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Greetings from Grand Isle

Less painful detox tip #1: pic.twitter.com/uyOGNd0e3B — Jo Custer (@CabFareNO) February 11, 2016

July 11, 2015: Sierra Lindqvist guest wailing on “I’m a Commodity” with U.S. Nero. After weeks of isolation during which only the introduction of Spirit Kitten to my life has interfered with my writing and the painting and fixing up of my place, I went out and interacted with people last Saturday night. My friend Michael Kunz, who I will forever adore for being a male feminist and giving me a…

Cab Fare: Episode #8, Pt. II

  My favorite personality among the dispatching staff, Dave Brown explains the peculiarity of the cab business as a whole like this:

“There’s no room for wasted time in the cab business. We don’t have a real, physical location like most businesses where people go and waste time. They waste time at the bank, at the grocery store, and then they call up to waste our time because that’s what they do…

Cab Fare: Episode #8, Pt. I

New Orleans: Prettiest from a distance. (St. Charles Ave at Poydras St.)

Although I can’t recall her name, one of the most sensible approaches to our problem known as the “service industry” came from a young woman I met on a Greyhound bus while en route to spend a couple of months with my grandmother on the Continental Divide in Montana. She was traveling home from college in Ohio somewhere to…

Dear New Followers: Please Bear With Me…

Hey, there!

When I wrote the last Cab Fare episode, I hadn’t anticipated attention from Word Press editors via the ‘Freshly Pressed’ vehicle WP uses as a means of driving its community. I definitely didn’t anticipate my following exploding to over 13 times what it was.

I have tried my best to sift through hundreds of user profiles and dozens of blogs. I have at least made a start. Please bear…