I am prudently homeless. Impromptu inspiration led to my shedding of material excess and leaving for another continent. I welcome this liberation as my adventures begin.
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Today I made fried egg on toasted bagel and hot tea with only one functional hotplate, broken faucet, and most kitchenware still packed away. Here’s how.
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Craiglist community has recently started cracking and flagging down low/no pay freelance film gigs – this is why.
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When I moved to LA six months ago I was excited to furnish and equip my new heaven. I set out on my shopping sprees, browsing the much-needed goods, but leaving empty-handed and disappointed. All because of that niggling thought in the back of my head… “I can get it cheaper online.”
Sometimes I feel we got tricked, duped, with that internet and all. Back in the day, we were promised the information super-highway, connecting people from distant lands in a matter of seconds, and all the grotesque and obscure pornography you could ever yearn for. But the more I read the internet, the more it seems a ruse, a clever mechanism that feeds on us. On our anger.
A few years ago, I had the opportunity made the horrible mistake of taking a greyhound bus from California to Arizona. Greyhound™, being a kind monopoly that they are, made sure the provided service is as horrendous as possible and all the costumers are treated like sheep. And you know it’s bad when the fact the trip takes some 13 hours in a cramped seat on a bus is actually one of the better parts.
Most of your typical community service experiences follow a similar pattern of interesting, yet demanding work, filled with many new challenges, revelations and a profound feelings of self-fulfillment and satisfaction. My community service experience, however, was quite… different.