Dirt Lease https://dirtlease.com/ Idiot-Proofing the Mobile Home Park Business One Idiot at a Time Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:11:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 171109800 The Middle, Excluded https://dirtlease.com/the-middle-excluded/ https://dirtlease.com/the-middle-excluded/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:11:28 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=2027 At the Dirtlease corporate retreat, Legal, Economics and the Founder wandered away from the group looking for a place to piss. ‘Dude’, the Founder told Legal.  ‘Do not hook up with HR.’ Economics bent a sapling branch and snapped it back at Legal. ‘Ow.’ ‘It would be wrong on so many levels.’ ‘You take care …

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]]> https://dirtlease.com/the-middle-excluded/feed/ 0 2027 John Henry https://dirtlease.com/john-henry-2/ https://dirtlease.com/john-henry-2/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:29:41 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=2017 In the Dirtlease cafeteria, Legal and Economics saw Bot sitting alone.  At the table to his left, a bunch of women from HR sat talking about eating and whatever else – Legal thought – women talk about when they are alone.  To his right, two men and a woman from Security sat eating crayons. ‘You …

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]]> https://dirtlease.com/john-henry-2/feed/ 0 2017 Reasonable People https://dirtlease.com/reasonable-people/ https://dirtlease.com/reasonable-people/#respond Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:50:03 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=2014 In the Medias Res, the Bartender placed six half-filled pints of Guinness on a tray.  Lined up in front of the pint glasses, like pawns in front of higher-order chess pieces, were six shot glasses filled with milky liquid.  The Bartender twitched her tail feathers the way she did when she wanted tips. ‘Hey’, the …

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]]> https://dirtlease.com/reasonable-people/feed/ 0 2014 Grass Mud Horse https://dirtlease.com/grass-mud-horse/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:36:44 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=2010 ‘The Comptroller calls me ‘Tempura’’, the Founder said.  He was sitting behind his desk with his hands underneath the keyboard shelf.  A large bruise extended from the bridge of his nose to the crow’s feet on his right eye.  ‘Why is that’, AP asked. ‘She likes me lightly battered.’ AP threw a side-glance at Operations.  …

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]]> 2010 Pork Chop Hill https://dirtlease.com/pork-chop-hill/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:27:17 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=2006 When the bartender asked the Founder if he wanted another mezcal, he asked her, ‘What’s the chance that that jackdaw you are seeing flies into a window?’ ‘He’s waiting for me at home’, she said. ‘You know how you say ‘jackdaw’ in Czech?’ ‘What’s bothering you?’ She ruffled her tail feathers as she asked.  That’s …

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]]> 2006 Waters https://dirtlease.com/waters/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:31:53 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=1974 Usually, when the Founder sat in the Media Res drinking, he thumbed his phone, but this night was different from all other nights.  The phone sat on the bar and the Founder stared at a space behind the mirror that covered the wall behind the bottles of gin, single-malt Scotch and high-end bourbon.  It is …

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]]> 1974 Chicken Ranch https://dirtlease.com/chicken-ranch/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:56:27 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=1972 Recently published in The Brussels Review. No Belgian jokes, please.

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]]> 1972 The Ding an Sich https://dirtlease.com/the-ding-an-sich/ https://dirtlease.com/the-ding-an-sich/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:22:22 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=1961 The Ding an Sich At a table in the back of the Media Res, the Founder sat with a rainbow and a unicorn.  ‘Where the hell were you guys in Hamilton’, he asked.  ‘I could have used you.’ ‘Dude’, the rainbow said.  ‘’There’s two of us.  There are how many of you?’  If he had …

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]]> https://dirtlease.com/the-ding-an-sich/feed/ 2 1961 The Sound of Liberty https://dirtlease.com/the-sound-of-liberty/ Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:10:32 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=1951 Dirt Lease is going global.

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]]> 1951 I Wrote an Article for Business Insider.  They Paid Me 300 Bucks but Their Editing Sucked https://dirtlease.com/i-wrote-an-article-for-business-insider-they-paid-me-300-bucks-but-their-editing-sucked/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:20:05 +0000 https://dirtlease.com/?p=1938 Business Insider is a website.  Business Insider does not publish writing.  Business Insider publishes content. Here are the titles of some articles published on Business Insider: In August, the Founder wrote an article for Business Insider.  The article was originally titled, I Left Big Law and Bought a Mobile Home Park.  I Work a Quarter …

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