Misc., for example. On 'disappearing' in life.

[Bled Welder]

The liquor store I go to when I'm in this neighborhood has always been
there, down six blocks, around behind the edge of the stretch mall.  A
number of years ago what you might call a corporate booze giant moved into
a vacated A&P grocery store, remodeled, made it sexy.  Called MDL.  Funny
shittin acronym when you're in the moon.  Mood.  I've been 86ed from there,
for utilizing their splendid facilities to down a bottle of hyper-sugarized
tequila before my walk home.  I was fully intending to pay, I just wanted
to drink it first.  Manager didn't have me pay, he just made me never come
back.  That place is about a hundred yards closer to my Central City pad
that the old one, so it was useful in the hardest times.  So fuck it I
cross the big street and go the hundred extra yards to the old haunt.  Guy
who runs it, I've walked in there with my pants around my ankles, I've
pounded vodka in his much-less-nice bathroom, he's helped me choose mescal,
he doesn't care.  Sometimes he's had his kid hanging out with him at work,
like I used to my parents growing up.  Simple old school living.

Anyway today I was sober so I drove up and went in and wanted some Mickey's
and said so, and the brother said "Ah, it's our last day, we're not
restocking."
"What? Last day?"
"The guy across the street bought the place."
"That fucking cocksucker, what the fuck?"
"Right?"
"Shit man, you gonna be alright?"
"I sensed something was happening, I've put the word out.  I'll be fine."

Maybe, right?  Man, how to you fight back from being laid off from a liquor
store?

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:58 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please don't kill a toad.  The job resulting will be worse than no job.
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Ian Livingston wrote:
>
>> Gee, wow, like, Thanks all! Keeping our fingers crossed here for the best
>> outcome, but willing to settle if it gets me back in the game. I'll catch a
>> toad before the next moon.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:50 AM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please ... Burying toads under a full moon is the trick.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>>> To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 12:21 am
>>> Subject: Re: Misc., for example. On 'disappearing' in life.
>>>
>>>  i've had that happen so many times where the results don't come from the effort
>>> that now I just talk to the universe and ask for help/work, be ready to do what
>>> I can and it seems to come. The world of resumes just doesn't seem to work for
>>> me , but there  is another world that seems to need me to do what I do. Good
>>> luck to you.
>>> On Feb 5, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>>>
>>> > I've been unemployed since October 2011. I've been applying to jobs all over
>>> the country with no real responses, apparently. Two nights ago I went to bed
>>> seriously down, feeling kind of useless, after gazing into the sky at my old
>>> friend, Orion and admitting that I really, really need some help here.
>>> Yesterday, two actual jobs fell out of the sky--one real job doing what I'm best
>>> at in an area where we want to live, the other a part-time job in my next-best
>>> area of expertise that will be enough to tide me over until the real job comes
>>> through in full-time status. Two side-jobs also fell in my lap after months of
>>> advertising. It will please me very much to be among the thus disappeared.
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> > I read a recent article on a guy who lost his middle management job, is
>>> struggling, getting
>>> > few responses, getting very down so he founded a support group with other
>>> unemployed folk.
>>> >
>>> > He said his goal was to have the members of the group "disappear"...into jobs.
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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