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“Still Coughing Like Crazy”
Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi 📓 Friday, November 14, 2025 — 9:34 p.m. Still sick tonight. Still coughing… sometimes that shit hurts. I was thinking earlier about loops — growing up wondering if anything I’m doing is any good at all. While the shower steam filled the bathroom, I was decompressing — just occupying my… Continue reading
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“Touch Being Late”
Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi 📓 Thursday, November 13, 2025 — 10:40 a.m. Sitting here in my comfortable chair in front of the TV, coughing away my lungs. Trying to relax — if you can call it that — while coughing so hard it hurts. Soon I’ll be touching the streets again with my white… Continue reading
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“Transmission”
Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi 📓 Saturday, November 8, 2025 — 7:54 p.m. I am again attempting the act of writing. My left index finger is bandaged — I put a bandaid that’s now ragged from moving cases of plastic bags through L.A. Trying to move my bags of cases with my van parked on… Continue reading
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“The Midnight Ice Cream Truck.”
Grand Theft Auto 3, East L.A., and a neighbor’s “ride” that didn’t need a key. Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi Back in 2001–2002, I was an usher at Dodger Stadium. One of my coworkers, Arturo—Art—became my boy. Looked like a cholo (shaved head, mustache, heavyset) but he wasn’t; chill, funny, good dude. After late games… Continue reading
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Ease Back Into Motion (The Loops We Live In)
Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi 📓 Captain’s Log — Thursday, November 6, 2025⏰ Wake-Up: Alarm hit at 5:30 a.m., but I ignored it. Still running on broken sleep. Finally got up around 6:20, made my coffee, cleaned up, and tried to shake off that fog. Been feeling a bit under the weather — had one… Continue reading
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“How I Accidentally Found History at 17”
When I was 17, I was going to night school — trying to make up for all the F’s I racked up in regular school. My dad would drop me off, and I’d get out around 9 p.m. Sometimes I’d wander the campus after class, just walking and thinking. One night, I saw something on… Continue reading
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“The Day Brad Pitt Almost Ran Me Over”
The most famous person I’ve ever met? Brad Pitt. Back when I used to work at a hotel in Beverly Hills, I ran into him a few times—but the first time was unforgettable. It was early afternoon, maybe around one o’clock. I was hauling furniture near the parking lot, pushing a heavy cart back up… Continue reading
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The Meow Holiday
Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate. If I could invent a holiday, it’d be called Meow Day. It’s inspired by my cat, Simba — a little orange furball who used to suffer from depression because he was always locked up inside. So, I bought him a harness — green with constellations… Continue reading
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“The Day Willie’s Radio Betrayed Him.”
What was supposed to be a normal delivery run turned into the kind of story that lives forever in hotel locker rooms. Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi Back when I worked at a hotel in Beverly Hills, the guy who trained me to be a houseman for housekeeping—his name was William. But everybody called him… Continue reading