Category Archives: Screeds

Angry? You won’t like me when I’m angry . . .

Four percent

As I am driving home from the event his words haunt every twitch in traffic: On your way home, remember this: for every hundred vehicles on the road there are four drivers who don’t care if they kill you. These … Continue reading

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Travel advisory

Prospective visitors to this small city of small dreams, be advised that we have torn down, purged and burned our idiosyncracies, our strange even abominable uniqueness:

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Expediency

Quickly suck some spaghetti into your mouth And note how it inevitably flips against Your cheeks, chin, upper lip — whatever. That is what ships do to water when they Pass our island over the speed limit: They rip the … Continue reading

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