-He said by the tree. Do you see any others? -What is it? -I don’t know. A willow. -Where are the leaves? -It must be dead. -No more weeping. -Or perhaps it’s not the season. -Looks to me more like a bush. -A shrub. -A bush. -A- What are you insinuating? That we’ve come to …
Test Ad Frank Rolfe recommends that prospective park buyers place a test ad in the local newspaper or Craigslist page to gauge demand for housing in the applicable market. If prospective renters cluster around the ad like fish around chum, the park might be a good bet. If they respond with crickets, you should pass. …
Click That is the sound that the help line for the New York Emergency Rental Assistance Program (“ERAP”) makes when you ask them a question they don’t know how to answer. Unlike most park owners, I think that government can be a force for good. Bubble-up economics works. Trickle-down economics doesn’t. And even if we …
Here’s what Wikipedia says about the game Fuck, Marry, Kill: Fuck, Marry, Kill, also known as Kiss, Marry, Kill, as Bang, Marry, Kill, or as Bang, Smash, Dash, or with other synonyms or arrangements of the terms, is a social forced choice question and answer game. As one source describes it, “[w]e have heard of …
The Unemployed Philosophers Guild sells a lot of hip swag with clever titles that you can use to make people think that you are educated. A friend once gave me a mug from them on which a world map was painted. When you poured warm liquid into the cup, the map would change to reflect …
I have previously described Orangeburg pipe as Al Qaeda’s revenge. The most important thing to know about Orangeburg sewer pipe is that it collapses. When it does that, you have a bunch of tenants with clogged sewers, a DIY leach field, and the state health department up your bung-hole. If you buy a park with …
History is littered with examples of the law of unintended consequences. Here are a few: During the Raj, the British government in India attempted to cull the cobra population by putting a bounty on snakes. Enterprising people started breeding cobras and delivering the bodies of domestically-raised cobras to the collection centers. The result was that …
I fear that I have depleted the canon of western writers. So far, I have referenced Kafka, Gogol, Orwell, Gandhi, Lewis Carroll, and Kafka (admittedly, I find Joseph Heller uninspiring, and references to Proust are just short-hand for long-windedness). But this time, the New York State Department of Health has gone one better, and I …
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Don’t worry – despite the title, this post will not start, “Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure”. It will be short. I am angry that my managers will not get vaccinated. As of today, everyone from age 16 up in New York State can sign up for a COVID vaccine. Before then, everyone …
My first comment about Esther Sullivan’s monograph Manufactured Insecurity (University of California Press, 2018) was that there is nothing wrong with it. There’s nothing right with it, either. In fact, there is pretty much nothing with it at all. But that was before I got past the fourth chapter. The edition that I bought is …