humor

The van slowed and lurched as we drove over a hump in the road, a ‘Tope’ as we call them here in Mexico. This was perhaps the 800th Tope we’d encountered on the road from Huatulco on the West Coast to Pueblo, near Mexico city, and we’d only been driving for 20 minutes. Near relatives of the Mexican Tope have…

Yesterday I flew from San Jose, California, to Austin, Texas, via LA. Taking a valuable guitar on a flight is always a little nerve-racking. I used to check my instrument in, protected by a case so hard it must have been forged in a special kiln on the planet Vulcan. Amazingly, the case invariably came…

Monk Dude’s Log: Earth Day 21, 550. 59 solar orbits completed. On November the 5th, when I wailed my first wail in Napier General Hospital, 320,000 other Earthlings also took birth. The day this army of Scorpios emerged into your world was a Saturday. The next day God did it all over again, even though He was supposed…