This week we drove up through Mt. Shasta and Weed enroute to rail in Oregon. The town of Weed is worth mentioning because, obviously, it is named after the great Abner Weed (for those further interested in Weed, check out the Weed Chamber of Commerce. Also, Weed was the endpoint of the Shittiest Greyhound Ride Ever, and the starting point of the ( Read more... )

So I'm in Dallas Texas. Good times. If you ever find yourself in Texas be wary of "home cookin'" restaurants. My stomach survived the water in Mexico, but texas "home cooking" has already given me a couple emergency trips to the bathroom in the last two days. Found a skinny kitty chillin' in front of my motel room last night, we fed her a " ( Read more... )

Just got back from a 10-day stay in crystal meth county, USA. Border hopped into Baja with a co-worker on an unscheduled day off (thanks for the fuck-up UPS!) which was alternatingly trippy (driving through the lifeless remnants of an ancient iteration of the rockies rising out of an expansive salt flat/ dried lake bed, seeing the colorado river ( Read more... )

It's 0140, I just got home from work, I'm wearing a collared shirt, eating apple pie, and covered in mud/tailings that were drilled from under a navy installation in Sunnyvale. Gross. I spent last week chasing railroad tracks in Wyoming. Tomorrow I'm waking up at fuck-all in the morning, oh I mean a few hours later this morning, to drive up to ( Read more... )

Another blow to freedom: Justices Rule Cities Can Take Property for Private DevelopmentI'm not even going to provide commentary for this one because its just so gross. New London feels as much like a hometown to me as Needham does, my body shakes with disgust ( Read more... )

Oil hit $61/barrel yesterday. Wowie!

I switched from one enormous faceless fucking bank (Bank of America) to another slightly less enormous faceless fucking bank (Wells Fargo) because BOA pissed me off again. Transferring my money out of that account felt good, as it seemed to be the only effective yet legal Fuck You at my disposal ( Read more... )

This past week was pretty exhausting, I was pulling 12-14 hour night shifts checking water and pumping levels at a Lockheed plant and then going to see the Sox play the A's with a really good buddy of mine who flew out to chill and watch baseball. Due to my work we didn't really get to chill, and I wasn't able to get more than a couple hours of ( Read more... )

Snails are not particularly well loved here in Alameda. Their crushed and decomposing corpses litter the sidewalk ( Read more... )

So I checked out 5 different pads this weekend, and I narrowed my search down to two different options, one in Alameda, one in Oakland, each with their own positive and negative attributes. It;s a rather difficult choice, and so I'm going to try to get some input. Here are the two scenerios ( Read more... )