A long time ago, I had an imaginary friend who was a clown. Then he shape-shifted into a ghost, then into my parents, then into a gaggle of coiled cobras that happened to look and act a lot like my parents. But first he was a clown. His makeup ran and his tongue tended to […]
Writing
My Correspondence with Publix over Endorsing Adam Putnam
Dear CEO Todd Jones, I am a second generation Floridian. I am 60 years old. I’ve been shopping at Publix my entire life. Publix is by far the closest grocery store to my house, but I won’t go there again as long as Publix is supporting Adam Putnam as a candidate. He has stated that he […]
The Life of a Nimble Cruiser
I’ve lived in LA for as long as the year is old, minus one day, and I’ve loved almost every second of it. Per another cliche, I was spending a lot of time inside vehicles. And although biking may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Big Orange […]
Spite Vomit
Once, while I was living in Korea, I thought I was going to die. Okay, that’s not true. Several times while I was living in Korea I thought I was going to die. On two separate occasions the public transit I was riding crashed. The air raid sirens went off every other day the summer […]
Creative Activism: Ideas for the Maladjusted
Recently, the 50th anniversary of the death of the great Martin Luther King, Jr. led us all to remember him and to take up again his spirit of activism. He is a hero to me not only as a spiritual activist but also as a creative activist. He had pride in his self-described “maladjustment,” and […]
Clean Enough to Swim
I asked him if we could go swimming. Actually, I asked him if he could swim at all. It’s a fair question though because he is from Siberia. If you’re not familiar with Siberia, and honestly who is, here’s a history typical of almost all Siberian cities: a small medieval trading post sits out in […]
