1/13/03 ..."If you've seen the present, then you've seen everything as it's been from the beginning, as it will be forever. - Marcus Auralius...

1/19/03 ..."If there is a Fatherhood of God that is indivisible, then there is a Brothrhood of Man that is not subject to degrees and fractions. Therefore, the persistence of class stratification is unacceptable morally, devisive socially, obstructionst economically and a source of tension which, if not removed, will inevitably provide social instability." - Micheal Manley, "The Politics of Change"...

5/17/02 ..."Serenity is for the Gods-not becoming in a mortal. Better to be partisan and passionate on this earth; be plenty objective enough when dead." - Edward Abbey, "The Brave Cowboy"...

7/17/03 ..."The task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before,and prepare the way for those not yet born". - Margaret Mead...

6/3/03 ..."For all your ills I give you laughter." - Rablais... "In the woods we return to reason and faith." - Emerson... "One earns ones life by spending it; only so does one save it." - Cavell...

12/05/02 ..."If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for laws; it invites every man to become a law unto himself." - Justice Brandeis...

12/26/01 ...It isn'nt the big pleasures that count the most; it,s making a great deal out of the little ones." - Jean Webster...

03/08/01..."Some people can lie all day long with nothing but the facts, and what goes on in most courtrooms is proff enough of that. On the other hand, sometimes a story that stretches a fact here and there can tell more of the real truth of a thing as you're ever like to get". - James Carlos Blake, Red Grass River...

The Blue Bag Bandit
7/10/03 ...Well, thats what the Fat Boy's Institute was calling me back in 19 and 95. Others knew me as, well, me.

But I have paid my dues for being one of, if not the most "successful" bank robbers ever. I recieved a nineyear sentence and three years probation. I have been released to a halfway house in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. I am searching full time for a job that pays a living wage.

In the meantime, whenever I get a chance, I will share with you, dear reader, the contents of The Desperado Journal. I started keeping it on Christmas Day,1985. I was working for Joe's Taxi (irony compounded by irony) in paradise, otherwise known as Carmel, Cali-for-ni-A.

My earliest entries are in storage (I hope) so I will enter them in this blog in no particular chronilogical order. When I get it all down I'll try and organize it before the book and movie offers start pouring in...

Another Day in Paradise
7/8/03 ...Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I'm baa-ack! Yes, it's me the original hyperlink. More soon...