This is a cross-post from the writing section of my website. I wrote this in the mid-2000s and recently rediscovered it, decided I still liked it, cleaned it up a bit, and published it.

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Israeli envoy wrecks art exhibit

Sweden’s foreign ministry wants an explanation from the Israeli ambassador after he...

Jazz heard the back door break. She heard the wood splinter, and the sound of saliva-drenched growling entering the hall between the door and the main room of the bar. She heard the heavy footfalls of the thing as it stumbled through the narrow passage, its arms scraping against the...

He sat in the center of the bar, leg propped up on another chair with the bag of ice Mack had provided draped across his thigh. He tried to adjust himself in the chair but groaned and gave up. Jenny had called for an ambulance. It took at least 30...

He smiled and lit a cigar.

"We're just here to ask you a few questions.”

"I'll answer anything you want, but can I ask one thing first?"

"No."

“Why not?”

“Because we do the question-asking around here.”

"I see."

"Now, can you tell us what you were doing on the night of November 17th?"

"I was at home,...

I left the page open displaying the 51329 error and walked down the stairs to the front door. I unlocked it and opened it a crack. Two men in black suits stood there and one immediately put their hand on the open door. He flipped open a badge, held it...

I randomly thought about this online community today on the way to church and felt both sad that I haven't had the time to write or participate, and guilty that I hadn't even thought to check in for weeks, maybe months. I'm still logged in, at least.

I've been thinking about...

Test-driving this one here before I try to finish it and put it on my blog.

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Gantt charts are a symptom of a disease. They're like an alcoholic's first DUI. But if you're a startup with a product/engineering team of 5, they're like an alcoholic's first DUI at 16.

Gantt charts...

As I drove to my chiropractor a driver next to be appeared to be changing lanes into me. I honked. They didn't move, still 10 to 15 percent in my lane, they just stayed in that position. A block later they would suddenly veer left into a parking lot to...

I'm listening to Chuck Palahniuk's Consider This. It makes me want to write, just like Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird did. It's more tactical, so it makes me think about the unfinished drafts, the first drafts, the second drafts all sitting around taunting me. I listen to it in the...

Things are going shit
Getting it from all the sides
Everything falling down

my inside is outside
my right side's on the left side
listening to my

travis records on
youtube music so not really
records like I said

we don't care about art
there's no time to think about it
only time to react to

all the shit. ha ha.
"teh" was...