March 2012
22 posts
The Science and Soul of Charlie Amerika (an...
PRESENTING THE SOUL AND SCIENCE OF CHARLIE AMERIKA (an unofficial chapter of the Big Adventure) ==Saturday== Last night—oy vey. Drank a 40 of Old English and then walked back to the Foster Market for a beast know as a Steel Reserve 211 (also a 40). Why did I do that? Read on. Friday night I wrote the lyrics to six songs. See, this was not random drunken abandon; this was an art...
The Big Adventure: 3478
=Wednesday 21 March== This is life heightened. You have next month’s rent and the money to refill your phone one more time. Beyond that you have $34.78. For groceries, to ride the bus, for everything. You have enough food to last one to weeks if you are careful. 34.78. This is neither good nor bad, this is simply a number. But it is a number highly relevent to your life. Your transit...
Would you work fast food? Would you *really*?
WOULD YOU WORK FAST FOOD—WOULD YOU *REALLY*? In the course of this round of unemployment, I have applied to fast food restaurants.* Let me tell you something, it is depressing. It is depressing and the idea of working at a fast food restaurant is kind of humiliating, but we do what we have to in order to survive. It is also weird; I worked fast food when I was around...
The reality of being unemployed these days
I lost my last job in April of ‘10. Basically, I was an admin. also doing accounts payable, some HR, some customer service, and I was the notary for the company. They fired me, didn’t give a reason, whatever. It was the best job I had ever had. I made $17 per hour and got a quarterly bonus anywhere from $1000 to $2000 after tax.
Arizona got ugly in a political fashion and we were...
Rubberbandits--I Wanna Fight Your Father →
“This swing to the right in this country does not surprise me. The prejudice...”
– —sba
Looking for work, episode 492
Monday. Check in with Indenture-Temps. Send an email about an office manager job. I now have $40 and my rent for April and that’s it. I texted my aunt and uncle seeing if I can borrow a couple hundred more but it is looking more and more likely I will be going to California within the next couple weeks to sell my car.
I still love it here in Portland and am going to stay; for one thing,...
“Sunday evening. Watching videos of the Spinners from the 70s. You have to be a...”
Since I have been here I have drank...
One bottle of rum (actually more, I have been drinking from two bottles)
Part of a bottle of vodka
Half a bottle of sake
A quarter of a bottle of brandy
A gin and tonic
Thirteen beers
I have been here since Tuesday,
Yeah, I think I am going back to not drinking where I am staying again. Not good at all. I have just been desperate to escape and I certainly have, but it’s a delusion. ...
“Regarding Santorum. You ever notice how it’s always the right wing...”
– —sba
Looking for a Fight →
(This is about the war in the Phillipines in the early 20th Century). I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t really taught about this in high school. It was “We fought the Spanish in Cuba and Manila in 1898” and that was it. This was actually a long, drawn out war and lots of Filipinos died
“I would like to think I am the most worthwhile fuck up you will probably never...”
– —sba
“My vanity needs to reassert itself. “If you keep drinking like this you...”
– —sba
Want to fix the country?
We need to make intelligence cool. We need to raise the standards for teachers and pay public school teachers enough to attract the best educators we can. Also, we need to limit class sizes to ten. That’s right, ten. This requires building more schools? Good, lots of builders are out of work after the Crash.
This will cost a lot of money! Yes, but the rewards will be vast. ...
“It amuses me that people actually believe the War on Terror is about...”
– —sba
“I have my rent for April and $60 and that’s it. I hate to ask my aunt and...”
– —sba
The curse of certainty
OK, I decided that my pancreas does not get a vacation. No. I emailed him, told him to get back on the job. When I heard him back in his cubicle, muttering obscenties and tweeting something about “OSHA”, I poured myself a glass of rum, let the warmth counter the chill in this room, and wrestled with my thoughts.
I was a weird kid. I supposed that is obvious considering I am a...
The Jim Bomb, Mark IV--karaoke again
THE JIM BOMB, MARK IV Tonight was a karaoke first for me; someone brought a tambourine. There was another birthday and by 11 there was a drunk girl circle everytime one of them “sang.” There were some great singers tonight (one guy had the balls to do “Heroes” and pulled it off), and there was one guy who sang Break On Through like Frankenstein. It was seriously...
One step closer to making kick ass turkey burgers
ONE STEP CLOSER TO KICK ASS TURKEY BURGERS One of my many pet projects is making a turkey burger good enough that you don’t miss a real hamburger. There are two obstacles: One is that turkey burgers, not having as much fat as beef, can get dry. Also they aren’t as flavorful. So, I add fresh lime juice and Tabasco jalapeno sauce to the meat along with a shitload of fresh grated...
The Big Adventure: SE Portland Interlude 2
SE PORTLAND INTERLUDE 2 —Friday— Today I am being the most useless person on the planet. I read Andy Taylor’s—(Duran Duran)—book, finished a book on cover bands, and am halfway through one on the Cure. It’s all light reading right now—simple entertainment since I don’t have my computer. Didn’t even leave the house, just being useless aside from doing some...
The Big Adventure--Smelly Boy Towels
SMELLY BOY TOWELS —Sunday— Mark offers to drive me back but he has already helped out too much by letting me use this computer. On the bus back that night I see some sort of Nick Nolte apparition staggering off to frighten the night in his Member’s Only jacket. —Monday— Today has been a cluster. This other agency insisted I feel out an application on line after I...
