The Hollow Man

San Francisco: Financial District, Civic Center (Asian Art Museum and City Hall in lights after dark.) === Many of us see...

Here I am, pimping for hot swag Ilze gave my Mom a couple weeks ago during our trip to the City; Mom brings good Korean snack seaweed for he...

Unfortunately, TNDC saw fit after an expedited and highly dubious process to evict me October 22, 2014. My rent was always paid, there were...

It's been over a week since someone abducted my 8 lb., blue-eyed seal point cat, Jonesy -- they might even have broken into the house to...

Just to prove I'm not some bad egg who got lucky with some foreign matter-contaminated ground beef from the EVIL CORPORATION THAT CANNO...

"Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result." - 三島 由紀夫 / Mishima Yukio

Any enterprising, vicious attorney out there who might think of styling himself or herself the antonym of San Francisco's Jonathan Borns...

बुद्धं सरणं गच्छामि। दम्मं सरणं गच्छामि। सङ्घं सरणं गच्छामि।

Dreadful, deeply unfunny joke within a joke ad infinitum:  Condoleeza Rice was Secretary of State; her main claims to fame were that she was...

I just had an idea for a story in which someone invents a drug to combat cold and flu symptoms that's also a somewhat addictive euphoric...

And sometimes, when you feel good, don't you just want the whole world to know, so everyone can be happy for you? So what we have is a...

But then, when have I ever had my say? Oh, right. Here we go again .  What a sad, terrifying (but is it still mystifying, in 2016?) stor...

The old bolsheviks admonished us to kill all the landlords, but in my opinion (one echoing the experiences of Woodie Guthrie ), low-income h...

Drinking, smoking and drugging cover a multitude of virtues -- a valid and proven survival technique for those of us standing on the thresho...

Basics for survival, sanity and enlightenment.  Read these stories and take them to heart.

...Including the oppressors:  "We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions, bound together by a single unity: the...

"The time is always right to do the right thing."

" The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,  against unreasonable searches and seizures, shal...

Janet sat in the lotus position at the base of the acacia tree.  Mara's army was relentless.  It raged, it cajoled.  Among the many lies...

Since 1977 I have written in my heart every sorrow, every loss, every slight, every fury.  I have watched and listened until it cost me almo...