{"id":32375,"date":"2024-10-23T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=32375"},"modified":"2024-11-23T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:39:03","slug":"i-like-drunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/23\/i-like-drunks\/","title":{"rendered":"I LIKE DRUNKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nI was<\/strong> <\/span>an adjunct professor at the local community college, teaching creative writing, creative non-fiction, and “I’m Creative!” (a course I\u00a0made up). Whatever worked. I might do teaching again, maybe in retirement. The money was horrible but I enjoyed the kids.<\/p>\n

I was in the family landlord biz, too.<\/p>\n

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Chris Kraus<\/p><\/div>\n

Years ago I was interviewed in a mag, Rust Belt \/ Waist 40<\/em>, about my landlord shtick. There are approximately two landlord-writers in America. There\u2019s an avant-garde landlord\u00a0in Los Angeles who wrote a book called I Like Dick<\/em>. She’s Chris Kraus. She liked a guy named Dick. Her books have been reviewed in the New York Times <\/em>and all over.<\/em> She bought four buildings in Albuquerque in 2005. She doesn’t mention that often, but she doesn’t hide the fact, either. She said in an interview, \u201cI spend a couple of hours each day dealing with leaking roofs and plumbers and laminate floors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Me too.<\/strong> <\/span>And don\u2019t forget late-payers, and tenants with eight cats, and tenants who break toilet tanks because they\u2019re super-fat and drunk. I Like Drunks<\/em>. I should write that.<\/p>\n

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\nThis post is 50% fiction, but Chris Kraus is real.
\n<\/small><\/p>\n

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\nYiddishe Cup plays 7:15 pm tomorrow (Thurs. Oct. 24)\u00a0 at Park Synagogue, Pepper Pipes, Ohio. Simchat Torah. Free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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