Jeff Gibson

May 22, 2008

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

By Jeff Gibson

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 meanings from gigantic gree...

May 1, 2008

Death Carries a Yellow Abdomen

By Jeff Gibson

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 who's a Scorpio. Hav...

April 24, 2008

UCSC Sets Bar for Responsible Tokage

By Jeff Gibson

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 red scooter. They're ...

April 10, 2008

Dreamscapes Mobilize for Combat

By Jeff Gibson

Tell me when. When? When you're ready. Now.

April 3, 2008

Hypocrisy Clouds Parental Advice

By Jeff Gibson

"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."

February 28, 2008

Dream Voyaging Affirms Existence So Hold Tight to Turtles in Flight

By Jeff Gibson

Time spent sleeping equals one-third. Time spent dreaming approaches infinity. Where would you be without infinity?

February 14, 2008

Bro Battles With Bud Bachelorettes And They’re Both Named Mary Jane

By Jeff Gibson

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 to spark their annu...

February 7, 2008

Big Mouths Desecrate Free Speech

By Jeff Gibson

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 already regretting the...

January 31, 2008

Landlords Extort Innocent Tenants

By Jeff Gibson

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 take a while, but they...

January 24, 2008

Good Planning Beats Any Drug Test

By Jeff Gibson

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 office. Instead, he sat ...

September 24, 2006

Dude, What Are You On?

By Jeff Gibson

In all irony, I never knew my best friend until this summer.

November 10, 2005

Damian Marley @ The Hub 11/6/2005 | Iron Like a Lion

By Jeff Gibson

"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 prodigies to leave the isl...

October 27, 2005

Travelin’ Songs

By Jeff Gibson

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 One Eleven this Hall...

September 27, 2005

He Said, She Said: Take Matters Into Your Own Hands and Get Yourself One

By Jeff Gibson

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 to find booze in such...

May 17, 2005

Pop One Back and Relax

By Jeff Gibson

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 want to feel the pain?