Archive for April, 2014

Sad Day

Posted: 30th April 2014 by Taxi Hack in Uncategorized
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Had to put down one of my dogs Monday… I mentioned Roadkill before, but never mentioned Riley, my Black Lab. Riley was very old and very sick, arthritic, going blind, and riddled with tumors, and his time had come. As George Carlin said, you aren’t buying a pet, you are buying a small tragedy. Riley […]

Regarding “The Pig Trap”

Posted: 19th April 2014 by Taxi Hack in Uncategorized
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As I have said more than once, the main point of this blog is just simple therapy for me… I just need a creative way to blow off steam, and beating my wife, taking up recreational heroin, or soaking these drunken douchebags down with bear mace and leaving them gasping and writhing in the gutter […]

The Pig Trap

Posted: 14th April 2014 by Taxi Hack in Uncategorized
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America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution (1996) I had a very memorable and thought-provoking passenger a while back that I never wrote about because while I found him fascinating, he seemed […]

Vignette: Snail Trails

Posted: 5th April 2014 by Taxi Hack in Uncategorized
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In theatrical script writing, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting, and sometimes an object. -Wikipedia Sometimes you don’t really have an opportunity to strike up a conversation with people, and sometimes it’s […]