Let's just get this out in the open, I've been in a really foul mood lately.  Working on the page has been labored, my concentration is shot.  Yes kids, my job is getting to me.  Underemployment is taking it's toll on my general good nature.  Well, not good nature, how about tolerant nature.  But I try to do my best and send as much entertainment to all of you out there in internet land that I can pack into a web page.  But with people like these, no wonder I'm in a crappy mood.

The Rogue's Gallery Strikes Again!
    Even more about all of those who menace both me and society.

The Pie-Eyed Piper:  His agenda for most any given evening: get liquored up, stumble around Oakland, stagger into my store, knock things over, and play Food Stamp Frenzy!  It's nice to know that my tax dollars are being so well spent.  Let's reward unabashed alcoholics by giving them money, yet have no personal accountability to try to get better.  Thanks Mr. Government Bureaucrat!

The Fairy-Go-Round: This guy's a lot like an amusement park.  (At least like ones in warmer regions.)  He's open 7 days a week; if you wait in line long enough, everyone gets to ride; and groups of ten or more are always welcome.  I consider him a personal nemesis.  In some ways we are similar, but in the ways that count he's my antithesis.  He goes a long way to prove one of my basic premises: just because you're homosexual, it doesn't mean that you have to have sex with every homo you find.

Agents of V.A.G.R.A.N.T.:  Who can turn the world on with their toothless smiles?

The Trash Pickin' Wonder:  Rummaging through the garbage, he strikes at night.  But that's not his full time job.  He works at a restaurant too.  In fact, this month's True Tale of Stupidity is about him.  On many occasions when I walked down the streets of lovely and scenic Oakland he has tried to talk to me as if I was his buddy, but after what transpired the last time that I saw him, there's little chance of him being friendly.  Whoops.

The Guardian Lunatic:  This guy wanders around Oakland in a guard outfit with a badge, and I truly wonder what company would hire someone who hangs out with the homeless.  He has a mechanical trash picker, so I guess that puts him a step above the other maniacs he hangs around.