Portola Junior High School, 1989.
TO ERNIE
A VERY NERDY BOY. STAY SWEEIT
— LASHANDA PRINCE
ERNIE: ITS BEEN NICE BEING WITH YOU THIS YEAR I’VE COPIED FROM YOU IN ALLMOST ALL CLASSES AND I OWE MY GRADES TO YOU I HATE YOU YOUR STUPID AND IF YOUR DAD IS REARING THIS OR YOUR MOM ERNIE SAYS HE HAS [...]
Approximately 28 days ago, I was laid-off from my job. From the tech industry. For the third time. The first two times I got laid off, I would be panicking around this time. Making cold-calls, finding contacts for development work, updating my resume thinking of “action verbs.”
How do I feel right [...]
Some really quick notes about the mini-blog section on your right:
Starting today, you can now post comments to specific links in the mini-blog. Just click on the number next to the link posted and a pop-up window will appear.
There is a direct link to just the miniblog, in case you want to skip over [...]
For those not in the know: according to the U.S. Census Bureau, we are not the San Francisco metropolitan Bay Area, but now the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan Bay Area.
To most people outside of Northern California, this means absolutely nothing to you. This would be like me saying “Durham-Raleigh” instead of “Raleigh-Durham,” and [...]
Crazy cigarette smoking man: A wiry Ethiopian man that wears a button down shirt and glasses. This guy is harmless, but a trip. He walks up and down Telegraph Avenue, and if you light up a cigarette, he will run up to you and ask for one.
And he does, literally, run up [...]
(Fun fact: when you don’t have a job and you sit around the house all day, you sort of run out of wacky things in your life to write about. It’s true.)
There are two things I have learned while watching Oprah:
Oprah seems like a relatively nice lady, given the fact that she has [...]
(Part 2 in a series. Also, thanks to the Evil Wahine, where I found out about ALL of these DVDs. Since I practically mini-blog half her website anyway, maybe I should just do a kottke and have her mini-blog for me too.)
Para Para Sakura (2001)
Synopsis: “Para Para Sakura” unofficially translates to “Wacky [...]
Mandarin, like always, is… repeat after me… in italics!
(The phone rings.)
Ernie: Hello?
Dad: Your mother tells me you’re not working anymore.
Ernie: That’s correct.
Dad: Have you been looking?
Ernie: No. I’ve slept for 14 hours. The bedsores are the only reason why I’m talking to y—
Dad: WHAT?! YOU SHOULD MOVE [...]
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