Taxicab Journals 1/5/07

I was trying to turn around on Lyndale when this guy started clutching at my door handle. He started to open the door and looked at me blankly. I gestured to the passenger side door. He finally stumbled into the car and said, "Follow my friends.. ururgh.."

The only problem I was in the left lane and his friends were running down the block on the right of the street. The headlights were coming fast behind me so I had to sit in the left lane and block traffic while my fare slouched in the back seat drunk outta his mind. A few minutes and I was swerving ahead of a few cars and pulled over to the right. Couple of his buddies bolted... one drunk skunk hopped in.

"We just gotta go around the block..." my drunk fare muttered.

'What?' I thought. I was gonna get pissed this was a horrible fare. We stopped and one dude was out quick but the other dude pulle out a twenty. Shit! I had no change.. the meter was only 4 something.

"5 bucks minimum fare," I said.

"No problem dude," he said "Take it all and pick me up later cuz I gotta go to White Bear. Call me on your cell now so I got your number. 612-324-2695."

I came back a few hours later after calling the guy again and again to make sure he was serious. A fare to White Bear was too hard to resist.

I got to his address about 3am. A yellow cab pulled behind me. Two shadows started for the Yellow... I opened my door and shouted, "This is the cab u ordered!"

I heard someone say, "Didn't we call Yellow?"

I heard my drunk fare say, "No, this is my cab." Thank God his buddy and him came over.

His buddy says, "I just gotta get dropped off in St Paul. It's on the way to White Bear. Cool dude?"

"No problem," I say.


We get on the freeway, and my drunk fare hands me 60 and says, "Take me to my place."

His buddy disagress when he figures I am being paid off to drop his drunk buddy off first.

"No man I don't want to wait in the cab while we come all the way back," he says.

"Take me to White Bear," the drunk fare replies.

"I am not going to get between you two guys," I say.

"Yes, he was a dictator, but he was killed by a death squad."

What was accomplished by hanging Saddam Hussein? Absoulutely nothing. Saddam was powerless and utterly defeated. Killing him did nobody any good. The Death Penalty is not even justified for dictators. If Saddam was on the verge of using a weapon to kill innocents, then killing him would be justified. But killing him now is just plain barbaric. When will the world ever learn?

Weird Al Havin' Fun

Absolutely Great ! -> www.be-dumb.com I can totally relate to this man!

Girl Eats Bug

A funny video of a girl who eats a praying mantis to get a couple people to go to church. Crazy I tell you. www.upyourvideo.net

The Godfather of Soul and the Bumblin' Stumblin' Prez

I wonder if Gerald Ford and James Brown were friends. We all know they are friends in heaven now. James is probably teaching the clumsy President how to finally move on the clouds. God bless them both!

It is Happening Again and No One Sees It

All Sports Radio is a cover for All Right Wing Radio. Listen to your typical Am Talk Radio commentator-ranters long enough and you can feel the bigotry seep into your bones. This isn’t dumb, ancient Ku Klux Klan bigotry; rather it is a subtle, sophisticated agenda of anti-intellectual, anti-sensitive, anti-live-and-let-live dark emotionalism which is aimed at destroying the exact kind of sensibility that a culture and nation needs to stay sane and safe. What has taken over at the traditional, grassroots media level since the Fairness Doctrine was overthrown in 1987 is the same subtly disguised demagoguery as populism that presaged the evil fascist and communist revolutions in the first half of the 20th century in Europe. The people who run and control these stations and networks are the ones responsible for this evil genius rising again.
I believe it is the same breed of people doing it now who were doing it back then. But I do not dare speculate who that breed of people might be. All I know is that my soul and spirit feels attacked at their essence by the sensibilities of powerful connected people who have pure ugliness lurking beneath their supposed great spirits. These people have taken over crucial centers of media dissemination nodes in America and brilliantly spread their spirit through the culture without one goddamn intellectual (that I know of) picking up what has happened and what it means.

Independent Taxi Network

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Red Collar Work: Taxi Driving

Noah Logsdon
Taxi driving is red-collar work. Most taxi drivers have red necks and haggard faces and brown underwear. However, at Independent Taxi Network the best network of taxi drivers in the nation make taxi driving a new and good experience for both the customers and the drivers. Check the site out!

Noah Logsdon is the exception when it comes to taxi driving. He drives the mean streets of the Twin Cities and never loses his customer's faith. His car is packed with hoods, alcoholics, mothers, gangsta wannabees, the sick, the handicapped, businessman, bar-hopping punks, losers, freaks, gay lovers, psychos, soccer moms, Christians, everyone under the sun. Noah Logsdon treats everyone the same: with respect, courtesy and as if he knew them his whole life.

Noah Logsdon is the co-founder of Independent Taxi Network, a company with a new concept in taxicab service: drivers are recruited for their ability to find addresses and their general demeanor and civility. The drivers do not lease their cabs from Independent Taxi Network; rather, the drivers buy each ride for one dollar from a broad-based, unique dispatching system.

Why Did the U.S. Choose to Disrespect China?

Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent visit to the United States illustrated America's traditional contempt for China and possibly Asian people in general. First of all, the U.S. refused to grant the Chinese request for an Official State Visit. The Chinese President was forced to meet Bill Gates first in Seattle before he was allowed to formally meet with the President of the United States. When Hu Jintao finally did get to the South Lawn of the White House, somehow a Falun Gong heckler received a high-security clearance pass and interrupted the ceremony with cruel and rude remarks directed at the Chinese President. Also at that ceremony, while introducing the Chinese National Anthem, a White House announcer used the offical name of Taiwan instead of China. Nothing could be more grating or disrespectful to a Chinese President than that. Finally, as the ceremony ended, President George Bush prematurely led Mr. Jintao in the wrong direction, then was forced to grap the Chinese President by the arm and pull him back in another direction. The overall impression at the ceremony was that the U.S. has a deep, underlying disrespect for China and only begrudgingly will grant honors to the greatest country in Asia.

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Celebrity Psycho Analysis

Celebrity Psycho Analysis
When you see Rosie lately, there is extra glow about her aura. Mrs Rosie O'Donnell is very happily married to her wife Kelli Carpenter and it shows. She appeared on Conan O'Brien and told of how she converted Kelli's parents to the gay world. Rosie talked about how Kelli was forced to go to Gay's Anonymous as young woman by her parents. Rosie also revealed that as a teenager Kelli revolted and sneaked out of her debutante ball and went to the local lesbo bar.

Mrs O'Donnell also related the funny story of her adventures with her neighbors in Miami. Sean 'Diddy' Combs, being the party animal that he is, often leaves beer bottles and trash in the shared park area between his mansion and Rosie's. Rosie's classic Irish nanny was angered by this activity and threatened to confront the hip-hip mogul. Thank god Rosie O persuaded her not to.

Another neighbor of Rosies, not Shaquille O'Neal, shot off some major-league fireworks from his place one night. Rosie was convinced it was P Diddy and wrote a nasty blog ( Rosie's blog Site) about it. When she found out later that it was not Sean, she sent him a case of Cristal Champagne with a note attached, saying, "My bad, Diddy!"

Rosie will never stop being Rosie. You go, girl!




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Free Radicals Unite

What is a Free Radical? (notice the capitalization)

I am not talking about those molecules that attack your body on the inside. A Free Radical is a beautifully free person, someone who attacks almost all dogmas and creeds, not for perverse reasons, but rather because he/she sees through it all.

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"Is It Throwing Good Money After Bad?"

"Is it throwing good money after bad," Brad Childress asked Zygi Wilf. Brad was referring to the 6 million roster bonus that Daunte Culpepper was set to get for the Vikings in late March.

Zygi at first said, "No, he deserves the money for years of service to the team."

Then the campaign to poison the owner's mind built up steam. Rob Brezinski, vice president of football operations, conspired with Brad Childress to over-stress the implications of Culpepper's knee injury. They basically convinced the owner that Culpepper would never be the same again. Even though all evidence pointed to an excellent healing process for the knee.

Although Daunte said again and again that he felt he would be ready for the start of next season, Childress and Brezinski spread the idea that Daunte would definitely not be ready until next November. They implied this with such conviction that it was repeated on talk radio and in the newspapers as fact.

Then to add more poison to the owner's mind, Childress implied that Culpepper was not working hard enough on his rehabilitation. This was supposedly proven by the fact that Daunte chose to do his re-hab work in his home state of Florida. The truth is that Daunte had been working remarkably hard on his re-hab in Florida and the doctors said he should be ready for start of next season.

Terrel Owens is My HERO

Here is my 2 cents to fill the vacuum of the NFL off-season: Terrell Owens was wickedly railroaded. He lost his season for daring to compare his highness, quarterback Donovan McNabb, to a white guy. Terrell Owens was hated for a long time for being a hot dog, for putting a sharpie in his sock during a game, for talking emotionally and frankly about other players and himself. He is a good guy and a hard worker, but mean rednecks and conservative bigots hate him for having a joyous personality. That is the real reason why he was sent down the river.

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Cosmically Dissatisfied

No matter where I ask it, when I ask it, in what place I ask it, my technical questions about internet-related matters are never fully answered correctly to my satisfaction. What is weird is that I am not some kind of hyper-geek. I just look for straight-forward answers to simple questions, such as, "Who owns domain names?" The answer I get is never quite right. It amazes me.

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MORE BRANGELINA

Before our eyes, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie merge into a single creature with a strange name. So what is this strange creature "BRANGELINA?" Is he/she/it more interesting than a baby born with two heads? I absolutely think so. Just think about it, millions of us, addicted to celebrities, weaned on the distorted life stories of narcissistic, in-the-public-eye monsters, willingly become pathological watchers and wish desperately to become a celebrity ourselves. The best most of us can do is participate in the creation of these public creatures and watch them dance, cry, laugh, emote and suffer under our glare. Most of you probably remember "BENNIFER" and the cruel fate that poor creature had. The magical truth is that we, the public, play a crucial role in celebrityhood, and it is our responsibility to love them right so that they turn them into the kind of creature that we want. Go BRANGELINA!

BRANGELINA

Don't call it BRADGELINA! It is BRANGELINA, people. She calls the shots, can't you all see? Angelina Jolie is inside of Brad Pitt's head, and he is hearing her voices tell him to dye his hair, adopt her kids, and become DEEPER. He doesn't follow Angelina dutifully to important meetings of the United Nations for nothing. He is the back legs in the BRANGELINA costume.

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