I went out tonight to meet Toshio and June to hang out for a little while and talk music for our upcoming gig in May. They weren't meeting until 11:30 which is something I have spent so long hating - not STARTING the night until so late - and I'm slowly getting better at adapting to it. So I went out, and I stopped at the 24 hour Kinko's to make copies of the flyers for Trivia Night, which I am so grossly behind on putting up.

This is the SECOND time I have gone to the "24 hour" Kinko's only to find it closed. They seem to have cut back their hours in the face of the economic disaster. It would be nice if the website reflected this. So I was already pissed off when I was on my way to the bar.

I got there and the night itself at the bar was rather fun. Good company, good convo, nice eye candy. I left around 1:30 and knew I needed to make a late night grocery run, which in this town is fucking IMPOSSIBLE.

So I went down into the subway - Broad Street Line, basically *THE* main line in town - and waited until 2:50 for a train. I finally went upstairs and looked desperately for any indication of human life or a poster showing hours, and I finally found one tiny brochure folded out and taped up that indicated that during late night hours you had to take a special "Night Owl" bus instead of the train.

If this is the case, why is there even fucking access to the train platforms to begin with? Why don't they just lock the shit down for the night?

Then when I got on the bus 20 minutes later, a COP CAR swerves in front of it and stops it. He gets on and gets into a screaming match with the bus driver. Apparently some girl got off the bus a few stops back and complained about some incident with another passenger, I dont' know the details, but this cop was RAGING with violence. Which he turned on us, the passengers, because naturally some of them were upset with the whole incident.

I know we're supposed to appreciate cops because they put their life on the line to protect us, but why is it that EVERY encounter I have *EVER* had with a cop involved the cop acting like an ignorant, violent piece of human shit? EXPLAIN TO ME.

When all was said and done, I didn't get home until almost 4AM.

Stay classy, Philadelphia...