Working in a Coalmine
Its time for me to get back into my online business. I didn’t do much in February in terms of listing stuff and building up my online inventories. I just kind of did the minimum-residual sales from old inventory. I needed some down time to think about the future and the past. I made some good money plowing snow but at the same time wasn’t pushing the envelope. I came to the realization that running my business is better than working for someone else, or indeed, working in a coal mine.
Well the time is nigh to push the envelope because the alternatives aren’t good right now. Two large airplane corporations just got their funding pulled and laid off over 3000 people at Centennial airport business park. Clubs and bars are closing down, long time establishments are going under. As a sign of the times my favorite mountain bike recently got stolen from outside one of the downtown gyms with CC TV. It was definitely not even close to the latest greatest with a hardtail, not worth much in parts on the black market. Some guy walks up with bolt cutters & a backpack and is gone in a flash, no way to make any identification, even with regards to race or any kind of features like hair color or facial features; CC TV is a worthless in most cases-only a deterrent to those that aren’t brazen.
My favorite mountain bike was a custom Klein hard tail pulse pro from 1995. In its day it went for 1100, now its probably worth 200$. The back derauilleur and front brakes were both disabled. It was my long term fixed gear project as well as sentimental favorite mountain bike that had been to Moab, the Colorado Trail, Summit county, Vail, and Fruita-some of the finest trails anywhere. Now the bike was my around town beater and someone stole it???? A sign of the times, oh well must let go.
As of now I have decided that running my business is certainly better than working in a coal mine. Previously I have already revealed my nerdiness by playing a devo video and I am continuing on that train, however disturbing it may be. I thought I would bust out this song that devo covered. I don’t know why the SChurch of the Subgenius has reemerged here in 2008 in my mental landscape, I thought all that stuff was buried deep in my sub-consciousness. Protected by screen memories-forget the 80’s, forget the 80’s, Reagan was a robot and Nancy was secretly gay.
According to someone I know who has ties to the legal profession, there is a possibility that Devo was brought down by a lawsuit after the bass player Gerald Casale accidently kicked an audience member in the head wearing steel toe boots . I heard that the band went from being the biggest act on the College circuit to total bankruptcy. If they hurt somebody, they probably deserved it. It was probably also good for western culture in general because they went a little too far with a lot of there costumes, especially the bumble bees. Regardless, I secretly worship this band and when I am on a solo road trip, miles from nowhere, I’ll blast this shit-Devo were the innovators….They seemed to have survived their demise being talented versatile guys with LA LA land connections. Anyway, I have perhaps revealed too much…oh know….I’m weird?!$%%$?!
Enough Devo, forget the 80’s, forget the 80’s; the Talking Heads were better even though they were essentially a copycat band of Devo; …..forget the 80’s, …….
The original version of Working in a Coalmine by Lee Dorsey
Luckily this goes back to the Seventies-Devo’s reworking of the song live…
