I don’t remember the children’s sobs of suffering and anguish being this intense last year. Perhaps this year’s surrogate Santa is creepier than last year’s? Perhaps the children are gradually cluing in to the fact that their parents are placing them in dire peril for a few moments’ amusement and a $10 five-by-eight?
It’s a real [...]
The guy who runs the retirement-slogan-t-shirts and formaldehyde-leaking-Croc-shoes-ripoff kiosk is taking a very long time to fire a very crying employee in the middle of this enforced buying space. Right next to me. Loudly.
We’re all professionals here. There was a newspaper involved and she had to catch the 9:05 bus.
Take all the bullshit I put [...]
Phone calls from payphones now cost 50 cents instead of 25.
Yes, payphones still exist.
But now whenever you answer a call that originated from a payphone you get to hear an intelligent and interesting rant about how it’s now 50 cents to make a phone call and that’s outrageous. And everyone standing next to the payphone [...]
You can’t just waltz into November without thinking ahead and expect to escape alive with a story to tell. That’s jackass thinking. You gotta lay down some goals first. Set aside a day or two in late October to sketch out some concepts in that navy blue spiral-bound notebook you’re always carrying around with you. [...]
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Posted 05 December 2006
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