The police let Tomas stew in the detention cell for a couple of hours. In the meantime, they called in the only Spanish-speaking member of the police force to interrogate the suspect. The patrolman’s name was Montoya; he worked the night shift on the other side of town. Montoya tried to establish a rapport with Tomas by bringing in a cup of coffee, but the Voice kept telling Tomas to keep his mouth shut.
A coworker of mine shared this interesting–and brief–video on Education in a different context. (And the animation was a good match for my meth-y attention span.)
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I ran out of patience
took over
decided who to cut
from the team
everyone swayed
to my arbitrary whims
“Them is Chicago hawks! OK? Them the Blackhawks!”
Peregrine falcons nesting on the (grand old, shuttered, sleeping) Uptown Theatre, plus commentary.
When I open the door to the front porch in the morning, I’m usually greeted by all three varmints: the dog (see every other post by yours truly) and his two best buds, Scrappy Pappy and Da Rat Jr. The mutt nut and his feline…
When my ex-girlfriend and I used to cook together, we’d joke that we were doing Indo-Cajun—her parents are from Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state in India, and I am from Opelousas, a small town on the northern edge of Cajun country in South Louisiana. Our…
The police approached him slowly, and conducted a quick pat-down search. A metal detector revealed that he had a .25 caliber, semiautomatic pistol tucked into his waistband. It was one of those little guns that makes a hell of a bang. The bullets don’t have much stopping power, but up close, it’s a mean weapon. It’s small and easy to handle.
League Report — Week 5
A terrible wailing reverberated across Our Beloved League in Week 5 as the Gridiron Goddess wept and screamed for a sacrifice, sending shivers of horror through the seven teams jockeying for dominance at 3-1. And, although each of us knew that the awful Reaping must eventually begin, no one wanted to be one of the several goats that it took to finally satisfy her.
League Report – Week 4 Recent estimates put the cost of dementia within the developed world at $604 billion for this year, and after last week, many observers have come to believe that the poor coaching and team management on display in Our Beloved League…
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So that today’s date, October 11, 2010, doesn’t pass unnoticed, I wanted to pass along the word that it is National Coming Out Day, a day in which gays and lesbians are encouraged to take the leap of faith and share the most intimate fact…
the law in the helicopter
spots our blue pickup
and we hear the distant siren
of the highway patrol
being vectored in