Entries Tagged as ‘City life’

March 10, 2009

Train tales

I am a starcrossed lover of the obnoxious. On one hand, they are the bane of my existence. On the other, one of my top earthly joys is needling them, from the pompous prick to your standard everyday fuck face. That’s why my failure to launch today, into one very ripe and deserved needling session, [...]

March 8, 2009

Why do schizofrenics…

Why to crazies on the bus always want to talk about Jesus?

Hung out with my grl Angelica who relayed these tales:
Whilst riding the bus on the south side of Chicago on two recent separate occasions crazies twice accosted her. One to tell her how, in detail, that the Harry Potter she was reading was the [...]

March 4, 2009

Being broke is really distracting. A better distraction is booze.

My husband has just started a job today! It’s a tutoring gig. Part time and the first time he has worked since Oct. 31st. Not for lack of trying, either. The poor sap has applied to more jobs than I can count, and he’s had five interviews that resulted in nada. This means in T-minus [...]