Hello my fellow miscreants. I´m reporting to you live from Las Vegas, NV. I´ve had the pleasure in my stupid, foolish life to experience some of the most beautiful places in the world. I´ve gotten to walk around Ankor so jammed I was asked to leave. I have been to a Kiss concert in Manchester, NH so jammed that I was asked to leave. I´ve walked the streets of Istanbul, so jammed that I was ¨asked to leave¨. Well, times change and I´m not getting nearly as jammed, nearly as frequently. I´m unable to function as a full-time junkie at my advanced age. I guess I picked a bad time to stop doing Heroin, because now I´m in this shithole. If a city can indeed be ¨alive¨, then that means necessarily that a city can also be ¨dead¨. Las Vegas is a dying city. It is a model that a charicature artist has redone over and over, using the previous charicature as the guide for the next one. Vegas is a bad joke and the punchline is that life is fucking depressing here.
They say that the Luxor is haunted. I had some time to kill before I had to be at work. I don´t have any money to speak of, so I stick out like a sore thumb in these places. They say that Criss Angel lives in the very top of this ridiculous, Egyptian-themed cum 90´s cultural abortion casino. I walked the main atrium. Being that the building is a literal fucking pyramid, they have these special Wonka-vator contraptions that operate diagonally. Do I dare step into the elevator? Surely the Criss Angel penthouse isn´t so easily accessed. Come to think of it, he probably just teleports. Mindfreak. I have many goals in my life right now. I have dreams of getting my driver´s license and getting a shitty car. I also have dreams of having enough liquid income to court Criss Angel´s attention. Lots of random people die/commit suicide in this place. The atrium is practically made for it. I can only imagine that the magic field emitted by Criss Angel´s dark arts have some kind of effect upon the hotel,
I´ve been doing casework at the Rescue Mission herre in the city for a couple of months now. They have been busting up homeless encampments it seems every other day. We are seeing people coming in in waves. We now have people sleeping on every open floor space in the mission. We were not prepared for this influx of people. We ended up with both a bed bug infestation and a ringworm outbreak within the same week. These people cannot be adequately cleaned or quarantined. It´s a fucked up situation.
The law in Clark County is something like: it is illegal to sleep outside in public spaces if there are ANY beds available at ANY shelter in the county. Conservatives I speak with in the course of my work (the fire department, lots of EMT´s, cops of course) think this is a great humanitarian victory. In reality, we do not remotely have the resources to provide safe, hygienic support for these people. The outbreaks of infectious conditions is troubling. It means nobody wants to stay outside. Naturally, people do not tolerate sleeping with bed bugs and god knows what. They leave to sleep outside. I hear the next day from a friend/acquaintance that they were arrested for what amounts to ¨Vagrancy¨ to use an older term. To put this in perspective, there was one guy who was allegedly arrested and he hasn´t been seen for over a month; not at the mission and not been seen by his people on the street.
There are a lo of really fucked up rumors that have gathered steam. One of these rumors is that homeless people are being murdered/abducted with impunity by who the fuck knows. I´m not actually living out there with these folks and I only get to see them briefly at night. However, it is pretty much not questioned by any in the homeless community that people are disappearing. People have stories that are frankly a little chilling. Some say it´s the cops. Some say it´s red-blooded Americans trying to take back their streets as vigilantes. Who knows. At this point, I find it hard to deny based upon the convivtion with which these people believe. People are afraid of the police. I´m not saying they dislike the police, hate the police, resent the police; people are afraid of the police because nobody knows what the fuck is actually happening.
I´ve been staying at the shelter in the office which is quarantined from the rest of the shelter. Alternatively, I stay with my coworker Jill. We have an arrangement that I´m not going to get into, but we are surviving and working together. We do not make a ton of money. I make 25/hr as does she. She is relatively new to Nevada as well and we have joined forces and that has helped me get acclimated to this place. I´m only just now beginning to get comfortable here. We have goals now. It looks like if we combine our resources, we could be in a decent place near our work that isn´t terrible.
I understand we are in tough times right now. I see it everyday with my clientele. Their state gets worse every day. I don´t believe anyone should be wearing clothing infested with bed bugs that is worn until it disintegrates. This is America. I only hope that we are able to come together and find a way to love and understand one another. We have to find a way out of this partisanship and stop fighitng and start working together. The planet is dying and we have literal retarded/satanic-pedophiles running our country. I don´t claim to have the answer. I just know that people need support. I needed plenty of help just to get to the relatively low level of functionality with which I live my life. I´m grateful to God and everyone who has been there for me. It´s for that reason that I have the will in my heart to be there for the peope who are still out there struggling.
I´m making a vested effort to get back into the forums. Plase forgive me fam. I´ve been adjusting to this new place, a new job, new relationhips with new people and it´s all a lot. As I get a little more comfortable and used to the day to day, I have more speace available in my brain. For now, I´m going to try to find an app that can teach me magic the same way Duolingo taught me Spanish. Itt´s unlikely that someone as magical as the Mindfuck himsef would take notice of someone as un-magical as myself. This is my own Harry Potter story, just with more drugs, more nudity and more hookers.
-Keif
They say that the Luxor is haunted. I had some time to kill before I had to be at work. I don´t have any money to speak of, so I stick out like a sore thumb in these places. They say that Criss Angel lives in the very top of this ridiculous, Egyptian-themed cum 90´s cultural abortion casino. I walked the main atrium. Being that the building is a literal fucking pyramid, they have these special Wonka-vator contraptions that operate diagonally. Do I dare step into the elevator? Surely the Criss Angel penthouse isn´t so easily accessed. Come to think of it, he probably just teleports. Mindfreak. I have many goals in my life right now. I have dreams of getting my driver´s license and getting a shitty car. I also have dreams of having enough liquid income to court Criss Angel´s attention. Lots of random people die/commit suicide in this place. The atrium is practically made for it. I can only imagine that the magic field emitted by Criss Angel´s dark arts have some kind of effect upon the hotel,
I´ve been doing casework at the Rescue Mission herre in the city for a couple of months now. They have been busting up homeless encampments it seems every other day. We are seeing people coming in in waves. We now have people sleeping on every open floor space in the mission. We were not prepared for this influx of people. We ended up with both a bed bug infestation and a ringworm outbreak within the same week. These people cannot be adequately cleaned or quarantined. It´s a fucked up situation.
The law in Clark County is something like: it is illegal to sleep outside in public spaces if there are ANY beds available at ANY shelter in the county. Conservatives I speak with in the course of my work (the fire department, lots of EMT´s, cops of course) think this is a great humanitarian victory. In reality, we do not remotely have the resources to provide safe, hygienic support for these people. The outbreaks of infectious conditions is troubling. It means nobody wants to stay outside. Naturally, people do not tolerate sleeping with bed bugs and god knows what. They leave to sleep outside. I hear the next day from a friend/acquaintance that they were arrested for what amounts to ¨Vagrancy¨ to use an older term. To put this in perspective, there was one guy who was allegedly arrested and he hasn´t been seen for over a month; not at the mission and not been seen by his people on the street.
There are a lo of really fucked up rumors that have gathered steam. One of these rumors is that homeless people are being murdered/abducted with impunity by who the fuck knows. I´m not actually living out there with these folks and I only get to see them briefly at night. However, it is pretty much not questioned by any in the homeless community that people are disappearing. People have stories that are frankly a little chilling. Some say it´s the cops. Some say it´s red-blooded Americans trying to take back their streets as vigilantes. Who knows. At this point, I find it hard to deny based upon the convivtion with which these people believe. People are afraid of the police. I´m not saying they dislike the police, hate the police, resent the police; people are afraid of the police because nobody knows what the fuck is actually happening.
I´ve been staying at the shelter in the office which is quarantined from the rest of the shelter. Alternatively, I stay with my coworker Jill. We have an arrangement that I´m not going to get into, but we are surviving and working together. We do not make a ton of money. I make 25/hr as does she. She is relatively new to Nevada as well and we have joined forces and that has helped me get acclimated to this place. I´m only just now beginning to get comfortable here. We have goals now. It looks like if we combine our resources, we could be in a decent place near our work that isn´t terrible.
I understand we are in tough times right now. I see it everyday with my clientele. Their state gets worse every day. I don´t believe anyone should be wearing clothing infested with bed bugs that is worn until it disintegrates. This is America. I only hope that we are able to come together and find a way to love and understand one another. We have to find a way out of this partisanship and stop fighitng and start working together. The planet is dying and we have literal retarded/satanic-pedophiles running our country. I don´t claim to have the answer. I just know that people need support. I needed plenty of help just to get to the relatively low level of functionality with which I live my life. I´m grateful to God and everyone who has been there for me. It´s for that reason that I have the will in my heart to be there for the peope who are still out there struggling.
I´m making a vested effort to get back into the forums. Plase forgive me fam. I´ve been adjusting to this new place, a new job, new relationhips with new people and it´s all a lot. As I get a little more comfortable and used to the day to day, I have more speace available in my brain. For now, I´m going to try to find an app that can teach me magic the same way Duolingo taught me Spanish. Itt´s unlikely that someone as magical as the Mindfuck himsef would take notice of someone as un-magical as myself. This is my own Harry Potter story, just with more drugs, more nudity and more hookers.
-Keif
