Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

When I was homeless, I used to sneak in to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA (Narcoholics Anonymous) for the free coffee and cookies. Some of the women there were pretty hot, too, especially at the meetings in Beverly Hills and Westwood.
One of the things I learned is that you get trinkets for certain periods of [...]

Foreshadowing

Part of my childhood was spent living in a little mining village called Gilman atop the Rocky Mountains near Pike’s Peak and Holy Cross Mountain in Colorado. I could look out my bedroom window and see herds of elk grazing in the lower mountain pastures below. It was absolutely panoramic.

We were cliffdwellers, all 200 of [...]

As Seen On Blinx Tv

Here’s one of my videos, entitled “Poets, Poets, Poets” as seen on Blinx Tv. But how did it get there? I didn’t put it there. And out of my 437 videos online, why did they choose this one? Inquiring minds want to know.

Psycho Nut Job Watch Alert

We have a psychologist on the U.S. Vets homeless veteran shelter premesis. She doesn’t do any one-on-one counselling of veterans or anything like that. I’m not sure what she does, but she does it in the Corporate Development office next to our computer room.

I’m not sure what Corporate Development does, either. I think they beg [...]

Parental Advice from An Urban Nomad

My son wrote me about
a wonderful young
woman in Kenya who
wants him to join her
there. I wrote:

Why not go? It’s your
life . . . but it seems to
me that you’ve chosen
an unencumbered life
so far for some purpose.

He wrote back:
Yeah, why not right?
But how does one just
drop everything and
go? How can one make
changes without
knowing the proper
outcome?

My answer [...]

Mother’s Day At The Homeless Shelter

Prime Time is out at the conversation benches. He looks confused and concerned, shaking his head sadly.
Prime Time is one of our cooks at U.S. Vets homeless shelter for crackheads, felons and crazies. Prime Time qualifies for this place in two out of three of those categories.
Prime Time is upset and hurt. He says that [...]

Writing Political Speeches For An L.A. City Councilman With The Drummer From “The Archies”

(click pic)
I’m just a simple country boy. I drove to Los Angeles from San Antonio with stars in my eyes, but never did I figure on how weird it was going to get. My last job in San Antonio was as a civil service aircraft mechanic at Kelly Air Force Base, [...]

My Chinese Fan Club

I don’t know why, but my stuff—the videos I submit to Revver.com—seem to go over better in non-English speaking countries. So maybe I should just stop talking in them?

Joyride of the Vanquished, Part 1

Friendship multiplies blessings and … southes the soul. —Baltasar Gracian

Ranger Mike, Gordon The Hollywood Anarchist and I decided to go to Hollywood last night. Gordon and I were going to see a movie, any movie, and Ranger Mike just wanted a ride up to the guitar center on Sunset Boulevard. He needed to buy a [...]

Screaming Mickeys

(click here to hear The Screaming Mickeys)
When I was living in the Motel Marquis crack motel, construction began on the vacant Vietnamese Cat Sacrificing Voodoo lot next door and the construction chased all the field mice in to our motel rooms.
The motel owner, being frugal, gave us tenants cheap glue strips to catch the mice. [...]