Back in high school, I took an accounting course that taught me the meaning of the term “FOB.”  Free On Board.  It is used to determine who pays the shipping.  When I came to San Francisco, I learned a new, and more definitive, meaning: FRESH OFF the BOAT.  New Asian immigrants.  Heavily accented.  Caricature specimens. [...]

It’s a quarter to midnite Wednesday night.  I just walked past Reuben’s room.  I stopped and listened.  To my surprise, he was not snoring. After Reuben was gone with his boyfriend to the Caribbean’s for a Christmas cruise I was shocked when he came back and I heard his snoring through the walls again.  Two weeks was all [...]

Dear Diary Help me.  I’m not sure if I know how to write interesting stuff anymore.  But I try!  I try really hard.  In fact, I get stoned almost EVERYDAY.  It’s not for my personal enjoyment, I tell myself.  It’s for my art.  My art is a crusade: to find meaning (where there is none); [...]