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Monthly Archives: June 2001

All That One Wants

Yesterday I walked down to the waterfront. Pier 61/62 is closed – loaded down with construction for Summer Nights at the Pier – so I walked south to the piers with the tourist shops. I watched things happening in the sound. A boat headed out from the next pier and let someone out into the [...]

Kids say the darndest things.

“It’s not like she skips school to go banging or to sell drugs. She just likes to skip. But she’s square. She’s hella’ square.” -A girl to her friends On Pike near the market I’m crossing Pine at Broadway toward SCCC. A teenage couple is in front of me, their shoes are making clicking sounds [...]

Hyphen

Caffe Minnie’s is the place where people go to eat at odd hours. Each dish has a pile of fried potatoes scattered over one side of the plate, and all of their food pretty much tastes just like those potatoes. Though, more than one person has reported that the tomato soup is excellent. My sleep [...]

The Disadvantages of Living in the Moment

I remember when it was raining and sunny at the same time. And I remember when I stepped into a theater soaked to the bone after a rainy walk. I waited in the crowded lobby and dripped into a paper cup of too hot Earl Grey. Those were moments. But there was another time, in [...]

Distracted

I have a ticket to a movie at the film festival and Naomi decides to go too. She goes outside to smoke, while I shut down my PC. I stroll out onto the sidewalk, catch a glimpse of someone on the periphery and turn my head with a, ready to go?, look. I’m expecting Naomi, [...]

A Vat of Molasses

On Thursday, Mari & I followed up on a little misadventure, we went to Sara’s birthday party for real this time. (Sara really knows how to throw a party, by the way. For her thirtieth, she rented out the 35th floor of Smith Tower for god’s sake.) I like seeing the particular slice of Amazon [...]

KCPQ

A hip young reporter at the begining of Q13 Reports At Ten struggles for words and misses the point: “We’ll take you to the vigil for . . . the . . . police officer . . . who shot that fellow.”