Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Golden State’

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

When facing a life-threatening emergency, you call “Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!” on the radio in the hopes that someone will hear and save you. May Day, on the other hand, was deemed International Workers’ Day by the Second International, the organization of socialist parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889. Whenever I see May Day…

 

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The Golden State!

If by “golden” you mean “overrun with self-obsessed hogs,” then I agree with you. Tomorrow the garbage is picked up. I have to put out my garbage cans. Every Wednesday night, my neighbor parks his enormous, stygian, rumbling, three-mile-per-gallon, penis-substitute truck exactly in the center of the space between my driveway and Tim’s. This means…

 

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