June 30th, 2010 - Tyler - permalink
The cricket’s chirp was the only constant in the late hours when the scorch of the sun had retreated to a cool breeze. The cacophony of obnoxious traffic on the bubbling highway faded gradually like an old faucet tightened slowly…
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“Don’t talk like one of them you’re not…even if you’d like to be. You see, to them, you’re just a freak…like me!”
It was around 3AM Saturday night when I pulled in front of a packed Sully’s Pub on Adams…
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Our database server was down yesterday. I was pretty sure it would never come back, but sure enough, American Dropout was up and running bright and early Monday morning.
There was a silver lining to the downtime. My good friend…
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This is where I was born and I never had a choice. An infidel in a congregation of cannibals. They have a guilt-free taste for the flesh of a radical. My blood is a delicacy to be sipped, at room…
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Most of 116 is one lane each way thanks to some slowly progressing construction. That’s the way all construction is handled around here. The workers have no incentive to move quickly, and the cops love it because it gives them…
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Filling up at the end of the night was cheap because I had made almost nothing. I topped the Scion off at $4.75 and walked inside. The clerk had been kind enough to allow me to pump the gas before…
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There’s never anything good for me in the mail. Only impending doom. My divorce papers came a few months ago from one imagined happy ending. Then a child support notice from another.
The Secretary of State had something to say…
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