A Random Bender in Seattle I was bored, not knowing what to do with my time, so I settled down in my bus and read Oscar Zeta Costa’s “Autobiography of a Brown buffalo”, a great book by the Chicano lawyer who gained fame through representing and carousing with Hunter S. Thompson. The overall effect of…
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The Night I Decided to Sell My Guns
As I, and the world, try to come to terms with the murder of a bunch of kindergarten students in the USA, I think back to the night that decided me on selling all of my own guns. I’d grown up with guns and I had a 12-gauge shotgun, a few deer rifles, a .22…
Mathilda: The Hot Insurance Adjuster
Another true story from the year 2000. I’m still baffled by this one. I just don’t understand what the hell was going on. In the year 2000, I lived in Bellingham but was commuting with my little VW Fox to Seattle every day for a new job. It was a lot of driving, but…
A Typical Greyhound Busride – Farters and Axe Murderers
I’ve heard they’ve gotten better but here was what a bus ride on a Greyhound looked like in 1998. The bus ride was fairly uneventful. The first person to sit next to me was a sweet looking old woman who got on the bus in Centralia, Washington. I made room for her and she pulled…
Thoughts on Living in a Car and Crime in America
For those who don’t know – I used to live in a VW Bus in various places. It was fine in Hawaii but living in a car in Mainland America never felt okay to me…to be honest, it was hard to get a good night’s sleep unless I was someplace I knew was secure. A…
Memories of the Food Bank
There was a time back in the 90’s when I would look forward each week to visiting the Food Bank in Bellingham, Washington. Artisanal breads, whole salmon, whole turkies at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and plenty of exotic fruit and veg. It was food that I couldn’t have afforded back then – just a few days…
Remembering the Day the USA began to Die
I would imagine that everyone has an opinion on this. Some would say that it will never happen, some will say it has already happened. I say that the process is still underway. Here’s my recollection of the day the USA began to die…at least the day I lost my ooh-rah. I wrote this at…
The Dogcatcher Cometh
Another true life excerpt from the current version of Slackville Road that isn’t making it into the rewrite…great story…and totally true. The Dogcatcher Cometh by Vago Damitio I never bothered paying the $50 to license my dog with the city of Seattle. I wasn’t the best dog owner. I would make sure she had food…
God Hates Nothing So Much as a Bald Headed Woman
God Hates Nothing So Much as a Bald Headed Woman As a young boy, the preacher lady would sometimes force us to go to church with her when our folks were fighting. The Jehovah’s Witness bible is different than the other bibles but still set up in the same way. It has two columns per…
Me and God when I was a Child
I wrote this quite a long while back. I incorporated it into the 2009 version of Slackville Road which you can find here. It hasn’t made the cut in the rewrite that I’m sharing by email as a weekly serial though (you can sign up for that for free here) – but I still liked it,…