Columnist Embarks on One Last Trip Of Mayans, Moons, Stamps and ‘Shrooms

I took a look around and realized I'm back here again. Finding clues to a riddled life printed on cardboard cereal boxes. Nutritional facts for a starved teenage imagination. Gathering deeper meaning...
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Death Carries a Yellow Abdomen

Google claims I'm doomed to a self-destructive and self-defeating path. That, or I'll find the death and rebirth I've apparently been searching for. But I'm pretty sure I don't intimately know anyone ...
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UCSC Sets Bar for Responsible Tokage

Uncomfortable. As in the feeling I get when a crackhead-turned-probation officer can't stop shouting her paranoid delusions at me from the passenger seat: "The fucking pigs are going to recognize my r...
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Dreamscapes Mobilize for Combat

Tell me when. When? When you're ready. Now.
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Hypocrisy Clouds Parental Advice

"Well, I'm thinking about finding a place in Pacifica. I hear it's really foggy, but at least the rent's cheaper." "You'll fit in perfectly, son. You've been growing up your whole life in a fog."
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Dream Voyaging Affirms Existence So Hold Tight to Turtles in Flight

Time spent sleeping equals one-third. Time spent dreaming approaches infinity. Where would you be without infinity?
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Bro Battles With Bud Bachelorettes And They’re Both Named Mary Jane

Valentine's Day: Aside from Columbus Day, it's probably my least favorite holiday, year in and year out. Maybe I can't get over the fact that both celebrations completely ignore what actually happened...
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Big Mouths Desecrate Free Speech

Time to find an exit. The party had severed since the host made Biggy bounce out, so I didn't have to spot a clock to realize it was a shade past midnight. But halfway through a Hefeweisen, and I'm al...
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Landlords Extort Innocent Tenants

I'm sure I wasn't the only one to ever enter Isla Vista for the first time and think, Damn, if I ever get enough money, I'm buying out the houses on the mountainside of Del Playa Drive. Erosion may ta...
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Good Planning Beats Any Drug Test

Stale urine trickled down the inside of his leg a drop at a time, eventually soaking the black dress socks he'd just bought that morning. He would have laughed if it wasn't for the tension in the offi...
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Dude, What Are You On?

In all irony, I never knew my best friend until this summer.
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Damian Marley @ The Hub 11/6/2005 | Iron Like a Lion

"Ooh, yeah. We're jamming." As coils of smoke spiraled upward toward the rafters of the Hub last Sunday night, reggae aficionados crammed together in anticipation for one of the biggest musical prodig...
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Travelin’ Songs

Looking for live music this Saturday to start your partying on the right note? Need some rock to help shake off that troubling hangover? Well, look no further, because it's time for a ride down Route ...
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He Said, She Said: Take Matters Into Your Own Hands and Get Yourself One

So you're under 21 and all you want to do is get drunk - wait, strike that - all you want to do is get drunk as cheaply as possible. There is no question that Isla Vista is one of the easiest places t...
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Pop One Back and Relax

Oh shit. I'm in the middle of the road. Wait, am I? Fuck the cars Jeff, just keep pedaling. That's it - wait. Shit. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Hey, never mind, this isn't so bad; didn't I wan...
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