cast of characters:
pop: seasoned world traveler, coffee aesthete, perfectionist
son: uptight prosewriting provocateur
wanda: mountain woman
soulpatch: failed SCAD hack, opportunist, venice beach reject
cashier: current SCAD student
ms. soulpatch (offstage): condescending masculine female
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Archive for November, 2005
Every two or three months, I emerge from my basement chambre to stretch my legs in a journey across town for a perusal of the WW2 section in Book Trader and an attempt to relive Paris through a falafel at Maoz. Such a self-indulgent exercise is justified by predicating the trip upon a work […]
Read the full tableau »there is precious little i can walk to in my ‘neighbourhood.’ although i am honored to visit the candler discount mall (as seen in ‘cannibal apocalypse’) on a biweekly basis, the commercial strip from glenwood to memorial on candler has no less than 6 hairbraiding shops, 3 pawn/title loan shops, and one new place […]
Read the full tableau »The coffeeshop has a different function for the tourist, the dériver, and any transient functionary than it does for the local, or the inhabitant of the city the shop is in. It is less receptacle and more passage. In the home environment, the coffeeshop is a wall, or chamber, against which the imbiber […]
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