Category Archives: Living Deliberately

For the boring, blunt, and braying blog posts strictly related to my weird little experiment of living deliberately, and the different working parts of that whole business.

Buying drugs from people’s underwear: what not to do

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Big Adam

As it is written: you can take the boy out of upstate, but you can’t take the upstate out of the boy.  Or as we say it  in up-country: You can taxidermy the roadkill, but that don’t make the skunk … Continue reading →

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Aristocratic aspirations: BigAdam of Bushwick

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Big Adam

In case you couldn’t tell from my baronial mustaches (which I have been cultivating since a hair first sprouted from my virgin chin like the first green sprig of spring), I have great ambitions in Bushwick, the land of beards … Continue reading →

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Holiday Shopping or, the Terminator

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Big Adam

Thousands of years ago, an elf named Arnold Schwarzenegger came back from the future in order to preach peace, love, and the importance of bargain shopping to the masses. For his effort, he was rewarded with a rebellion by certain … Continue reading →

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Crappy photos (of East NY) dedicated to crappy SUNY budget cuts

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Big Adam

In the holiday spirit unique to my family, which is very frequently a spirit making a point of being crumudgeonly on holidays other people have no trouble enjoying–going to bed before midnight on New Year’s, insisting on being a vegetarian … Continue reading →

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Batman and I have the same underwear

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Big Adam

I am not Batman, and if I were, I probably wouldn’t tell you. Rather, I would allow you to note the suspicious similarities between my life and his. Because you are reading this and not directly observing me , I … Continue reading →

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Gomez Addams Jr., Bike Shop Owner

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Big Adam

Think Globally, Vote Uninformedly, thats my motto. Or maybe its Buy Locally, Act Inappropriately. You see, I could purchase everything local, everything from my tortillas to my beer to the Village Bicycle-which is owned and ridden by no one but … Continue reading →

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Freezing to death, hipster style

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Big Adam

I am a castrato squirrel missing his nuts before winter.  I am a hipster, smoking, who has forgotten his vintage scarfs, an old person, slipping, who got Florida and Finland mixed up with the travel agent. I am a man … Continue reading →

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Photos from the Bushwick perimeter ride

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Big Adam

The annoying thing about being annoyed with gentrification is that I must end up annoyed by myself (thank god there is only one of me). I am frustrated with people encroaching and taking over a neighborhood that was previously undesirable, … Continue reading →

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The principles of yelling at old women.

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Big Adam

I do not consider myself a principled individual. This is not because I do not claim to have them, but rather because they have never been tested in any meaningful way. To claim the hardiness of my principles would be … Continue reading →

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Embarassing myself with the “shout or smush” response

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Big Adam

A brief lesson: If you are going to try a “living deliberately” experiment that involves a category for things to improve at, and if that things to improve at includes “learning how to flip things in a saute pan”, do … Continue reading →

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