The Way We Live Now: Hobo hamboning it up with a mouth harp harmonica happy hopeless hoe-down tune-playing, without a care in the world or enough lint in our pocket to buy a zeppole, not that we could anyhow. More »
The Way We Live Now: Trying to cover our bad bets. We are seriously bad gamblers. Worse than the average gambler (who is not good, in the first place). There’s an upside, though: coke, models, and booze! Cheap booze. More »
The Way We Live Now: Stealing from the poor. To support the rich, naturally! The other thing we’re doing is stealing from the rich, to support the crooks. Egalitarianism in action!
Who is to blame…
The Way We Live Now: Nursing ourselves back to health. Slowly and painstakingly, we’re seeing signs of life in our most precious damaged institutions. Like Wall Street bonus pools, and bank fees, and…
The Way We Live Now: Ass out. We barely even know what we’re doing any more. Stealing a bus? Living on the front lawn? Buying in before yet another real estate crash? It’s a party!
Some desperate…
The Way We Live Now: Jusssssssst squeaking by. Everything is a close call. We’re dodging from government regulators, we’re scraping up rent money, we’re snoozing through school. Of course, we’re…
The Way We Live Now: Unregulated. No man, god, country or law shall hold us back from our vast material ambitions! What matters is not that no one has any money; what matters is that our malevolent…
The Way We Live Now: Up to expectations. We see the expectations, and we fulfill them, “being all that we can be,” we tell ourselves, while in fact wallowing in the sordid, muddy, lowness. Of…
The Way We Live Now: coming to terms with hopelessness. No use being hoity-toity any more! Our neighborhoods are slums, we live off food stamps, and we work in restaurants. We must accept that we are…
The Way We Live Now: doing anything for love. By “anything,” we mean “anything worth less than $50,” and by “$50,” we mean “assuming we can steal that much from our fellow poor suckers for…