Antigua, Guatemala:
Traveling on a 22 hour Chicken bus from Nicaragua to Guatemala, I met one of the most dangerous people I have every encountered. His name was Garcia and he claimed to have been thrown out of the U.S. three times and to have killed men in Honduras, el Salvador, and Guatemala. Though he came off as being a heartless murderer, he proved to be sensitive, kind, and even offered to pay for my hooker once we reached Guatemala City. I respectfully declined but was happy to have met his acquaintance.

This is the photo I snapped as our bus was getting searched at a checkpoit in el Salvador.  Garcia is in the red hat up front. The man in the grey polo in the backround is trying to warn me to not take any pictures of this process. (Pryer San Diego 2009, all rights reserved)

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If we were obliged to love all the people we find attractive, things would be pretty ghastly, don’t you think?-from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust-

(CHINATOWN, BOSTON) - I am the only man left at the Boston offices (I’ve moved in) and they call Duke “The Boston Marmaduke”? Makes a load of sense boys, but then again I got my nickname from CSPAN–about the most bland source you could find–when looking in vain for that hot piece Geraldine Ferraro, I watched Sen. Abraham Van Dognose address the floor. He is a courageous Senator born into a poor Bavarian neighborhood ten miles east of Berlin, New Hampshire. After leaving Colby, Sen. Dognose wrote fake stories for a psychadelic farmer’s almanac distributed along the White River in the 1960s. But, I digress talking about heroes; this world is in need of no heroes for we haven’t a clue what to do with them…certainly not learn anything from them.

I remember a time not too long ago when fake news was a powerful and critical source of information. The days of throwing glass ashtrays against some poor neighbors window just to know when to watch “ER”  are over. The iPhone is so annoyingly useful, people are going to want to shit through them.

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Major League Baseball announced today that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games for violating its drug policy. Rumors are swirling about the specifics of the violation but I the Chief think its related to the medical marijuana prescription written by Doctor Nick Riveria in 2007 for hamstring fatigue.

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