The following picture comes to us courtesy of Matthew Downing, our cultural correspondent… This photograph was taken at a truck stop in Tennessee. The cigarette butts in the urinal provide a nice cherry on top of the shit splatter cake, don’t they? Continue reading
Author Archives: Justin
Another Texting Fiasco – Elizabeth Heather
The winds of fate have blessed us with another texting story, dear reader. It will be interesting to see if this story generates as much controversy as our first texting story did. This tale involves Elizabeth and her ex-boyfriend whom we will mercifully refer to simply as “G”. “G” was Elizabeth’s first boyfriend and has/had … Continue reading
Oh Deer…
When I was still in high school I had a part-time job working at Lucky (which became Albertson’s and is Sav-Mart now I think) as a bagger. Driving home one night (during a heavy rainstorm) after working the 5-10 pm shift, I came up behind a beat-up old redneck truck crawling along near Collins Lake. … Continue reading
Pinnacles National Monument Report – Finally!
I’ve wanted to go to Pinnacles National Monument for so long that I can’t even remember how I originally became interested. At first I was going to go with my ex-fiance, Katie, over Thanksgiving 2004 or 2005 (I can’t remember which), but something came up. So, the visit was rescheduled. And then something came up … Continue reading
El Presidente (or I don’t know how I keep getting invited to these things)
As I always say, it’s good to know people… Tonight proved no exception as we scored an invite to dinner with the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, at the Fairmont. Tables were $3000 each and we got in for free – not bad… Here we are mingling before the big doings: El Presidente gave … Continue reading
Houses: An Investment? Or A Trap?
Housing prices in the United States are falling nationwide; but in the minds of most house buyers, it is still a bull market. They have lived with rising prices for so long they now take it for granted that that is just the way things work. “House prices always go up in the long run,” … Continue reading
Funktown
Rudolph Henderson was one of Oakland’s leading cocaine dealers during the 1980’s, supplying the city’s biggest drug chieftains, before being sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1989. He was arrested two years before in an investigation that netted more than 82 pounds of cocaine, Henderson’s $3 million dollar estate in Sonoma County, two Oakland … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 