Archive for June, 2003

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Friday, June 27th, 2003

You know those phone calls you get, where there’s an awkward silence at first and then you hear a click and a call-center person says “Hello, make I speak to [mangled version of your name]“? That’s a call from a predictive dialing system.

Valley Days, Part I (Shoes for Sale)

Friday, June 27th, 2003

I spent a big chunk of the 1980s and 1990s in the San Fernando Valley. I didn’t have a car at the time, so I had to hump it over the hill on the RTD from West L.A. to North Hollywood..

The birds and

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

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My friend Mack and I used to work at a dot-com disaster in Hollywood. Sometimes we’d eat at a restaurant on Franklin Avenue we liked. It was a chicken restaurant with a Hitchcock theme called “Birds”. The food was good, the joke was better, and [...]

Soul Kitchens

Saturday, June 21st, 2003

The best thing about college for me was the radio station. Not just for the usual reasons people enjoy college radio (shared coolness, access to free stuff, the magic of radio itself), but because it was a place to hang. Ever since then I’ve needed a hangout.

Good Mourning

Wednesday, June 18th, 2003

No freaks, please.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2003

A Ghost on Dover Drive

Sunday, June 15th, 2003

Are too.

Saturday, June 14th, 2003