October 27th, 2008 by Pete Nicely
July 11, 2011
Rick Vasquez remembers how traffic used to be on the 110 Freeway. At one time it seemed like a sea of stalled cars puffing out gray smoke was a necessary torture he had to endure every morning to get from Norwalk to Downtown LA where he worked at Cal Trans.
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October 20th, 2008 by Pete Nicely
“If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.”
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Former Secretary of Defense
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October 13th, 2008 by Pete Nicely
Something was wrong. Principal Schneider and Vice-Principal Berg had never been in our classroom for longer than a minute—except for a Holiday party. But now they were hanging around, hovering, whispering at each other and ruffling through things on Ms. Gold’s desk and pretending as if we weren’t watching everything they did.
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October 7th, 2008 by Pete Nicely

If you’re like me, you’re practically paralyzed by a very nasal inner critical voice that sometimes assumes the nickname “Cooney.”
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October 6th, 2008 by Pete Nicely
God, I hate it when I’ve cough like this. It’s bad—I’m always coughing. My daughter said I’ve had a cold since the day I began to look fifty. But this thing is bad—it’s like broadcasting exactly where the mucus in my body has settled.
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September 29th, 2008 by Pete Nicely

I hate Internet memes. I’ve always hated them—even when they were just inside jokes, sly shared references that make friends laugh and non-friends anxious and alone.
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September 22nd, 2008 by Pete Nicely
Remember school elections. Remember the kids who ran and won. There was the rare charismatic kid who stepped up, won and then wondered why she ever wasted her time. Who wants to be in charge of bullshit?
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September 15th, 2008 by Pete Nicely
If you can answer “Yes” to any of these questions, you must vote yes on Proposition 8.
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September 8th, 2008 by Pete Nicely
John McCain pulls ten points ahead in the polls, and you don’t get it.
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September 1st, 2008 by Pete Nicely
I need you to meet the most dangerous person on earth. This sick fuck threatens your life, gets in your head and invades your privacy in ways that even your mother or the Bush Administration would never consider.
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