Beans for Breakfast

A gang of runners passed by. They wore yellow hooded sweatshirts like the one’s my middle school track team wore. Some of the sweatshirts said “True Stories” on the front. I like the David Byrne film by that title, so I stopped a runner that was falling behind and tried to convince [...]

I was just skimming through the new issue of Tablet, a free magazine that’s distributed around town, and I learned something unusual about one of my neighbors - a woman who’s working at the reservoir construction across from my apartment building.
She’s a flagger. She stands on the corner with a reversible Stop/Slow sign and [...]

After a car screeched past and clipped a parked motorcycle, a representative of the street fair strolled out into the street. He assessed the scene and waved off the onlookers. No one is hurt. Nothing to see. He stood on the median and talked on a cell phone. A police [...]

By the way, my favorite joke (probably stolen from some obvious movie or book) goes like this:
“What’s a non sequitur?”
“It’s a random word or phrase. Something dropped in somewhere with no context.”
“You mean like ‘fish’?”

Update: In the comments, Justin and Jake both seperately identify the source of the joke as a Too Much Coffee [...]