July 18, 2005
BROKE
An interesting thread on my post below in re my troll, and my POOR PEOPLE SUCK post from last month.
I've been broke. Lord Goddamighty I've been broke. When I was in grad school I was so broke I lived in a $19,000 house in the ghetto. And I don't mean the "ghetto" in the shabby chic declasse urban gentrification meaning of the term. I mean the ghetto. My address was on Memorial Drive in Atlanta, for God's sake. Ask Rankin' Rob. He was there. But only long enough to cast a jaundiced eye, look at his watch, and say "When the fuck can we leave???"
Broke enough to hand roll my cigarettes, reuse my coffee grinds broke. So broke when I rubbed my last nickel I would pinch the Indian so hard it made the buffalo shit.
I was so broke I even applied for food stamps. My pride refused to allow me in the store, though. Pride being somewhat fungible, however, I did trade them to my next door neighbor, one Alton, aka "Peanut", for some marihuana.
Aye, I've been broke. Recycled newspaper for money. Delivered pizzas. Scraped together enough money not for a bottle of rotgut, but for some week old moonshine from Peanut.
So broke I tried to shake down the black kids I caught freebasing in my crawl space for vigorish.
I've been broke.
But I've never been poor.
There is a difference.
Posted by: zonker at July 18, 2005 11:50 PMHa! I just wrote an entry about being poor. But I think I misused the term. We've been broke all along.
See? Mister Scythe can fuck himself. Your hinky is broke/poor, so you have Proof of your Pudding as a decent chap. It's akin to being able to retort, when called on a retard joke, "my sister is retarded, you asshole, so piss off."
Posted by: kelley at July 18, 2005 11:51 PMKids today are missing out on some of the best parts of being broke...selling coke bottles and milk bottles to buy cigarettes. Selling aluminum cans just ain't the same.
Posted by: Circa Bellum at July 19, 2005 9:29 AMScrew that jerkoff. He came to your blog, read something out of context, and failed to recognize the humour. Perhaps he'd be more amused reading a blog that agreed with everything and just linked other posts all day.
How boring would that be?
Posted by: sadie at July 19, 2005 10:43 AMShit, I'm ALWAYS broke. Broke as I am, though, I take care of business. Poor? fuck those assholes. No matter how broke I was I had the scratch to pay the piper when I danced,(like a fucktard, of course) even if i had to work a couple dead end side gigs to get the extra money.
Posted by: og at July 19, 2005 1:49 PMWow, V-Man -- using "vigorish" is very cool -- I think that you are the only human on the planet that I have seen use it -- except for Lawrence Sanders, and he was The Man. Good job.
Posted by: david at July 19, 2005 10:17 PMYou should tell the tale of the Goodwill trailer...
Posted by: Rankin' Rob at July 20, 2005 12:14 PMMost excellent post!
Posted by: Sandy at July 21, 2005 5:29 AMTo quote Freewheelin' Franklin of those Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get through times of no dope." Lived it man.
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