Daily Archives: April 28, 2009

Life in Chinatown: I

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I just moved to Chinatown this April. One of the best things about living in Chinatown? Dozens of produce places that offer fresh, cheap produce. I got all this for under $10. That’s asparagus, eggs, noodles, strawberries, ginger, garlic, onions, tomatoes, snow peas and peppers. And scallions. And parsley. Oh yeah. Limes and mushrooms.

Just… Pathetic.

TB unleashes his dark and fiery side…Hella!

When I was in California me and a buddy used to listen to this show on the radio called Coast to Coast. It’s hosted weekdays by George Norry and weekends by Art Bell. This show is full of crazy stuff with open lines for callers to give their two cents and personal stories about ghosts and aliens and UFOs (with the occasional conspiracy theories). It starts at 10 PM and ends around 2PM (although sometimes it goes on till 3:30 depending on how interesting the topics are).

Anyway, so one night we were sitting at the local park eating Taco Bell (what we affectionately call the G-Spot) and host Art Bell started talking about how he had a guest on the show that was going to talk about hell. We got totally excited because we both had grown up in religious households and for us, discussions of the supernatural were akin to camp fire tales from Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark. Continue reading