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Coming Tuesday Night to The Dodgy

Posted on May 19, 2014

Coming Tuesday night (May 20) to The Dodgy. “The Asshole Book Club Part 3” and possibly a chapter or excerpt from the book “Finn’s Rain.” “The same fist she put through the windshield.  The fist that belonged to a size two insect with evil blonde bangs.”    Still to come later: The Young Martens Life, love, and death within a college (secret) fraternity.  

Coming Soon to The Dodgy: Strange Frat, Assholes, Ms. Weregun, and City Babes

Posted on April 9, 2014

In no particular order of appearance, here’s what’s coming to The Dodgy The Young Martens Life, love, and death within a college (secret) fraternity. The Asshole Book Club Part 3 The assholes got together again recently with two new additions. Things happened. Ms. Weregun It’s not every day, and not very normal, when you see a coffin being carried out of your three-flat apartment building by three buff boys in daisy duke shorts. Unless you live in my building and your upstairs neighbor is Ms. Weregun. (Now Up!) City Babes An interview with actresses Cora Benesh and Jillian Leigh on their new well-received indie film City Baby. The typical Dodgy interview where we find out things like if the duo was a band, what…

She Asked For A Ride, I Said No

Posted on January 2, 2014

So on the first day of 2014 a girl asked me for a ride and I said no. I drove down to Gary, Indiana, to help someone with a documentary he’s working on. It was a quiet, wintry day in murder city. I got lost while looking for an address and was deciding whether or not to turn onto 5th Avenue when on that street a bundled up black girl started running towards me waving her arm. I rolled down my window as she drew closer and asked me if I could give her a ride to Broadway (several blocks down 5th). I said I couldn’t, that I wasn’t going that way and was late for something. And I apologized. She shrugged and went…