Today's interesting reading.

[theweaselking]

Notes on how authors misunderstand street-and-fringe-living people, and how it actually is, from someone who did it.

Comments

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Motherfuckin' Bra-vo.

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

Damn thats interesting

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

So very true.

Except the bartender part. If you're anywhere halfway decent, bartenders make good coin, they just don't want you to know that.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Right off the bat, he's spot-on about guns vs. knives. I'm not expert in either but know quite a few people who are and their experiences jibe entirely with what he's saying here.

[aimisdirty.livejournal.com]

A number of the assertions regarding edged weapons versus firearms in terms of their lethality and ease of use are off base.

Fun read, though.

[jerril]

Lies about Knife Fighting

Highly recommended by everyone I know who knows anything about people using knives on other people in street fights.

[aimisdirty.livejournal.com]

That was a decent read.

The reality is that any idiot with a knife is very dangerous. You don't need any special training or experience to be able to use an edged weapon to inflict lethal or grievous injury upon another human being.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I've spent the last two hours reading from that site. The author reminds me a lot of Sam Vimes, in some ways.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

But the times since then that I've had to count my pennies to buy toilet tissue... those are the times I can feel my past breathing down my neck, and it scares the living shit out of me.

Holy crap that resonates.

Great post. I'm saving that.