http://www.punkplanet.com/taxonomy/term/736/0 en http://www.punkplanet.com/nora_rocket/blog/can_you_build_a_life_from_25 <p>I want you to read <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0211/p13s02-wmgn.html">this article from the Christian Science Monitor</a>, a publication with which I have no beef, before we go on. It's the prerequisite before today's session of "Nora's Bile: Let Me Show You It."</p> <p>It's short, and I can wait.</p> <p>Done? How interesting, right? In the vein of Nickeled and Dimed--with its renunciation of one's so-called station to explore how another group lives (or struggles to live)--a young man named Adam Shepard decides to take twenty-five bucks, a rucksack of physical things, and nothing else; leave his home with his parents; and step to "the wrong side of the tracks" in Charleston and "[start] his life from scratch" (sort of) as a homeless man to "test the vivacity of the American Dream."</p> <p>Right.</p> <p><a href="http://www.punkplanet.com/nora_rocket/blog/can_you_build_a_life_from_25">read more</a></p> http://www.punkplanet.com/nora_rocket/blog/can_you_build_a_life_from_25#comment feminism haaaate jackassery unalloyed self-indulgence white privilege willful ignorance Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:09:38 -0500 Nora Rocket 3855 at http://www.punkplanet.com