September 27, 2004
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Update: Terrible Terry strikes again!
I recently blogged about Terrible Terry , the drunken cowardly thief
who runs the stand next to mine at the flea market strip, aka Felony
Flats. One reason the landlord and I want him out of there
is because he tends to ignore property lines, spreading his stuff onto
other folks’ footage at will. Well, he outdid himself this
time. He–or someone in his crewe–parked this big-ass
Chevy Suburban right where I set up my tables and carts. It was
there over the weekend, and it was no problem, since it was raining and
snowing. But it is still there today, and may well still be there
tomorrow when I want to set up.(Digression on the Suburban–in case you are not familiar with the
beast, it is, I think, the largest passenger vehicle Chevrolet makes,
just a tad smaller than recently-introduced grotesque behemoth from
Ford, the
Excursion. It is a venerable breed, harking back to the
late 30s or early forties, and is much beloved of Alaskans–it is
tough,
reliable, and you can haul half a cord of firewood and a dead
moose in one.)Anyway, I went to the office to see if they knew what was going on with
Terry. One of the dopers who hangs out at Terry’s stand told me that Terry
is due to go to prison soon for his recent drunk driving
escapade. I could see him parking the darn vehicle on my space
and snickering. I talked to the landlord’s wife, and she
thanked me for the info, adding that they were going to serve him with
an eviction notice that very day.Woo hoo–one less felon on the flats!
Comments (4)
a good house cleaning always makes me smile too!
I’m guessing Terry is already feeling like a victim because of the jail time for drunk driving. He’s not likely to understand that he asked for the eviction, either.
I am pleased for you that he will be gone. It is hard to have people like this around you and I sympathize with your situation. I know he has problems and I don’t like to sound “nasty” but the whole suburban bit angered me. That is just downright rude. Then to hear he would “snicker” over that. How shallow to get pleasure out of knowing you annoyed someone. I hope that the jail time will help clean his act up a bit before he destorys himself and anyone in his path…have a great day and I am glad it will be without him around…huggs…Sassy…Happy “sales” to you…
hello…I found you via SuSu whose reflections and memories have had me sitting here for hours and saw this…Gibson is AMAZING…I live in San Francisco and have for half my life so Virtual Light is one of my favourites. Hell, I think it’s time for every countercultural or sympathiser thereof to go to SF and just gather on the Bay Bridge and do it up like in that book. I have fantasies about this constantly.
I recently read his latest book Pattern Recognition and whoa that one is now my favourite, because it’s not set in the future but in the present time, his first novel that’s not exactly science fiction but it really has no genre at all, I would call it cyber-social commentary maybe but that’s too close to cyberpunk, and it’s not that, so that one doesn’t work.
It’s about a woman whose daddy disappeared when the towers got hit by terrorists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBush’s pals from Saudi Arabia or whoever he had give PNAC their fucking Pearl Harbour (pardon my french, but this thing really bothers me) and this woman is allergic to corporate logos, like, physically cannot deal with them. I identified with her so much. She sits on the internet studying weird video footage and gets embroiled in an imbroglio. If you want to read it I could sent it to you.
Alaska sounds like it would suit me more than I knew. I’ve been wanting to get out of the united states though and last time I looked Alaska still is one of them…but man, things are getting really bad down here. They eradicated every last hit of LSD in the country, which as I have pointed out to SuSu, gives some indication as to one cause of its current condition. Seriously, the day those two poor guys in Kansas got popped (they’ll be in prison forever and they’re gonna let MARK DAVID CHAPMAN out – NAZIS!) that was the day everything changed, not September fucking eleventh. God I hate how they packaged that up and sold it as entertainment and now they’re doing the same with Iraq. You got it right on the nose with that animation to the left about outrage and attention. I’m trying hard to wake up some souls but it’s hard.
sorry for meandering, I’m not a “clean and sober” person, so I do that a lot.