Reflecting On A Year
Part II

Josh Gilpatrick
8-30-04

Our planned trip set us in the belly of Los Angeles late on a Sunday evening. We imagined we would sneak in under the shadow of night and navigate the complex of serpentine highways and byways and this ways and that ways while Los Angeles slept a Sunday night before a hectic week...

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"A Self-Descriptive, Verbose Deus ex Machina Story"

Koinis Coles
8-30-04
Volunteer Writer

On the road to Avenal, my ex-neighbor and family acquaintance, Simony Lloyd Gibbs Jr., joins our conversation about twenty minutes into the ride.

After selling sprockets at Jehovah’s Cyclery, he left his apparent vocation to become a socialite...

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Hollywood Puzzles Me

John Owen Skinner
8-30-04

The other day, I was talking to my brother about the huge number of movies that were released every year, and the fact that, ten years from now, maybe 1% of them will be remembered. For example, who here remembers Celtic Pride starring Damon Wayans and Daniel Stern? Bulletproof starring Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler? Bushwhacked starring, you guessed it, Daniel Stern and Jon Polito...

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Jenn Vs. The Lawnmoer

Jenn from the Block
8-30-04
Volunteer Writer

Yes, I am afraid it's true, I have been battling lawn mowers a long time. For some unknown reason, it seems they hold a serious grudge against me. As a teenager, it was one of my chores to cut the grass. We lived on over an acre, and my parents made me do this evil chore. The evil part is the lawn mower. It had no motor, no luxury of being self-propelled, just the manual spinning wheel. It was crap. I did not live in the 1800's and I certainly did not live in hickville, yet I was subjected to this Quaker labor....

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