According to an Associated Press story out of Baton Rouge, a bill that would have made it a crime for people to wear their pants too low in public has been rejected by a panel of the Louisiana state senate. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Derrick Shepherd, would have made it illegal to wear clothing […]
Author: Laurie MacFayden
home again
what a country. the drive from toronto to edmonton is horrible. at least that’s what i always thought, based on the first time i drove it back in march of 1980. but i was only 22 then, and … well, it turns out i didn’t know anything at that age. in fact, the drive this […]
check engine
you never want to be on day 2 of a 5-day drive and have your “check engine” light start winking at you from the dashboard. but that’s what happened in the suburu (AKA jupiter 2; the buick is voyageur when we’re communicating via walkie talkies — damn these new-fangled communication devices!) yesterday as we were cruising into […]
gone again
the first time i rode across canada was on a greyhound bus, the summer of ’72 … i was 14, my friend anne was 16, and our parents — remarkably — had given us permission to spend six weeks on our own, just the two of us, traversing the country, with stops along the way […]
miss e
she landed in our cornfield. not, like you may have heard, in the bermuda triangle or somewhere in the pacific, but in a soft patch in auntie’s north 40. and she liked it so much, she just stayed. our house was small, and nothing fancy; just some wood and brick and not even indoor plumbing […]
how to tell when you’re being left by a heartless girl
it starts with her saying it’s all her; it’s not you. it starts with her saying she just needs some “space.” she will say she still loves you and always will. she will hold your hand and beg your forgiveness. she will let go of your hand and cry. she will let you sleep with […]
somehow the world
superman’s dead and so, now, is moses and cool hand luke and our brokeback fantasy along with, some might suggest, every soothing shade of blue that ever used to exist and somehow the world still turns they’re building another ice rink in this frozen shinny-obsessed city but new orleans is still under water and well-intentioned […]
she’s tired
of harper / bush / cheney / afghanistan / winter / whiners / iraq / iran / china / heath ledger / heathrow / death row / deadbeats / dieters / britney / bertuzzi / barrack / hillary / banks / cellulite / transfats / SUVs / brand names / bran / brain-dead baristas who […]
