Save Rana

30 Mar

Something Political.

President Barack Obama appointed General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.The stated mission of the Council …

29 Mar

Survival Kit, Entry A: The basics

KIT A: The basics > This survival kit includes some basic gear, that while it may not fit every situation, is a good baseline. 1. Fixed blade …

29 Mar

Game: The Survival Kit.

It started off as just a couple things I decided to keep in my trunk; things that, if away from home in the midst of …

27 Mar

How it will happen. Part I

As anyone who reads this blog probably knows, there is no future I look more keenly towards than one filled with zombies. Zombies have invaded pop …

27 Mar

The last 7 days.

All the officers have been fasting, meanwhile the troops have been sneaking meals.

21 Mar

Plastic Bottles.

Okay, so is PET plastic bad for me if my bottles of water are exposed to sunlight? Or should I use SODIS to kill the …

20 Mar

Perpetual frustration engine.

He stomps through the fields, frightening the animals, thumping footfalls shaking the valley. When he leaves, there is little left. In his passing, there’s just …

17 Mar

No Change… Sorry.

In the last 50 years, revolution in America went from a certainty to an impossibility. After Robert Kennedy was gunned down, there were still enough …

13 Mar

Sunday Grumpy Sunday

Todays list of complaints. 1. There was NO produce at the farmer’s market today. Seriously, three different burrito stands, lots of fucking candles and beads, no …

04 Mar

Grown ass man.

I have nothing to say today.

02 Mar

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Who said it better than Hunter S. Thompson? I had planned a little tirade, a bit of autobiographical hypocrisy, but with all the Sheen-Mania of …

02 Mar

I’m standing in my pocket and I’m slowly turning grey

It was one of those in-between nights, the kind of night when your coat is too warm, and when you take it off you shiver. …

01 Mar

Eating nuts and drinking scotch.

Ennui, lethargy, and vice; the holy trinity to which I am reluctantly penitent. How fascinating, you must be thinking, how Josh is able to so …

28 Feb

Showdown in Los Angeles Mall, 3 injured, 2 dead, 1 back from dead.

The security gates were just opening for the day throughout the Beverly Center mall on what would have otherwise been a typical saturday morning. Employees …

27 Feb

Borderline Personality Recorder.

I wonder if Charlie Sheen needs a biographer. I couldn’t help but write it in the first person; diving into the muck and sculpting it into …

26 Feb

The long walk.

I need an adventure, I’m feeling restless. It’s one of those sell everything I own and buy a plane ticket to anywhere kind of feelings. …

25 Feb

It’s still a desert, even when wet.

If you’re going to assume that some higher entity has taken an interest in your life, try to think about what you’re implying while you …

24 Feb

Smiling Jack the Anarch

The influence model of reality states that reality is the sum of the interactions of influence, in order to be real, to exist; and the …

22 Feb

Karaoke Unicorn Fireball!

7 Habits of semi-effective people, a guide to something like empowerment. 1. Believe in yourself: Find no fault in yourself, this is the core principle. If there …

20 Feb

Adverbsly

Dear Adverbs, First, I should be clear, I am not addressing adverbial phrases, nor you clumps of words that become, through no merit of your own, …

19 Feb

Everybody’s working for the weekend.

Amazon’s “Reccomended for You” system is fucking idiotic. Whenever you order anything from amazon, it goes into your purchase history, and is used to recommended other products that …

18 Feb

President company.

Monday is president’s day! I’m so excited. I plan on spending the day researching my favorite presidents and learning all about them. Then I’m going to …

18 Feb

Passive Aggressive Rebellion

I love sleep, tangerines, and the redemption of character flaws, in that order. I hate routine, getting cuts on my fingers, and unintended sequels. I …

17 Feb

Absentee Control Freak.

It feels like the whole thing is sinking back into the earth, the house, the telephone poles, the office buildings and movie theaters. I go …

17 Feb

We pay top dollar for your cash!

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16 Feb

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk.

It’s a rare rainy day in LA, an Ernest Hemingway day, the kind that ends with a blackout and a hangover. Which means that tomorrow the …

16 Feb

Giant Tiger runs wild in DTLA! Veterinarian implicated in sex scandal.

This morning, at 4:42 AM, Enrico Gustavo made a frantic call to 911. “Help me! I’m trapped in my car and I’m about to be …

15 Feb

Valentine’s Day Zombie Massacre

Los Angeles Gun Club. For a few bucks you can take your pick from a massive selection of guns, buy a box of ammo or …

14 Feb

The slices of the lambs.

Vegan pot-roast for lunch at Doomie’s on Vine. Me, a committed carnivore. Pot roast, of all things to fake with Seitan and Tofu, a staple of my american …

13 Feb

Lupercalia: Fuck that valentine.

Lupercalia is an ancient pagan festival, like most of the good ones, about fucking, feasting, and sacrifice. It was meant to ward off evil, …

12 Feb

Listening to the fish

Horoscope for today: DJs will resume playing full songs, bars will serve drinks in glass, and no one will find the body you buried last week. …

08 Feb

I think it goes: Time spent wasted is not wasted time.

I’m going to forget a lot of things, that’s inevitable. I’ll forget them all when I die. My friend Matt argues that there’s no point in …

07 Feb

Monday, oh Monday, you make me drink.

Clocking in. When I’m in Los Angeles, I think about New York; When I’m in New York, blah blah blah. Anyway, now is one of those …

03 Feb

I missed my own anniversary.

I didn’t really think about it, but SaveRana has been up for a year now, and I’ve been kind of keeping up with it… so …

11 Jan

Panhandling

A couple things caught my eye today. The reallifesuperheroes.org poster boy “Phoenix Jones” was injured this week while trying to break up a fight. While he doesn’t seem …

09 Jan

Escaping Prison.

I don’t have a plan yet, but my eyes are open. One of the guards, Wildorf, I think, is blind as a bat, his glasses …

09 Jan

There were only a couple of injuries.

The only people who should say they’re ‘cautiously optimistic’ are oddsmakers. If I ever have a doctor tell me he feels that way, I’ll tell …

08 Jan

Communism is gone, and all we have left is the threat of zombie apocalypse.

Pac-Man is life. Your avatar, a voracious happy-faced digital entity, has no goal but to consume as much as possible before death corners him, which is …

07 Jan

It’s not paranoia if it isn’t paranoia.

For some reason my brain confuses the battery indicator of my phone with the gas gauge of my car, if one is low, I panic …

01 Jan

And there would be centaurs.

I’d have thought online shopping would have fixed the country by now. All the retail stores could close down and be replaced by parks and …

29 Dec

December gone.

I spent december in limited exile. Between work and lethargy, I found myself rarely in a state to have experiences worth remembering. I wonder, often, …

17 Dec

There’s liquor inside.

I imagine what would happen if I could go back and relive my life knowing everything I know now, but I’m still the same person, …

04 Dec

BiCoastal

I’ve spent 11 weeks in Los Angeles this year. I live in Los Angeles. I have an apartment there, and a car, and I used to have …

16 Nov

This is also a picture of houston, even though I’m in LA now.

I’m actually not staying in Los Angeles, I got in 5 days ago, and I’m leaving in 4. Seriously, why do I even keep an apartment …

10 Nov

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand

Actually, I’m sitting near my gate at the Phoenix airport, in a roped off section behind where the employees hang out, in a seat that …

05 Nov

Jack

John E. London, the source of my good looks. – I’m in Houston, a city with over 11,000 restaurants, casting a show about overweight couples. I expect …

01 Nov

Zach and Rebel-guy Make a Porno

From october’s ‘Lightsaber Battle to the Death’.

01 Nov

Halloween

Drove home at 5:00am, unusually well rested and not at all drunk; so, fail.

21 Oct

Cocktober

I hate all this tober shit. Rocktober, Shocktober, everything is suddenly a fest; fucking if it ends in -ock, it’s got a fest. Google …

15 Sep

E.S.T.

7:30 AM in NY, 4:30 AM in LA. There’s a huge difference between 4am and 7am. One feels like I should be going to sleep, …

30 Aug

Conspicuous Absence

Just got my 50mm back from the shop. Thinking about my next trip to NY, thinking about 1960s ad campaigns not featured on mad men, and …

19 Aug

Scenes from a Wedding

I’d like to go back to school. I was thinking about starting in kindergarten though, because I really like naptime.

18 Aug

Courtney’s Wedding

I had a dream about the origin of the zombie outbreak, I think it was a prophecy. Word of advice, don’t keep a loved one’s …

13 Aug

Dirty.

Sometimes I wish I could drink bleach; I wish that I could smoke drain cleaner, snort Ajax, inject windex… something to kill the festering irritation …

03 Aug

The EFP – Mostly Babies.

Everyone’s got babies. It’s nuts.

23 Jul

wedding

Niece FTW

17 Jul

Nashville

Printer’s Alley, Home of the most tragic strip club in the south.

17 Jul

Kentucky is Pretty

Sleep has become a rare luxury. Nearing the tail end of the trip, and we made it from Huntsville Alabama to Lexington, Kentucky, to Nashville …

13 Jul

These boots are made for drinkin’

Unfortunately, we did not visit Graceland. I could not find a Karate Elvis action figure. I did, however, eat a ‘Shag’ for breakfast, which is …

12 Jul

Memphisto

Flash flood warning on the TV. Worked late. No graceland today, probably splitting for Alabama in the AM.

09 Jul

Hindi Scripture and film scripts

I wish I could remember my dreams, not on a daily basis, but just a best of compilation. I’m not into the tedium of …

07 Jul

Em Eye Crooked Letter something something lalala

We made it through; but the echoes of Louisiana still rang in our ears. Sunset Reflection by Chocolate Sauce.

05 Jul

The big right turn.

Leaving Louisiana. Next stop, Jackson.

04 Jul

July 4th, candy’s first roman candle

At mudfest; on lawn chairs, atop the RV.

04 Jul

Mudfest in Colfax, LA

We’ve christened the RV Lady Biloxi.

03 Jul

N’awlins

We were only able to spend one night in New Orleans, but it was a serious night. No vampires, unfortunately.

01 Jul

Chocolate Sauce wants to Marry Biloxi

His daughter will be named Biloxi ‘Fair ’nuff’ Hansen.

29 Jun

Mobile, Alabama

The RV remains unnamed. Destin was uneventful, so we’re crashing at a Days Inn in mobile. It was the only place in Mobile that still …

26 Jun

Talahassee

Party Down South casting continues…

24 Jun

Baker County

Party Down South casting is moving along, we left Jacksonville early this afternoon, and spent most of the day people hunting; which is far less …

22 Jun

Continental Sucks

Since this is my soapbox, I might as well use it. Before I started writing this post, I called the ”Customer Care” line to see if …

20 Jun

Drrrrrrrby

There aren’t enough zombies on the track. Zombie Derby has to happen, Who’s on that?

19 Jun

The mustache does all the work.

Google knows too much about me. Sometimes I feel like it’s just following me around, watching from the shadows. ‘Oh, you like that car you …

17 Jun

Excerpt from a yet to be written novel.

. … why he always watched the door. With the splintered shaft twisted into his shoulder his left arm was useless, trying to undo the latch …

16 Jun

Ze Office

Lucky Cat on the phone. I’m going to open a money market account, I like money, but I don’t like having access to it all the …

16 Jun

Lost Angeles

Just a few days here really, maybe 12, and then I’m off again… Things to do: Sushi at Yoshi’s in Weho, drinks at Tiki-Ti, Flake on some plans, Catch the …

09 Jun

The 5,280,000 Yard Stare

I’m stranded in the in between state, hours before my time zone shift. There’s going to be a lot of extra daylight today, as the …

07 Jun

A walk in the park

The last day of NYC for Chocolate Sauce and the team… we wandered around the village, drank mojitos and sangria, avoided conversation, and fantasized about …

07 Jun

Photo by CS

I fucking hate flying delta. Good bye east coast. See you in a month or two .

05 Jun

I say hello, you say fuck off.

Piper is ready to burn it down. Loryn sleeps on the edge of a rooftop, stories above the street. Coco Handsome and Symphony pose for …

02 Jun

Addendum to Scenes from the shore

Casting Powers Combine! Fortuitous lens flares can save otherwise terrible photos. Case in point…

02 Jun

Scenes from the shore.

01 Jun

Okinawa, Japan or somewhere else.

This is what we’re saying.

27 May

It’s raining ugly.

This time, it’s personal.

25 May

Bad Hookah, Good Coffee

About to back up April/May, buried in a hard drive never to be seen again. For lack of a picture to sum up the last …

18 May

Green-ass tree

Today it rained a lot. I drove for hours. This is a tree.

18 May

Professional Skee-ball

Loryn. Clipboard. Skee-Ball. Boardwalk. Seaside. Jersey Shore scouting on the Jersey Shore.

16 May

Familiar Sights.

Stacked plastic ‘glassware’, carafes of cranberry juice, orange juice, and tonic, a bottle of grey goose, a bucket of ice. Somewhere, a blonde with …

14 May

Nico!

Every once in a while, someone surprises you with a plate of italian deserts. Nico on Hanover St., Boston.

14 May

Oh the places you’ll go…

With all the traveling I do for work, I think my ideal vacation would involve a lot of sitting still. I’m interested in spending some …

12 May

Captain america

At rumor in Boston with Chris Evans. This city was pretty nice to us. Shaggy got bitten by a werewolf, but we may …

10 May

Boston.

Type: Cold Status: Tired

07 May

Heading out for a bit.

Philly tomorrow, boston on sunday, then back on the planet Wednesday.

01 May

Mickey Matt

“According to Rischmann, police were dispatched to Nicolet High School on Tuesday to investigate a reported battery. When the responding officer arrived on the scene, …

29 Apr

Loryn and matt at work

Fridays on thursay, happy hour.

29 Apr

So tired.

Loryn hates chocolate chips. The Internet DJ insists she might also like cigarettes. Matt is funny.

24 Apr

X-Man

Nervous about internet security, real life security, and crowd control. Xavier doesn’t care about any of that. He just wants to put the iPhone in his …

24 Apr

Work.

There are never enough hours in a day, and even though I’m using them all; when the day is over, I can only ever remember …

24 Apr

Odontophobia is an abnormal fear of teeth.

Chemophobia literally means “fear of chemicals”, but the term may be used in various ways. It is most often used to describe the unbased assumption …

22 Apr

Impromptu Starbucks Photoshoot

Imagine you were an exterminator who was very good at his job, finding a nest of termites and eradicating them before they could damage the …