Category Archives: true stories

What’s with Blogger not being able to keep us logged in anymore? I really dig the New Blogger, but It seems I have to log in each and every time I wish to make a new blog post. How irritating. … Continue reading

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Today I spoke with Doug, twice, A Grand Total Of Three Hours Regarding Our Mutual Experience. What is our mutual experience? you might be tempted to ask. You’ll just have to wait for the podcast to be released; I’ll begin … Continue reading

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Click To Play Some observations about my experience in jail…

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One thing you gather when you spend more than half a week in jail is a renewed sense of perspective. (Quick aside: I just Googled around for a good prison adage to apply here, but I wasn’t able to find … Continue reading

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I never would have expected I’d spend time in jail. Ever. Not me. Yet there I was, for four days and nights, through President Lincoln’s holiday weekend. It happened at a Chili’s, of all places. Not some seedy dive, a … Continue reading

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Click to Play There’s a reason I’m walking backward — a somewhat embarrassing reason…

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Social anxiety prevented me from going to the Vloggers/BarCampLA meetup at Canters last night. So the girl and I went to Goodwill instead, where the Fates seemed to be presenting me with a warning, channeled through the appearance of a … Continue reading

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Some years ago, I was waiting in line with friends to purchase Cure concert tickets at the Virgin Megastore in West Hollywood. We were in line with hundreds of other Cureheads for hours, and we became friendly with a few … Continue reading

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I clown about a great many things, but the story presented in this video commentary is true, I promise. Only real Reality can be this difficult to watch. Difficult or not, I’ve recorded this for my own posterity. As for … Continue reading

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What Chris doesn’t realize is that there’s another player involved in this: me. I can now publicly announce that I, Harold “H.J.” Johnson, am currently making a bid for that once-thriving Internet service provider, America Online. Once I’ve made the … Continue reading

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