Archive for the ‘The World of the Journal’ Category

The Times They Are a Changing

Thursday, July 1st, 2010 Posted in Guerrilla News, The Editors Desk, The World of the Journal | No Comments »

It's the end of the school year and summer is fast approaching.  there are graduations to be planned, futures prepared for and Proms to be had.  There are tuxedos to be rented, dresses to be bought, limos stuffed with teens ...

What Do You Do About a Problem Like Swine Flu?

Friday, May 1st, 2009 Posted in Guerrilla Affairs, Guerrilla News, The World of the Journal | No Comments »

The Swine Flu Epidemic may have finally reached its peak and across America people breathing a sigh of relief.  Why?  I don't know.  As of this date there has been one death due to "Swine flu", or H1N1 influenza, or ...

Bus Ride Conversation

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Posted in The World of the Journal | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_63" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Art work by Tina Li"][/caption] Conversation #3 It’s somewhere around midnight and I'm headed into Palo Alto down the El Camino to try and get some work done.  There's a tired looking asian kid I've seen around ...

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Guerrilla Affairs, The World of the Journal | No Comments »

It’s almost three a.m. and I'm staring down the El Camino smoking a cigarette and thinking about Bukowski. And there are riots in the Congo at soccer games because one of the players used witch craft. And the Vice-Presidential candidate tried to ...

Bus Ride Conversations

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in The World of the Journal | No Comments »

Conversation Number 2 Its eight o'clock on a Saturday morning and I haven't slept at all and I'm sitting at some bus stop in Santa Clara and light a cigarette to make the time go by faster.  "'ex-scuse ...

Bus Ride Conversations

Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in The World of the Journal | 1 Comment »

Welcome to the first episode of what I'm going to start calling.... Bus Ride Conversations.... okay, I guess it’s not quite so dramatic since it was the title of the article and everything but fuck off, it’s three in ...

The End of the World, Friday the 13th and Father’s Day

Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in Guerrilla Affairs, The World of the Journal | No Comments »

Thursday was the end of the world.  At least according to Buffalo Bill Hawkins. But that's not the point. Yesterday was Friday the thirteenth. At least according to most western calendars. But thats not the point either.  And tomorrow's Father's Day and Iowa's flooding, ...

Peacekeepers to Law Enforcement to Fund Raisers: C0PS

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Guerrilla Affairs, The World of the Journal | No Comments »

Honestly, I'd hoped that I wouldn't have to write this article. I gave the rest of the media establishment almost a week to publish this article, but they didn't. I guess in a way, I shouldn't be surprised. ...

Drawing on Fear and Loathing

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in The World of the Journal | 2 Comments »

Its three am and I'm a little bit drunk and stoned and staring at an engraven picture of ink in the back of my copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that would seem more a prophetic warning ...

Turning 21 in the 21st Century

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in The World of the Journal | No Comments »

It was a bleak and rainy day. I wish that wasn't so corny but it’s the truth. It was. It was the Deputy's birthday... technically tomorrow but Mikey and I had planned for him to ring in his own ...