After the robbery of Leon Bath (cf. Ep. 6), it is revealed the cabdrivers have been targeted by a Local Drug Gang. It is also revealed that this gang has […]
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Business as Usual: Tire cutter blues
Wednesday night is a slow hell. Downtown chokes with dozens of unneeded cabs, each company representing like a corner gang squaring against the other cliques. Unable to find standing anywhere, […]
Business as Usual: Partytown U.S.A.
Over the summer, some witch ran the drum circle out of the Ped Mall. Now every Football Saturday I laugh my ass off at her, trapped in her tower. I […]
Business As Usual: The Stranger
Taxi Driver Vic Pasternak is back with another episode of “Business as Usual,” a 12-part storytelling series. This edition is an excerpt from ‘All the Help You Need,’ coming soon […]
Business as Usual: The one about the blow job lady
I’m stepped out taking a whiz at one of Coralville’s dozen gas stations. Next I make the rounds for water, fresh coffee, smokes. Four hours to go and then I’m […]
Business as Usual: All hell breaks loose at the taxi shack
Paulie Floyd is fucking pissed. The phone rings and he snatches it up. “Good luck getting home,” he singsongs before slamming it on the cradle, shouting, “Cocksucker!” Our dispatcher hammers […]
Business as Usual: The trouble with Leon
When I get to the taxi shack, everybody’s freaking the fuck out. My dispatcher Paulie Floyd is in the parking yard smoking grass and has three cigarettes burning, two of […]
Business as Usual: Vic’s cab gets taken for a ride
Our taxi shack is south of town and across the river—back where the county used to weigh its trucks. I’ve rolled out of bed late and race into thunderheads all […]
Business As Usual: Iowa City’s favorite cabbie is back with the first of another 12-part series
It’s Wednesday after shift change and relief runs late for our dispatcher, Captain Jerry Nicodemus. The big clock turns meanwhile as phones ring electric and the old…
Vic Pasternak, Russell Jaffe and Kembrew McLeod to read at Gabe’s this Saturday
Vic Pasternak comes out of retirement for a special Mission Creek Festival reading at 2:00 p.m. this Saturday at Gabe’s.