Upscale bums in Beverly Hills
Great article. I think this might foster some conversation. Hawaii is another place where the bums have it good, not because of rich people but because of free showers at the beaches, wild food, fishing, and the throwaway society of tourism. cd BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Being homeless in...
Flying sucks worse than the dentist, death row, urban survival?, Obama moves to the center, and another foot found in the Northwest
I got a gaping hole in my molars filled this morning and while that was happening discussed how terrible it has gotten to fly lately with my dentist and hygienist. Here are just a few of the things we came up with at 8 am while my gums were...
Banning the homeless, stealing coffee beans, Japanese suicide, Russian enemas, and ecoterror.
Honolulu council member Rod Tam has introduced a bill that would ban sleeping or lying down at bus stops. I think this is a great idea. Bus stops should be for bus riders. And they should look like this: The problem with letting the homeless use bus stops as...
The Holographic Universe, God, the monkey and the fire hose, and living in small houses
In fact, I’ve never read The Holographic Universe, but as pointed out by Ryan G. it does begin to sound a lot like spirituality ala Gurjieff, Buddha, Watts, and Fuller. The point of the theory is that our material reality is all an illusion. The proof of this is...
Japanese man finds woman living in his closet
TOKYO (AFP) — A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police said Friday. The 57-year-old man living alone — or so he thought — in the...
Squirrel taming Seattlite gives up treehouse for RV
I bet he is bummed at having to leave the treehouse. If our society allowed you to build your home in an unused area, a lot of folks that are homeless, wouldn’t be. Check out the comments on the Seattle P.I. website. Also have a read at the other...
Pictures from Hitchhiking Across America
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Paycheck to paycheck is harder than ever!
Check out the following article and then do yourself a favor. Get a copy of Rough Living: An Urban Survival Manual so that you can make your money stretch a little bit further. NEW YORK – The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder. What...
wiki how: How to become a Hobo
This is great advice! http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Hobo How to Become a Hobo Historically, many people have been forced into becoming hobos because of circumstances where jobs are so scarce that they have no choice but to travel from place to place in search of work. There are many theories of the...
Hobo superhero from the golden age of comics – Boing Boing
“Again With the Comics” has an article about a hobo superhero named “The Vagabond,” who debuted in U.S.A. Comics #1 in 1941. Like many handsome millionaire playboys/crusading district attorneys/ frustrated beat cops of comics’ Golden Age, Murphy decided to fight crime anonymously by taking on the dramatic secret life...