Jan
27
(originally posted 12/22/2014) There’s really no way to tell this story where I don’t come off looking like an asshole and to some degree that makes telling it a lot easier. I could tell you that I’m not proud of my behavior but instead I’d like to focus on some possible explanations. The behavior […]
Jan
26
Our story begins in 1979. That was the year that Vera Mindy Chokalingam was born. You know her now as Mindy Kaling. Her parents, Avudaiappan Chokalingam and Swati Chokalingam née Roy-Sircar, had just emigrated to from India. They willingly left a country where everyone looked like they did to come to a country of white […]
Jan
25
Born To Run In the day we sweat it out on the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through the mansions of glory In suicide machines Sprung from cages on Highway 9 Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin’ out over the line Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your […]
Jan
24
(originally posted 12/20/2014) (It’s a shame that I even have to point this out, but I know somewhere there is somebody who will read this and say “Hey! This is just a rip-off of the George Carlin routine about the differences between baseball and football!” Relax, fuckface. We in the writing profession don’t call […]
Jan
23
(originally appeared on the Yareah Magazine website 4/13/2014) The dark-skinned girl behind the counter with eight vowels and only three consonants in her name looked up at me. I was next. If there was ever a time for finger-pointing it was now. It was show time. I had twelve to pick for my morning […]
