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

[Ian Livingston]

Same way you fight back from being laid off from a Buddhist retreat for
religious reasons--such as having none.

And, don't worry, David, I'm not really superstitious. I even walk on the
cracks, and my mother never had a broken back. Gave up live sacrifices back
in the early Medieval period, but I still appreciate irony. I'm with
Spinoza on the superstition thing.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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