I just went to get my regular salon for my usual grooming and the staff was all working on their N95 masks, getting them ready. I asked what that was all about and she said the city inspector came in and said that everyone needed to wear N95 who was working there. It didn't matter what the customers wore, but the staff had to wear N95 or they would fine them $500. What kind of science is behind this arbitrary law, I have yet to understand.
This business has been jerked around by the state and city. They were closed down. Then they were doing nails outside. They bought plexiglass. I was there the day before they shut everyone down again right before the holidays and this Vietnamese woman looked at me and said, "How am I supposed to survive another lockdown?"
The owner told me that customers are coming in and taking pictures when other customers are there without masks and threatening to tell the city. She said, "We just get busy--we don't see when people take their masks off right away."
What compels ANYONE to behave like this, after all these businesses have been through, when the customer taking pictures most likely have a vaccine and a mask on is frankly disturbing. This mentality of policing businesses and fellow citizens is toxic and dangerous and it appears it's infected a large percentage of the body politic.
And I fucking hate it.
It was fun catching up with my old friend in comedy and sister in pregnancy, Jessica. Enjoy!
It was such a pleasure talking to Sally Satel about the opioid crisis, addiction, recovery, how it's a miracle anyone ever gets sober, the ramifications of political correctness in medicine and so much more. #WalkInsWelcome
Spoke to The Lost Debate team (Cory Bradford, Ravi Gupta & Rikki Schlott) about their mission behind the podcast and the intention to create a space and media company that brings different people together to have conversations. #WalkInsWelcome
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EO31L
Maybe we should just focus on TV show reviews.
Grandpa's letter home after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Maggie is back! Also: The "No Complaining" challenge.
Hey Pham,
Some of you have been asking if we have a list of our promo codes for all the Dumpster Fire & Walk-Ins Welcome sponsors. We made a list and you can find it here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ErjcLnuDxjb4FibbeY3yh97UOUyfeqr5xz6zKV57mw/edit?usp=sharing
We'll do our best to keep it updated.
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We might not have any control over the news cycle—but we can control our habits and attitude. It all starts with us. And hopefully a little piece of that will start here.
