Cablog
Subtitle: diary of a cabdriver
By: Dege Legg
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Lafayette, LA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781946160706
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Taxicab drivers; Anecdotes
Other titles: Cab log
Description: "A broke and unemployed musician lands a gig driving a cab through the swamplands of south Louisiana while bobbing and weaving through a nighttime world ruled by drugs, guns, saints, and strippers. In this fuel-injected work of creative nonfiction, Grammy-nominated musician and award-winning writer Dege Legg-aka Brother Dege-recounts five years behind the wheel while documenting the underworld of Lafayette and its Cajun and Creole hinterlands. From the penthouse suites on high to the crack houses on the low, Legg churns out thick-skinned tales about downtrodden derelicts, minor victories for the forgotten, and redemption in the face of it all. CABLOG reverberates with tones of Bukowski, Miller, Chandler, and Kerouac while charting its own new territory of the human spirit"--
Table of contents: title: Motel city. Motel city ; I need a damn job ; Here's the deal ; Training day ; First night on the job ; The journey ; No crack in cab ; Chicken bones ; The black bag ; Hack facts ; The drunken cowboy ; The scorned woman ; The one-armed man ; Roadkill Willie ; Brokeback ; The old-timers ; Fire & rain ; Lump in my throat ; The hive ; The Zydeco pirate ; Moss Street projects ; In the red ; Domestic dispute ; Cops vs. cabs ; Crazy for Jesus ; Wendy ; Xmas in retrograde ; The rules ; The Toyland Battlefield Memorial ; Assaulted by the crack lady ; Year of the knife; title: Trailerville. Trailerville ; The one-armed man, pt. 2 ; A man called Fish ; Tibb ; Scenes from Hurricane Katrina ; The wallet ; The fur hat ; The Deaf mutes ; And the blind shall puke ; Heartstrings ; The Pentecostal party train ; Quest for love ; Old man's balls ; Bubba & the wheelchair lady ; Roll call ; Into the night ; Moonwalk ; The wife's panties ; How to fry chicken ; The yuppie ; The stalker ; The Japanese-Mexican ; Business class ; The sociopath ; The singing train wreck ; A bottle of dead dreams ; Tex Texarkana ; Shiloh Trailer Park ; Body odor lady ; Shop talk ; Top ten things found in a cab ; A crack in the sun ; Chester ; Cinderella ; Cup of piss ; The cell phone thieves ; Randimonium ; Emergency room ; Louisiana serial killer ; Technical knockout.; title: The Grind. Only the dust ; Heart calibration ; The gambler ; Pissing on the stars ; Exodus ; The whirlybird ; Measured doses ; Table for one ; Housewife in the ghetto ; Dead in a tree ; Never get off the bus ; Magnolia ; Fire in my pants ; Notes from the boss ; The gay cowboy ; Queen boobs ; Detox ; Daniel Flaherty ; The leper of St. Francis Motel ; The traiteur ; Fanfare ; Crazy eight ; Crack daddy ; The losers ; Lovers' quarrel ; The speed of light ; Horror and hallelujah ; Dead man motel ; Never forget ; Third world America ; Hooyah ; Christmas in a black hole ; Clothed in flesh ; Q-tips ; Beasts of a sort; title: Nowheresville. The Great Divide ; The way of the gun ; The one-armed man, pt. 3 ; The crazy wife ; The runner ; Mommy's got a hangover ; Texas ; The Okies ; Breaking & entering ; The dildo ; The pukers ; Wide load ; The one-armed man, pt. 4 ; No wives, no debts, or pets ; Bilbo ; The whizzinator ; A stripper named Angel ; Mad Dog 20/20 ; Hope is the only escape ; A man called Pie ; Stuck inside of Mobile ; The can man ; The drug smuggler ; Ox ; The biker ; Crack, Inc. ; Long live suicide ; Cooking with gas ; You ain't shit ; Coke & cock ; The lazy man ; Slave Nation.