fellow happy bicyclists!
"11. Don’t get confused, though: Unless you are actually poor, you are not actually poor. I know I said ‘poor’; in item #10, but I was being lazy. I’m sorry. What I really meant was ‘broke.’ Don’t get some chip on your shoulder about how disenfranchised you are because all you have is a liberal arts degree and 100 Top Ramens. It will make you sound silly and careless. Some people have been systemically disadvantaged their entire lives and now they live in their cars and don’t even have Bottom Ramen. Here’s an easy way to tell the difference: If you got arrested, do you have someone that could bail you out of jail? If the answer is yes, then you are broke and not poor. ‘Poor’ is not a game. You are ‘broke.’"
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via Congrats, New Grads! By the Way, You Don’t Know Anything (via autostraddle)
(thank you, Perspective.)
(via autostraddle)
bike to work week!
also see: The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
because you had to give names to everything you found, and make logos for bad ideas, and change your car every two years and wake up early for conference calls, and it turned out to be no progress at all /just a shadow festival/ because of that you will have to learn to look at the sky again, you will have to learn to eat food that grows where you live again, you will have to learn to touch what you make
poetry on billboards by robert montgomery
“The beautifulness of Saturday over and over.” Lynda Barry on her unplugged life, in a (1997?) handwritten letter
Lynda Barry (from austinkleon)
