archives for Sunday 11 November 2007
lifestyles of the poor and ignominious (written in july, just now posted!)
Sunday 11 November 2007 | someone left a cookie
Here we be, living large at “the poker ranch,” wandering around its green and pleasant land in a daze and looking for the extras and the canteen tent and the makeup trailer. Because we are on a movie production set, right? It’s a Cormac McCarthy adaptation? Or Larry McMurtry? And any second now we’ll bump […]
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how the brujo got his name
Sunday 11 November 2007 | I like a cookie
One winter, while still in his twenties, the Brujo spent his vacation in Mexico.
Afterward he drove to the border to reenter the US, with one carton of cigarettes and one bottle of tequila. The guards scratched their heads and were ultimately unable to accept this paucity of consumption—that’s it?! They peered at him suspiciously. Hair […]
