Tag: The Berkeley Chronicals

• Berkeley Episode 6: Dance of the Sugar Plum Ecstasy Fairies

  

  The Berkeley of my twenties was an era of experimentation. My experimentation was pretty tame, though, and limited to food, sex, and pot. (They didn’t call me White Bread for nothing.) I wasn’t even much of a smoker. Back in college I had made an attempt at coolness that ended after a case of strep…

  Mindy Carlson

  February 6, 2017

  Comedy

  Funny stories, The Berkeley Chronicals

• The Unexpected Banker: Berkeley Episode 5

  Back in the late 1990s the California economy was booming and interest rates were lowering. Refinancing a mortgage was fairly common. (Or so my economist husband informs me…) Apparently our landlord Burt rose of his haze of booze and pot smoke long enough to figure this out, too, and we were given notice to expect…

  Mindy Carlson

  July 10, 2016

  Comedy

  Funny stories, The Berkeley Chronicals

• Berkeley Episode 4: The Education of the Rube

  

  Kristi was the first person I met in the house. She interviewed me only hours after I had arrived off the plane to see if I was “suitable” and would “fit in” in the house. The irony in this will appear later. Apparently the word “Rube” written in secret ink across my forehead told her…

  Mindy Carlson

  March 11, 2016

  Comedy

  The Berkeley Chronicals