David was lanky, acned, and autistic; and The Bulls were manufactured to win the 1998 district basketball championship for Zumwalt South Middle School.  And so David got put on The Bulls, my team. 

The move made things less unfair to the other South Middle School teams during the Regular Se… Read full post »

April the 20th is celebrated for three important reasons (in no particular order): 

• it is my half-birthday
• it is Snoop Dogg's half-birthday
• it is the international day for smoking marijuana illegally

And so the irony was not lost on me tonight when, while searching my Picasa albums for/… Read full post »

In September of 2004, I lived off Edgware Road in London's Little Lebanon and worked behind a bar at a pool hall pub for Arab gangbangers and kingpins, swinging the occasional sterling surge promoting high-end night clubs as partner-in-crime to a Palestinian diplomat's flamboyant primogenitur… Read full post »

The game was Hazelwood West vs. Zumwalt South at Hazelwood West High School in St. Louis, Missouri.

O'Fallon, Missouri is my hometown, and the world headquarters of CitiMortgage - the same CitiMortgage that lent more money than existed, through contracts written in a legal Aramaic even Greenspan couldn't read or recite slowly, but that Americans autographed like Mylie Cyrus at a Kids 'R/…

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