Field Notes

Between blue collar and unemployed

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When people insist on telling you about the way things used to be half the time they don’t know what they’re talking about and the rest of the time they’re full of shit.

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I'd imagine more servants hate their masters than not.

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Just because something is in front of you doesn't mean it belongs to you. Just because you can see it doesn't mean you can touch it. A clear path doesn't guarantee a destination. That's why flies die in windowsills.

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I want the infinite journey. Where the sky meets the sea. That’s where I want to go - where I can never arrive.

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Beset on all sides by the ineptitudes of stupid men.

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I'd Take the Shot

I've never seriously entertained the fantasy in my life and I don't believe anyone who has never killed someone could truly speak to whether or not they were capable. But if somehow, someway, I found myself magically holding a high powered sniper rifle from a safe vantage - I believe I would put a bullet in that orange bread pan.

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Youth will always be lied to and judged by an older generation's false nostalgia.

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The Republican party has been in the midst of an identity crisis for years and now it has been defined by a pop culture joke. The Democrats lost the election but the Republicans have lost a great deal more.

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A step in the right direction doesn't mean you've met your destination. It never has.

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The Home Depot

Whenever I get a Homer Badge, a Bravo card, or some employee-of-the-month plaque in lieu of a living wage for the more than ten years of service I've given The Home Depot, I think about Marie Antoinette telling the French peasantry they can eat cake. Then I think about guillotines.

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RIP John Berger. You gave our hearts the worth of our sight.

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Sure. We're all happy to see 2016 come to an end. But remain vigilant. Check behind the shower curtain, under the bed, and the backseat of your car before getting in. 2017 is not safe.

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Blessed are the schizophrenics that hear benevolent voices.

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Can't help but wonder how greatly improved our political discourse would be without sports metaphors.

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My old boss had braces. My new boss has sleeve tattoos and talks about things being 'epic.' I'm 42.

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Sometimes burning a bridge is an act of stupidity. Sometimes you burn a bridge to make sure you can never make the same mistake twice.

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In a post-Trump world, being the smartest person in the room is a dubious honor.