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the rewards of extreme procrastination
I'm in Philadelphia right now, following up - at long last - on a traffic ticket from TWO THOUSAND AND TWO (CE).
After getting nabbed, all those years ago, for running a stop-sign (in a deserted business district, past midnight, on weeknight), I decided that I would just forget about it, since I wasn't a Philadelphia resident and had no plans to be.
Flash forward four years. I haven't gotten a traffic ticket since then (because I drive like your grandma, thank you very much). However, I do occasionally forget to get my car inspected in a timely fashion. One quota-making seatbelt-checkpoint later, just down the road from my home in the Hudson River Valley, and I'm being taken to the hoosegow in handcuffs. Turns out my license has been suspended since 2003! That was three weeks ago.
Two trips to Philly later, the old 2002 ticket is dismissed on account of being (at this point) too damn silly. Hopefully, the Aggravated Unlicensed Operation charge in NY will also soon be gone. Hopefully...
On the upside, I've gottent to connect with friends I haven't seen in a while, get off the farm for a bit, and I got some sweet writing done while I was waiting the interminable wait for the judge to appear. I'll post that bit - about some problems with causality, and the epistemology of social evolution - when I get it polished up a bit.
Now I'm enjoying the cozy gentrification ambience of a bohemian cafe in West Philly - wireless internet, strong coffee, vegan baked goods, hip obscure music, you name it. It's nice, I've been here for hours.
Can anyone imagine a bohemia that doesn't exist at the expense of others - that isn't nestled in the armpit of some Empire? Because I sure do like it here, and I sure am committed to dismantling the system that has produced it, and reversing the trajectories that led to it.
Please, if you can think of examples - tell me.
After getting nabbed, all those years ago, for running a stop-sign (in a deserted business district, past midnight, on weeknight), I decided that I would just forget about it, since I wasn't a Philadelphia resident and had no plans to be.
Flash forward four years. I haven't gotten a traffic ticket since then (because I drive like your grandma, thank you very much). However, I do occasionally forget to get my car inspected in a timely fashion. One quota-making seatbelt-checkpoint later, just down the road from my home in the Hudson River Valley, and I'm being taken to the hoosegow in handcuffs. Turns out my license has been suspended since 2003! That was three weeks ago.
Two trips to Philly later, the old 2002 ticket is dismissed on account of being (at this point) too damn silly. Hopefully, the Aggravated Unlicensed Operation charge in NY will also soon be gone. Hopefully...
On the upside, I've gottent to connect with friends I haven't seen in a while, get off the farm for a bit, and I got some sweet writing done while I was waiting the interminable wait for the judge to appear. I'll post that bit - about some problems with causality, and the epistemology of social evolution - when I get it polished up a bit.
Now I'm enjoying the cozy gentrification ambience of a bohemian cafe in West Philly - wireless internet, strong coffee, vegan baked goods, hip obscure music, you name it. It's nice, I've been here for hours.
Can anyone imagine a bohemia that doesn't exist at the expense of others - that isn't nestled in the armpit of some Empire? Because I sure do like it here, and I sure am committed to dismantling the system that has produced it, and reversing the trajectories that led to it.
Please, if you can think of examples - tell me.
mmm-hmm
Thankswelcome!