Sunday, February 25, 2018

Taxi Doggerel---Swallowed Whole By Taxi

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If anyone isn't getting the message concerning the taxi "death-style" or  "imitating life while you are dying" I giv...
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

I Want To Know Why Seattle's Department of Licensing Believes The Local Taxi Industry Requires 55 Additional Taxis

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Within the next few weeks the City of Seattle will once again hold a medallion lottery for fifty-five City-only plates we do not need.  As I...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Ali---RIP! & Two Passenger Profiles & Coming In March, A Taxi Driver Correspondence Course---You Too Can Learn The Craft In Just a Few Easy Lessons!

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Saturday I was totally shocked to find that my longtime taxi colleague and friend, Tesfaye (Ali) Mekonene, had died a few days previously.  ...
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Monday, February 5, 2018

Again, Back In Seattle---Reminded Once Again Why I Don't Want To Be Here

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Before I go into what fun it hasn't been being back in the taxi, the big local cab news is the sudden closure of that Snohomish County a...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

Again From Paris in January---What The Parsien Cabbie Is Driving & Other Assorted Hodgepodge

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I see Parisian taxis everywhere I go, and of course I am very interested in the makes and models everyone is using.  Be clear, unlike the Am...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Greetings From Epinay sur-Seine Paris & Post-Iceland & Poem

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I am writing from the 25th floor of a 30 story tall building in more-or-less northwest Paris, a neighborhood largely composed of migrants fr...
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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Greetings From Reykjavik & Two Murdered Cabbies 25 Years Apart---How Nothing Truly Changes

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Two themes this week, the first concerning my ongoing visit to Iceland; and the second discussing the past and current dangers of driving a ...
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