Nickel and Dimed

Didja read this book?

I started reading it and then got disgusted by the writer's superior yet "we're all in it together" attitude towards her fellow minimum wage workers.

Sorry, but if you're going to try and pretend you "feel the people" when you can stop "being one of the underclass" whenever you damn well feel like it then your project is going to reek of opportunism.

Well, now the Naked Eye Theatre Company in association with Steppenwolf Theatre Company is producing a play based on the book and tickets are running between 20 and 30 bucks.

Don't think the irony that the theater version of the book is priced so that none of the book's subjects would ever be able to afford to attend. yet another example of the white upper middle class -- or me -- trying to assuage their guilt through the arts and gestures of "understanding the little man."

Fuck that.

DJ Photogal rules!

Yes, yes she does. DJ Photogal filled in for Rudy last night and spun a kick-ass set of rock and/or roll. She has also gained a new respect and understanding for why I still like to DJ. And she thinks it’s positively freakish that I can find any song I’m looking for without referring to any track listing.

Look ma, I'm a freak!