Archive for the 'Personal' Category

No freaks, please.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2003

Years ago I worked for a free weekly newspaper. I wrote about music, churned out features, and edited the entertainment section among other tasks. Occasionally I helped out with classified ads, since I used that system for some of my listings tasks and knew its quirks. Our paper had a tradition of weirdness in the [...]

A Ghost on Dover Drive

Sunday, June 15th, 2003

Driving up Dover from Coast Highway today, I saw a bicyclist coming down the other way. He was coasting down the hill, leaning over the handlebars and relaxing a bit. The rider was a man in his late sixties, hard and bony with shoulderblades sticking out and a big floppy hat covering most of his [...]