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    Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home

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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/25/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    I used to get upset at these folks and the kids claiming to sell candy for their basketball teams, until I realized something: There really has never been a point in history anyone begging has been honest about it. I mean outside of the Salvation Army, can anyone think of a street group that is regularly outside that does spend the money the way they claim to spend it?

    I think the only time I have ever felt 100% secure in knowing what I gave to someone was something they used/ate was when my mom made cheese sandwiches she'd give me to give to Bill, the neighborhood acid casualty who always told me "You're mom is a very nice person!"

    I miss Bill.
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    Image of JohntheCraptist JohntheCraptist
    11/25/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    Does this mean we'll FINALLY be rid of these "NObody deserves to go HUNgry tonight!"-moaning jackbags? Particularly the morbidly obese 14-pack-a-day smoker outside the Starbucks in Union Square? Or the squirrelly weirdo in front of the other Starbucks on the other side of Union Square who gives tourists fake information about Union Square landmarks? His explanation of that digital clock thing above the old Virgin Megastore is so convoluted and also patently false that I can't even remember the details to relay them here.

    Okay actually? I'll kind of miss that one.
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    Image of joutfit joutfit
    11/25/09

    @JohntheCraptist: AAAAHHH what the fuck is with that guy's voice?? it scares the shit out of me every time i walk by. i've always assumed that it's one of those crazy artificial voiceboxes made for people with throat cancer, but i've never wanted to look directly at him to confirm this.
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    Image of JohntheCraptist JohntheCraptist
    11/26/09

    @joutfit: OH MY GOD THAT VOICE. It's like Satan ate Zuul and washed him down with broken glass or something. I CAN'T.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    I only support freelance homeless, because as much of a pinko as I am, I'm more of an anarchist.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    I know a girl who put herself through college shaking jugs so people would give her money. It's nothing new.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    Another weird thing about moving in with Mom and Dad is that whenever they call you, the call

    is coming

    from inside

    the house.
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    I used to feel bad for ignoring that jug guy outside the Starbucks on Spring Street...

    but then I remembered I'm an organ donor, which is basically a lifelong "good deed" credit anyway, right?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    Bowling for dolors.
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    Image of eleusiswalks eleusiswalks
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    I hate Hemingway and I hate this.
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    Image of beppolina1 beppolina1
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    Barry uses a favorite NYT code word: tidy. (Rachel Shaw lives in a "tidy tent" with porcelain dolls.) Times shorthand for describing neighborhoods:
    TIDY: Well-behaved working folk, mostly of color
    VIBRANT: Hipsters! Galleries! Gentrification! But...kind of gay. (See a 3/24/05 article about Portland OR: "Vibrant Cities Find One Thing Missing: Children)
    GRITTY: Poor folk, mostly of color. (7/22/09: "Gritty Bushwick is Getting Some Wine Shops.")
    HUSHED: White folks with big front lawns.

    So Rachel, by this shorthand, is one of those decent poor folk. After all, she's got dolls.
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    Image of thegreatfratsby thegreatfratsby
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    You know, I had a choice between reading this article or Paul Krugman's on my phone this morning during my commute. I only get one option, because once the T goes underground, no signal (god, sometimes I miss DC). And it was tough, I mean, Dan Barry vs. Krugman droning on about health care reform in his 14th mix 'n match editorial, amirite? But I picked Krugman, and that made all the difference.

    Because seriously, if I had read this shit, I might have puked. And Boston's so bankrupt, I'd probably be going home on the same dirty train.

    Talk of rain tonight my ass. There's something called a weather forecast, dammit. Get a job and get some wireless!

    (that's sort of a joke.)
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    Weird.

    Barry is a multiple award-winning bad-ass, and in 1994 even bagged a Pultizer at his former paper, the Providence Journal-Bulletin "for a series of articles about the state’s court system; the series led to various reforms and the criminal indictment of the state’s Supreme Court chief justice."

    When did he become such a sloppy softie with a fetish for dorky similes?
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    So that's why no children are allowed.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    If only that tea kettle sang Ella, or Louis Jordan, or even Chris Brown, and got those homeless toes tapping a rhythm of hope. Ah well. You can't have everything.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    The gay couple, of course, live "near some rocks where men go to urinate." I guess we know why, right Dan? At night, they "sit at a riverside table . . . the moving waters suggesting mystery."
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    Image of Flashman Flashman
    07/31/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: Hey come on. Sometimes moving water just does suggest mystery.
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    Image of Veillantif Veillantif
    07/31/09

    In reply to New York Times Rhapsodizes the Child Rapist Living Down by the River
    All it needs is a line about Freitas being a manly man, and you would think it was by Charlie LeDuff. It's that bad.
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