This is so cool and hilarious. “Joshie” is a toy giraffe a little kid left at a Ritz-Carlton in Florida. Joshie is also the kid’s favorite toy. [Uh ohs.] So Dad calls the Ritz-Carlton, pretty sure this is going to go very wrong — But it doesn’t. Joshie is fine AND the Ritz-Carlton peeps […]
You might think, looking at this photo, I was not happy with the outfit. That would be untrue. I have been big on hats and bags since birth. I was however really annoyed at the camera operator who wanted me to put down the stuffed cat creature toy. Yeah. That wasn’t going to happen. […]
Today I had this mental hit. I thought, What really matters? And for the first time in my life, I thought, me.
I had — A wonderful teacher in the third grade: Mrs. Ishizu. I could tell you why. Perhaps it is more telling I remember a third grade teacher by name.
When I was a kid — The news was on the TV and I went into one of my Kid Max moments of just knowing and said, Those people are really dangerous. My mother said, Don’t be silly, that is the lunatic fringe, no one will ever overturn Roe vs. Wade. where the […]
I cannot make coffee. Maybe that is misleading. I can “make” coffee. But, no one can drink it. I tried for years too, to make coffee. Till the day I told a friend coming over, Oh cool I will try a new coffee thing. She said, Max, if you make me try to drink […]
Most of my childhood — Has burned or shaken away. Forget mudslides. Which everyone pretends is an aberration, not a regular thing. I remember kids taking pieces –– small pieces because it was rubble — of the roof away from a grammar school I attended. The whole administration building went down during a […]
When I was in Haiti, I watched American tourists throw nickels off cliffs to watch five year olds dive for them. They were dangerous cliffs. They were dangerous dives. We are talking the ocean, cliffs, mad waves smacking cliffs, fifteen and twenty foot dives, rocks all the fuck over, and five year olds. For […]
I told someone once — He had to be more there or not there at all just go away because the way I grew up, I never knew if anyone was coming back for me after they dropped me off. What I maybe left out was, you could not count on the ground or […]
You know some dogs — Cannot be delivered without human intervention? It is true. Some of the Bulldog smushed face dogs simply cannot be born without human involvement. Their heads are too big, their breathing apparatus too complicated, a human being has to be present to help with the birth to keep the puppies […]