August 27th, 2008
“Son of a bitch, you’re running up the meter!”27 comments
August 20th, 2008
"Hey bro, remember me? You wrote that story about me in the paper."3 comments
August 13th, 2008
“It’s the Californians, man, the Californians are the worst.”15 comments
August 6th, 2008
The middle-aged man I picked up at Vendetta is in a hyperactively verbose lather ...0 comments
July 23rd, 2008
When I step into the obese old woman's apartment5 comments
July 16th, 2008
The obese old woman at Fred Meyer has a bad hip and a wheelchair...8 comments
July 9th, 2008
“...I need to take a shower first and wash all of this blood off.”6 comments
July 2nd, 2008
“So I’ve got these two women in the back of my cab who just refuse to get out...”8 comments
June 25th, 2008
“My friend’s getting divorced, and he’s really drunk,” says the bartender...8 comments
June 18th, 2008
There’s nothing like a good Friday night, and I’m referring to the money.3 comments
[September 20th, 2006] Oh, joy, another music column! Thus ensuring that some troll will post about how I must think I'm just so cool and should just shut up with the music columns already. Well, you know, some days my passengers talk about politics, or sex, or cats, or math, or space aliens, or the perfidy of the FDA. This guy wants to talk about "the Afghan Whigs! Oh my god, I can't believe you're listening to the Afghan Whigs! I thought everyone had forgotten about them!"
"Hell no!" I reply. "Gentlemen is one of the best (and most-overlooked) records of the '90s. I still listen to them all the time, although the name.... I've always wondered about that band name."
He agrees wholeheartedly about Gentlemen, and we try and figure out why the Whigs didn't take over the world, as they most certainly should have. "Honestly," I say, "I think it was grunge that did them in. That wave just swept aside everything in its path. Which is a shame, because back when all those hairy young men in flannel were emoting heavily all over the place, it was Greg Dulli with his dapper suits and eloquent self-loathing that got my panties wet."
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"Oh man, my girlfriend used to have such a crush on that guy," he laughs.
"Well, then, tell her he's got a new band called the Twilight Singers. And their Blackberry Belle is now one of the greatest and most overlooked records of...what are we calling this decade again?"
RECENT COMMENTS ON “Oh, joy, another music column! ”
Graham: Sad, but true, I actually do talk like that when I get on a roll about something. I would never _write_ a sentence that awkward, at least, not on purpose. A friend of mine once said, "you talk...
I hate it when humor has to be explained !!!
troll, sigh. That's the internet for you though, any attempts at subtle wit are eventually reduced to something you can point at as "teh funny"
Hairy young men in flannel...Afghan Whigs....
