As you are well aware, I stay away from seedy things. But today Seedy took a bus to me.
Category: extended status update
Aug 29
You Are Personally Responsible for Being Poor
In the wake of a fast food workers’ strike demanding a $15-an-hour wage, one of the best weapons in the fight against such an increase is successful people who feel they’ve made it on their own.
Aug 24
Hair Cutting in America
“This secondary skull coating displeases me,” I tell my barber. “I’d like you to remove it.” “Have a seat,” he says. Earlier I’d looked in the rear-view mirror and saw a combination of Richard Brautigan and The Dude looking back at me. I thought, “I would not hire me. I look like I’m a writer-in-residence …
Aug 17
Socialized Medicine: Friendbloat No Longer Curable with Facebook Decimation
When Langston Hughes wrote “I loved my friend/He went away from me/There’s nothing more to say/The poem ends/Soft as it began/I loved my friend,” he had it easy.