose a Corpse in 10 Days
 
 
 
Ch.1
 
The loneliest time of night is around four in the morning.  Maybe I don’t [...]

R.I.P. Mitch Hedberg

A couple years ago, comedian Mitch Hedberg died.  It turns out there was one more unreleased CD that had been recorded.  Its available to listen to at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9km-UcDOhuc&feature=PlayList&p=61AFF4CA3F08D645&index=0&playnext=1  
I wish I had a full article to write for this, but its Mitch Hedberg, the mother fucker speaks for himself.
 
“If I was the headless horseman’s horse, I would [...]

Einstein’s Cattle

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
–Peter Ustinov
 
Its somewhere around four o’clock in the morning right now and I haven’t really slept in almost two days now.  I don’t know if I really know why.  There’s a slow and steady sinking feeling in my stomach and [...]

Politics and Patriotism

This week has been the Democratic National Convention.  And there’s been alot of excietment, alot of talk about change and the future and I don’t know.  It all sounds so empty to me now.  And maybe its just that I”m sitting here in San Jose, watching cars and pedestrians strolling past the cafe and it [...]