shit, bartering is great. i’ve a lack of it. y’know, trading things. for instance:
1. a guy wants the old pickup my ma has. he doesn’t have the money, so he’s helping her fix the sink and various other odds and ends in exchange.
2. i’m doing an english to spanish translation for my ma’s work. as payment, her cooworker gave me a huge ass jar of honey.
call me a sentimental sucker for the whole community vibe, but i think our culture lacks it. i don’t mean in a dumb ass pta sense, either. i mean people just being good to eachother in trivial but genuine ways. we’re so reserved, not really doing shit like this because we’re too afraid to even look at each other. myself being no exception. yuk, man.
also: pete and pete rocks. thank you, nic, for lending those discs to me. i’ve watched most of them. i was startled as hell to see iggy pop on the screen. turns out i had watched quite a bit of that show as a kid (being big on nickelodeon at the time). it’s great.
