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Dear Dave,
My wife and I are on Baby Step 2 of your plan, and we're paying off our debt. I've been trying to sell my motorcycle and listed it for $5,000 on Craigslist. The other day, a guy offered me $2,000 cash and a boat for the bike. I've always really wanted a boat, but I'm not sure this is the time. And the money would only make a small dent in our debt. Would this kind of deal be legal in the Dave Ramsey universe?
Dear Matt,
It's an interesting deal, but at this stage of the game I think you have to ask yourself what your goal is. If it's to get a boat, then you've accomplished that goal. However, if your goal is to get out of debt, this deal doesn't get you where you want to be. Plus, it could add even more expense and hassle to your life. Upkeep and maintenance on some boats can really add up.
But this is Matt's universe, not Dave's. In my mind, getting out of debt comes first. There's plenty of time later for you to save up and buy a nice boat after you get control of your finances. In this scenario, you're simply trading one recreational vehicle for another.
If you're on Baby Step 2, it means you've already got $1,000 in the bank for emergencies and have moved on to paying off all your debt, except for your home. This tells me you guys are motivated, but the idea of a boat has caused your resolve to waver a little.
So, if you're looking for someone to tell you to forget the boat and stay on track with getting control of your lives and money, then I'm your guy. Don't do the deal!
Dear Dave,
I'm trying to convince my husband to leave his debit card at home when he goes to work. He says he wants it for emergencies, but he's always using it for other things. I'd rather him just carry a very small amount of cash so he's not so tempted. What do you think?
Dear Haley,
I understand your concern, but I think you're wrong on this one. I carry my debit card with me everywhere I go, and I want my wife to do the same. What your husband needs to stop doing is having "emergencies." The translation? Stop the impulse spending!
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sizing beam for header
We are opening up a wall to get more "open concept" between two rooms. The new opening we want is 9 feet 3 inches. This is on the first floor of a 2 story house, I assume it is a load bearing wall because there is another wall directly above.
I hear anecdotally that a 2 x 8, doubled up, is sufficient for an 8ft span and a 2 x 10, doubled up, is sufficient for up to 10 feet.
Can anyone point me to a table or a calculator or an equation where I can determine what size header I would need using traditional methods, and what I can use if I go with an LVL or some engineered solution? The things I find online are very confusing about live load and dead load and PSF vs PLF and deflection criteria and bearing resistance, etc. I just want a simple beam, supported by 4 x 4s underneath either end. Is a double 2 x 10 enough to hold up my house and meet code? Is a single (or double) LVL that is 7 1/4 tall enough?
I know ultimately it will come down to the building inspector's OK. I just want to be able to be somewhat informed before I talk with him.
Thanks Much!
One detail I forgot to mention: the 4 x 4s holding up this beam go from the first floor's floor to the first floor ceiling. Underneath this (in the basement) there is a lally column directly under one 4 x 4 while the other 4 x 4 is attached to the wall so it has foundation wall supporting it. In other words, no worries from basement floor level up to this beam in question.
Excellent article I've referred to while figuring on the same problems:
Based on this, ASSUMING your wall is a true load bearing wall supporting a second floor and roof, you will want a double 11 7/8 LVL.
To design a beam you must first determine the load on it. The anecdotes are most likely for exterior walls and assume a number of stories and width of span for the second floor so they would not apply to an interior beam.
The fact that there is a wall above it doesn't tell us anything. You need to figure out how the house is framed and then determine the load that the beam will carry to the posts and what load the posts put on the structure below, all the way to the foundations.
The beam span is not very long so double 2x12's will probably be large enough or they might be larger than necessary and decrease the height of the new opening unnecessarily.
If the beam supports 12 ft long 2nd floor joists on each side of it, three 2x12's or two 11 7/8" LVL's would be required. If the second floor wall carried a load from the attic or roof above, the beam would need to be larger.
Don't guess about structural elements, get someone to assist you who can look at the existing structure before you make a serious mistake.
I am supporting my 1 1/2 story 1906 house with a scaffold of LVLs and columns from the ground up to the 2x4 rafters. House footprint is 24x28'. The front room is 12 x24, joists running in the 24' direction (east west), the gable end wall is the 24' length (north). All joists and rafters run east west and all LVLs perpendicular (north south). The upstairs joists are 14' and 10' long above this room (a little longer because they lap). I've added 12' long double 9 1/2" LVLs 5 feet in from each side wall directly under the kneewalls/joists that carry some of the roof load above. Where the second floor joists lap I removed an old twisted timber (added in 1950s to replace a wall) and replaced it with a double 9 1/2" LVL. All LVLs supported in beam pockets and columns down thru walls. I jacked the floor above when putting in the LVLs and removed most of the sag from 100 years of no support. LVLs die on appropriately sized headers where needed above windows. A neighbor, who is a residential engineer, ran the numbers. I do have two sets of double 9 1/2" LVLs upstairs above the collar ties carrying some of the roof load down through the end walls and stairwell walls that bisect the house in the 28 foot (east/west) direction so all beams are sized throughout the house with relation to each other, house load, snow load etc. Since the original ceilings are 9' tall I will drop them to the bottom of the LVL--8'. There is a 2x4 plate on top of the LVLs to take up the distance of the plate at the top of the wall. I stripped the walls, so the LVLs end within the walls with new studs/beam pockets carrying the loads down to the foundation. All LVLs are glued and timberloc screwed or nailed together. You'll only pay a little more to oversize the beams though it is wise to get a professional assessment. The engineers with the computer programs can run the numbers very quickly.
We need the same info for a 14' span. When I got the permit I didn't know what size, so the gentleman there quickly figured I'd need at least 3 12' beams together. He told me we would be able to change to an LVL. We will need to have it sized by the LVL supplier and keep the paperwork to show the inspector.
Some parts of the country one can get the lumber yard that is supplying the beam to have the LVL company size the correct beam for the load. Some states, not so much. All west coast, FL, NJ...high probability that you will need an engineer.
Sizing a beam, even for well versed professionals, is not a wise thing to do. You are taking a huge liability risk, especially of that size opening. Anything 6' and under, I wouldn't be so worried, The terror factor gets exponential after that. 8'..so so. 10'...yikes. 12'+...you better get the engineer in there to take that liability off your hands.
When a lumber yard sizes an LVL beam the design is actually done by the LVL manufacturer and the document they supply to you will be stamped by an engineer registered in your state so I can think of no reason a building department would reject it. However, the manufacturer must rely on you to provide an accurate description of the loading condition.


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Jeffersonville Main Street will host a garden tour and plant sale June 23. Tickets for the tour are $10. Around 2 PM, we will be closing up the plant sale. Come then for really good bargains or bring your plants to swap. Go to http://www.jeffmainstreet.org/garden_tour07.html for more info. If you know of any other events in the area, please let me know. Thanks so much!


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These students [space.com] got theirs into space for $120,000. Sure, that doesn't include "donated material, equipment and expertise", or the estimated $40,000 launch cost [126.96.36.199], but let's be optimistic and call it $250,000 all told. Well, get 50 people in and it's only $5000 each -- less than a good used car. Make it 500 people and you've got the cost down to less than a trip for two to Vegas. And for this I get to help send a satellite running Linux into space -- as close as I'm likely to come to making the trip myself.
I know that ham radio folks are already doing this sort of thing, but they've got their own goals. I admit, mine are a bit fuzzy beyond "put this L33+ satellite into space", but that's kind of appealing too. What could we cram on a picosatellite? What imaging can you do for cheap -- what resolution, what wavelengths? And of course, the question everyone wants answered: Can you host a webserver in space, and could it survive a Slashdotting?
I think something like this would be cool beyond measure. Who's in?
People have done a lot of thinking about this, and one of the slicker solutions I've seen (and played with) is the Pacsat Broadcast Protocol [amsat.org] suite.
The general idea was that a single downlink could serve all ground stations in the footprint, and that the data were of general interest. So it broadcast data for anybody who wanted it. Exactly what it chose to broadcast was based on requests from ground stations. The downlink protocol also allowed ground stations to piece files together from multiple passes,
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As all of you should know—both because you all closely monitor every tweet Jim Thomas has ever sent in hopes of catching him sending a couple of topless pics to Kate Middleton in the most shockingly backwards mobile extramarital affair the world has ever known and because you all sleep outside the house of whoever the current Rams starting Quarterback each and every night because pro football is the only thing in your life that has any meaning and things like "restraining orders" and "privacy" mean nothing to you because you do not have a broad enough vocabulary to know what most words mean—the Sam Bradford era in our fair city has now come to a close. Sam the Ram is gone. Sam the Ram is dead. Sam the Ram is buried. Once and for all our NFL franchise has officially moved on from Sam the Ram. Once and for all science's ability to produce the indestructible robot knees featured in every single edition of the RoboCop films for actual human use is someone else's problem.
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As all of you should know—both because you all closely monitor every tweet Jim Thomas has ever sent in hopes of catching him sending a couple of topless pics to Kate Middleton in the most shockingly backwards mobile extramarital affair the world has ever known and because you all sleep outside the house of whoever the current Rams starting Quarterback each and every night because pro football is the only thing in your life that has any meaning and things like "restraining orders" and "privacy" mean nothing to you because you do not have a broad enough vocabulary to know what most words mean—the Sam Bradford era in our fair city has now come to a close. Sam the Ram is gone. Sam the Ram is dead. Sam the Ram is buried. Once and for all our NFL franchise has officially moved on from Sam the Ram. Once and for all science's ability to produce the indestructible robot knees featured in every single edition of the RoboCop films for actual human use is someone else's problem.
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As all of you should absolutely, positively, without-a-doubt know—mainly because I often live tweet about this topic meaning that it is therefore something that all 361 of my Twitter followers, and by extension every person on Earth, cares about more than human trafficking, poverty, Europe and all the other things I do not tweet about and therefore mean nothing to all 361 of my Twitter followers, and by extension every person on Earth—The Bachelor is more than just a regular, plain, good old-fashioned television show. The Bachelor is more than The Bing Bang Theory. The Bachelor is more than The Golden Girls. The Bachelor is more than the Goddamn evening news. The Bachelor is real. The Bachelor is authentic. The Bachelor means something to the world. The Bachelor depicts the truest and most sincere form of love that modern society has to offer.
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Dear Stan: You are the worst
Editors Note: This is an Open Letter Written by a Diehard ST. LOUIS Rams fan in response to Club Owner Stan Kroenke's apparent attempt to build a new football stadium and relocate the franchise to Los Angeles.
Dear Stan,
Let me eschew the cursory politeness and niceties one often shares in the beginning of this kind of "open letter" format and start this piece of writing with the most honest and sincere sentiment I could possibly share with my audience regarding my opinion of the person I am writing this letter to: Stan Kroenke, I hate your guts. I hate your money over everything attitude. I hate your ability to turn your back on anyone and everyone who has ever helped you to get to where you are today in search of an extra couple million dollars of net worth. I hate the fact that you lie in the weeds, in the background, with your mouth shut and your face away from the camera, acting as if your unwillingness to speak to the public, speak to your fan base, makes you any less of a deceitful blood sucker than, say, your pal Jerry Jones because no one can contradict you or question your ulterior motives or say that you lied to them because you can't lie when you never say anything out loud, when you never say anything on the record, when you never said anything at all.
I hate how you treat us, how you take advantage of us, how our money is all well and good and nice until it isn't, until you can make more money off of someone else, until the stadium we built for you literally for free, literally without you needing to put up a dime of your own money, literally without you risking a nickel of your precious 5 and a half billion dollar fortune, isn't shiny and new enough anymore. Then you are gone. Then you are out the door. Then you are onto greener pastures. Then you flip us all the bird and hop on your private jet. C'est la vie. It's all good baby.
I hate you, Stan; hate how you so clearly and obviously don't give a fuck about anybody but yourself. I hate how you treat other people: like they are less than you; like they are not worth the time or attention or focus it takes for you to do things such as open your mouth and produce audible noises; like they are nothing but obstacles standing in your way as you strive to move up a spot or two on the Forbes list of richest people in the world. I know that many billionaires are, by their very essence, selfish assholes who only look out for #1 as they fill their bank accounts and stash money all over the globe in an attempt to do things such as not pay taxes or open up sweatshops in 3rd world countries that pay 9-year-olds $0.04/hour to stich mittens.
That's how they get to where they are. That's how they become who they become. No one can reach the top of a fiscal mountain without stepping on a few skulls along the way. I know that. I acknowledge it. I accept it for what it is. Let's not confuse that acceptance however with the idea of appreciation, with the idea that all of us underlings like having our heads squashed by a dude with a shitty haircut and a distinctly unstylish suit as he makes his way up higher and higher on a pile of cash. That acceptance however should not mean that I am forced to lie down and concede my fate; that I am forced to prepare my skull for its inevitable squashing without saying a word about how the squashing is inequitable and unfair.
I hate that lying down and conceding my fate is exactly what you, Stan, expect anyone and everyone in your path to do. It's what you expected the NFL to do when you attempted to buy the Rams in clear violation of the league's cross ownership guidelines. It's what you expected the city, county and state government to do when you countered the CVC's renovation suggestions for the Dome with a ridiculous $700 million plan that would have effectively turned the Edward Jones Dome into some sort of spaceship that would require every road in downtown St. Louis to be rerouted in order to accommodate an insanely burgeoning and impractical facility. It's what you expect from the league, from the city/state/county, and from the fans now Stan, now that you've all but announced your plans to move the Rams out to the left coast and turn them into a lame duck here in St. Louis just days before Dave Peacock and Bob Blitz and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon were set to release their plans for a potential state of the art stadium that would theoretically keep the Rams here in St. Louis. A move which makes it clear that you never had any interest in waiting to see what St. Louis was willing to offer you in the first pace Stan. A move, which makes it clear that from the moment you bought the team Stan, you were never, ever, going to be willing to stay.
Which makes no sense to me Stan. You grew up in Missouri. You went to school here. You maintain your personal residence in Columbia. You were born here, in this state. You will probably die here too. You will almost assuredly be buried here. You built your fortune here. You raised your kids here. You married your college sweetheart here. You are named Enos Stanley Kroenke after two of the greatest Cardinals to have ever lived: Stan Musial, perhaps the most influential St. Louisan of all, and Enos Slaughter, one of the most forgotten. You had no choice when your roots were put down for you here, in Missouri, in the Show-Me-State Stan, but you had a choice to dig them deeper; you had a choice to reinforce them; you had a choice to stay. You had a choice to show us all that no matter how rich you got or how big-time you became, this region, this state, this place where we are from, this was a good place to be. You had a choice to show us all that no matter how rich you got or how big-time you became, there really is no place like home.
You had a choice to bring professional football to St. Louis Stan, a choice you made some 2 decades ago, first as the proposed owner for the potential St. Louis expansion team that illogically went to Jacksonville, then by buying 40% of the Rams on the provision that they would relocate in order to play their football in your home state, then by stepping up and purchasing the Rams when they hit the open market and vowing to do everything in your power to keep them in St. Louis, to keep them here, to keep them in their new found home. No one has done as much for football fans in this town. No one has believed in our city as a viable NFL market more. No one is more forgotten, and in some ways more responsible, for the St. Louis Rams bringing us a Lombardi Trophy; for the St. Louis Rams making the Gateway to the West the Gateway to the Best…football team in the world. To be denying this would be to deny you, Stan, your just due. You may not want the credit Stan, but you deserve it. You are the biggest reason why professional football returned to St. Louis in the first place. All roads back to the NFL led through you. You were the one that directed them here.
And now, it appears, you are the reason why professional football may be leaving our fair city, the reason why the road out of town suddenly seems to lead directly to Los Angeles and is paved in royal blue and Rams' gold. You are the reason why we may have to endure crickets on Sunday afternoon and listen to pundits moronically spew at the mouth about St. Louis' inability to support a NFL franchise. You are the reason why this city has to take one more hit, one more slap in the face, one more indignation and reminder of who we are and where we are supposed to fit in the world.
You, Stan Kroenke, are the second richest resident of Missouri. You are married to the third richest resident of Missouri. You have more money than just about every other person in this state, just about every other person who comes from where you come from, could ever imagine. And yet it is not enough. Will it ever be enough? You moved the Rams from Los Angeles to St. Louis in search of a stadium. You will at least try to move the Rams from St. Louis back to LA in search of an extra number being added to your ever-escalating net worth. In 20 or 30 years there's a distinct possibility that you will move the Rams into outer space as soon as you realize how easy it would be to finance a new stadium on any one of Jupiter's moons. You are not happy Stan. You are not satisfied. Enough is never enough. There is always more to be had.
That Stan is, at its very essence, its very core, the real reason why I despise you so much. There is always more to be had. More money. More stature. A bigger market. A fancier stadium. More rich guys who have to kowtow to what you want because you are just as rich, if not richer, than they are. More power. More greed. More influence. More. More. More. Whatever it takes to get it. Whenever you are able to grab it. Whoever's heart you have to rip out to achieve it. There is what you want to obtain Stan and there is everything else. The everything else is acceptable collateral damage.
There is nothing we can give you to quench that thirst for more Stan, nothing we can give you to appease your desire to reach higher and further until the bounteous wealth of the entire world is sitting squarely in your hands. You wanted a stadium. We built you one. You wanted to make money off of it. We bought tickets. We filled your stadium for 2 decades, filled it more than LA ever filled their's, filled it at or near 90% capacity even as the team has gone through a period of futility at times unheard of in the history of the National Football League.
You want a new stadium now, and you want us to pay for it, and before we can even tell you where and how and when we propose to do so you are dropping artist renderings of a new football palace in Inglewood, California that is supposed to be "just a real estate deal" that you will pay for your own damn self. You snap your fingers Stan and we hop to. I guess this time we didn't hop fast enough.
Maybe this is just a "real-estate" deal Stan, or a leverage play, or a way to ensure that you get what you want here, that you get what you desire without being labeled as a traitor in the state you call home. Maybe you will flip this stadium deal to the league or Dean Spanos or whoever wants it once St. Louis appeases you, once St. Louis gives you exactly what you want. Maybe somewhere deep down, in your heart of hearts, in the one and only place where you may remain a human being, you hope that this plays out a certain way, a way that will let you keep the team you own here, keep your team in the place where Stan The Man and Enos Slaughter gave you your namesake.
Maybe you are a sports fan Stan, but you are a businessman first. And let me tell you something that, as a businessman, you will never understand: sports fandom defies logic. It defies convention. It defies social and societal norms. Sports fandom transcends culture. It transcends human nature. It transcends anything else and everything else that we are supposed to know about the world.
Because sports fandom unites us; it bond us; it brings us together. Sports fandom causes us to care about something that is bigger than ourselves. Sports fandom causes us to look down at the grown man on the field or court, that grown man who is doing things that we never ever do ourselves, and to hope and wish and pull, with everything we have inside of us, for his success, because his success is our success, even if in every conceivable and concrete way his success doesn't impact our lives at all.
Sports fandom causes us to emit passion. Passion for the players. Passion for our teams. Passion for the communities that the players and teams represent. Passion for the communities that we, as fans, share with them. Civic pride. Civic togetherness. Civic solidarity. Glory not for me. Glory for everyone who cares about what I care about. Glory for everyone who's from where I'm from. Glory for everyone who loves what I love.
That's what sports fandom is ultimately all about Stan: love. I loved the Rams the instance that they step foot on a football field in St. Louis. I love the Rams right now. I have loved the Rams every minute of every second since. That love may not make sense. That love may be irrational. That love may not mean anything to anybody. Whether the Rams stay or go I am still here, still alive, still from St. Louis, still living my life. In every respect that love I have for a NFL team may be better devoted to something else. And yet it cannot be. And yet it will not be. And yet there is one thing and one thing only that I can love in this exact way: a professional football team that plays its home games in St. Louis, MO. A professional football team that plays in my hometown. A professional football team that plays in what I may irrationally and without reason consider to be the greatest city in the world.
That is why I hate you Stan: because I am stuck loving your team. Because I am stuck loving something you want to take away. Because I cannot comprehend how you cannot feel the way that I feel about the team that you own as well as the city and state that you so casually want to toss aside; I cannot comprehend how you can see a professional sports team as a commodity meant solely to enrich yourself and no one else; I cannot comprehend why you are so unwilling to be a part of something bigger than your own God damn bottom line. I cannot comprehend why you are so unwilling to be a human being, Stan. And I never will be able to.
The Rams may belong in St. Louis. The Rams may belong in LA. This is not a moral imperative. Either way one fan base will feel spurned while the other feels alive. There are way worse things that rich people, people in general, do every day than to move a football team from one city to the next. I do not care. I am not interested. I am not looking for perspective or point of view. I am a sports fan. And, as a sports fan, my team, and the illogical love that I have for them is all that I care about right here, right now, right in this piece of writing.
The national media can cast aspersions at us, using their supreme intellectual laziness and lack of attention to detail and context to surmise that St. Louis is a "Baseball Town," as if an ability to support one professional sports franchise ensures an inability to support another. The casual fan can shrug their shoulders and say something along the lines of "well they were there before," as if 20 years in a community is a blip on the radar, as if 2 decades of unconditional—and I mean unconditional—support, support far outmatching what the team got in their previous location, does not entitle a city to become a team's true home. The economists can nod their heads and tell everyone that this is a "smart move money wise" as if increasing the value of a property you will never ever sell does anything for you other than create figurative wealth on paper that will change your life Stan in absolutely no conceivable way.
None of that matters. What matters is you Stan, due to the fact that you Stan are the one who is listening to them. You Stan are the one who is agreeing with them. You Stan are the one who has decided that we are no longer worth anything to you, that we are not even worth the mental capacity it would take to listen to our proposal as we prepare to show you exactly what we have to offer. You have marginalized us. You have maligned us. You have emaciated us. You Stan have cut us off at the knees. You Stan have told the entire world that this is not where you want to be. You Stan have told the entire world that we are not good enough.
You Stan have turned your back on us. Even if you stay you have showed us all just how little you believe us to be worth. Even if you stay Stan, you are already a traitor.
Above all else, that is where this hatred and animosity comes from, Stan. You have already gobbled up the chance to turn your back on us. And, due to our love for your team, in spite of everything you have done to us, we are still not ready to turn our back on you.
The dumper always wins the break up Stan. No matter what happens, you've already dumped us. No matter what happens, you've already won. The prize is the ability to live with yourself Stan. I hope you enjoy it because, no matter what happens, I cannot live with you anymore.
I have loved the St. Louis Rams. I always will. Even if the guy who owns the team has decided that love is worth less than a piece of paper with a dead president's face on it. Even if the guy who owns the team has already decided that love is not worth anything at all.
Even if you Stan have decided that love, in general, is not something that you want or need to understand. There are a lot of words that we could use to describe the subject of this letter: petty, money hungry, selfish, greedy, conniving. Liar. You, Enos Stanley Kroenke are a liar.
Instead I'll just say this. You Enos Stanley Kroenke are no longer one of us. Whether that matters in the long run is up to you and you alone. One thing that people say about money is that, when everything is all said and done and you are clutching to those final sweet breaths of life, when you've reached the end, when it's over, no matter how much cash you have piled up in the Cayman Islands, you still can't take it with you.
You Enos Stanley Kroenke better hope that figure of speech is not true. Because, if it is, if you really can't take your money with you, then, at the end of the day, you might just find Stan that you have absolutely nothing else left.
You might just find Stan, how painful it can be to lose something that you love. Something that matters to you. Something you can never ever get back.
Something that, most of all, you never deserved to have taken from you in the first place.
Thoughts on Ferguson and My Hometown
Where were you when you heard the news, when you heard what was going down? I was sitting in the middle of a gigantic leather couch in a unit located on the third floor of an apartment building on N. Sarah Street, a half block North of West Pine, a half block South of Lindell Blvd., just West of Saint Louis University, just East of the "Central West End," about 3.5 miles from the Gateway Arch and the banks of the mighty Mississippi River as the crow flies. 3.5 miles from the symbol of our city. St. Louis, the Gateway to the West, the bustling river town that separates the country in all directions, North/South/East/West, the bustling river town that, in theory more than in practice, serves as the central hub for this great country, for these great United States of America. The bustling river town where I was born. The bustling river town where I will almost certainly die. St. Louis, MO, the first, and perhaps most considerable, love of my life.
St. Louis doesn't feel like St. Louis, not here, not now, not in this moment. Not in this instant. Right here, right now, St. Louis feels like something different, something foreign, something else. St. Louis does not feel like the place where I grew up. Not with the images of protestors running through the street, and tear gas canisters filling the air around them propping up on one side of the television screen and the form of a man in a shirt and tie, a man explaining how, exactly, the law has exonerated a police officer who shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old teenager, an unarmed 18-year-old black teenager, from criminal charges on the other. I have seen images of Baghdad. I have seen images of Ben Ghazi. I have seen images of Cairo and Tehran and Jerusalem and Beirut and Kiev. I have seen images of Paris when the tanks rolled through in the 40's and Saigon when the tanks rolled through in the 70's and I watched the live news feed from Kabul when the tanks rolled through after 9/11. I have seen these kind of images previously. They are not completely unique to me. And yet I have never seen anything like this before. I live in America. I live in St. Louis. And parts of my city are, quite literally, being burned to the ground.
This piece of writing was not written, was not meant, to be a denouncement of the justice system, or the grand jury, or the prosecutor or the now exonerated police officer himself. This piece was not written, was not meant, to discuss the results of their findings and how and why they may (or may not) be flawed and/or say something about the current state of society as a whole. Other, more talented and articulate people are doing that already, and we'd all be wise to listen. This piece of writing is not a cry for anger; it is not to be a plea for calm (although if I thought my pleas would help I would do so). This is not an opinion. This is not a judgment. This piece of writing is not an op-ed or a conclusion or a presumption. This piece of writing is not meant to assert right or wrong; innocence or guilt; pride or shame. I have my own viewpoint. I'm sure that all of you who may be reading this do too. You are entitled to them. More than likely I am not capable of changing it, and will not try to. Because, above all, this piece of writing was written, was meant, to be an observation. To tell you what I see. To wonder how and why I am seeing it. To contemplate what seeing it means.
I see men and women lining the streets, chanting "No Justice, No Peace" walking calmly and measurably with their hands up begging the officers driving around on their Humvees with their guns drawn not to shoot. I see men and women tipping police cruisers over on their axis, and throwing rocks through windows, and setting storefronts and parked cars ablaze. I see broken glass spilling out into the street. I see clouds of smoke and vapor shooting their way through the sky. I see choppers circling the movement, spotlights combing down from the heavens above and illuminating the people on the streets as they scatter below. I hear a gunshot or two ring out into the air. I don't want anybody to die. Sitting here, on this ocean of a black leather couch, I don't know what I would do with myself if another person died.
I've heard from more than one person I've come across throughout the course of my life that they've never met anyone who is more proud of where they are from than I am. No one ever mentioned this to me until I went away to college, went away from St. Louis, and people were, I guess, a little taken aback by how proudly I spoke about my hometown. I never heard this before I went away to college, before I went away from St. Louis, before I left the city of my birth and upbringing for somewhere where I was neither born nor raised, for some place else. I never heard this in St. Louis because here, in St. Louis, my civic pride was not unusual or worthy of notice. I never heard this in St. Louis because here, in St. Louis, I was not alone.
Not everyone I knew as a child loved this city. Not everyone I knew as a teenager wanted to stay. Not everyone I know now believes St. Louis is, and always will be, the greatest place on the entire planet. But everyone I knew, or know, who is from here, who is from St. Louis, shares one characteristic that is represents how we feel about this city unequivocally and without fail: everyone I knew, or know, who is from St. Louis is proud of that fact. Everyone I knew, or know, who grew up in St. Louis is proud of where they come from.
This shared pride, this common bond cemented between me and my fellow St. Louisans by the location of our upbringing, is front and center in my mind right now, a day removed from the grand jury's announcement and the violence that followed, as I look back on what I saw last night, as I reflect on the images flooding the TV screen, images that displayed parts of my city, parts of my hometown, as it burned. What is it that makes us care so much about our hometown? What is it that causes us to be so invested in, so devoted to, so unabashedly proud of, the city in which we existed—through no choice of our own—as we went from being a child to an being adult? Why do we give a shit? What did St. Louis give us that Kansas City or Indianapolis or Cleveland or Louisville or Milwaukee or wherever couldn't?
Nothing. Everything. The thing that makes us care, that makes us give a shit about our hometown, about the place where we went from being a child to being an adult, is that it is ours. It belongs to us. No one can be from where we are from, not exactly, not in entirely the same way that we are. No one could experience what we experienced, not exactly, not in entirely the same way that we do. We each are given the gift of a unique perspective, of our own personal way to see and relate to the world around us that cannot be duplicated by anyone or anything, no matter what, a perspective and personal way to see and relate to the world around us that will forever be ours and ours alone.
This perspective, this worldview is a gift. It's what makes us who we are. It's what makes us different from somebody else. This perspective, this worldview is shaped by a finite amount of things: the people in our lives, the practices we've endured, the backgrounds we've been exposed to, the places where we've been. Place counts. Place matters. Place helps to determine who we are, both within the confines of our own mind and in the various moments when we choose to leave those confines and engage with others, engage with the big, scary world that surrounds us every second of every day.
That's why we love St. Louis. St. Louis is a part of us deep down, on a cellular level, on a level where the core of our being exists. St. Louis helped to mold and shape us into the people we are today, good, bad, indifferent. St. Louis provided a variety of experiences that were one of a kind, that were truly exclusive, that are known to St. Louis and St. Louis alone. We are from St. Louis. But St. Louis is in us.
On an episode of the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, Pawnee Parks Director Ron Swanson echoes some advice he once gave to his Deputy Director Leslie Knope when she asked him about a job offer she had received from a neighboring city in Indiana. "You'll get a lot of job offers in your life," Ron Swanson said. "But you only ever have one hometown."
You only ever have one hometown. That's what makes it special. That's what makes it mean something. That's what, by definition, makes it unique. You only ever get one. You do not choose it. It chooses you. And it is a part of you forever.
The sun set on St. Louis last night and my hometown devolved into something I didn't recognize, something I had never seen before. My hometown devolved into a war zone. Not without cause. Not without reason. And not without sending us a clear and important directive on how and why we need to change our city, how and why we need to change something about who we, as a community, are.
Darkness fell on St. Louis last night and we all received the message loud and clear. Change is coming because it needs to. Change is coming because we have to do better, to be better. Change is coming because St. Louis, in our minds at least, is an ideal and a standard, because St. Louis, in our minds at least, needs to do more to live up to its promise, to be the city we all picture in our minds while we beam with pride whenever we are telling people exactly where it is that we come from.
Let me communicate this through the words of one of the greatest natives this city has ever known:
"It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London." -T.S. Eliot
I consider myself fortunate to have been born here too. And hopefully just about every person reading this post believes that their fortune fits that description as well. Our goal now is to nurture that pride, to grow that affection, to allow everyone who is born in this town from here until entirety to feel the exact same way about our city as we do. Not because this city is perfect, but because it is trying to be. Because we, the people in it, are trying to be. Because we, the people in it, make the city what it is. Because this city is ours and ours alone.
The night is over now, and morning has come. To paraphrase my friend and perhaps the smartest person I know Joe Monahan, it is now time to wake up St. Louis. Because we've got work to do.
Dear Readers,
As almost none of you know, both because I have never shared any of my "in-progress" work with anyone who could potentially judge it and hurt my feelings by telling me that my jokes have been the exact same for much, if not all, of the past 24.56 years of my life—aka the entire period of my existence where I knew how to speak (yes I learned how to talk at age 1.44)—without having the cover of published Internet writer to back up my self-esteem and because I doubt any one of you out there are really Ellen Paige and have the ability to burrow deep inside my mind and plant a tiny thought nugget that will one day grow up to be a full fledged terrible and poorly executed idea and/or see that I am thinking weirdly erotic thoughts about you featuring several of your exposed pregnant scenes from the film Juno (eh…what?), I was set to publish an entirely different blog today, an upcoming piece of writing detailing both my belief in magic and the many wishes that I hope that said belief will earn me that can only improve an already dominant existence, but have decided to go in a different direction. Mainly because I couldn't write that other blog due to the fact that I 1-Didn't try very hard and 2-Spent all of my time this week doing things like sleeping, snapchatting pictures of my feces and saying what up to the girl in my gym after she caught a glimpse of me throwing up 225 lbs. on the bench for 2 reps like it was a bar made out of feathers or something.
Dear Readers,
As all of you know, both because you have seen Risky Business and because you have seen Screech, Zack Morris, and AC Slater recreate Risky Business' most famous scene only to have that nerd Violet break Screech's mother's ceramic Elvis statue, house sittin' can be a dangerous proposition. The litany of bilious temptations put forth in front of your average house sitter—who is, in one way or another, being trusted to be responsible for someone else's property, pets, or perhaps even Cool Whip without the threat of consequence, since, like, they don't have to sleep on the sheets they just soiled ever again once you, the home owner, arrive back to your abode and discover the defecated on silk covering your Queen sized mattress—is certainly nothing short of overwhelming. Imagine being a house broken lion that is then rereleased into the wild yet is also ironically expected to live by the same house rules in the jungle he was just abiding to in his human parent's attic. That makes no sense does it? Well, neither does expecting a 26-year-old who lives in his parent's attic to treat your house like a respectable piece of architecture now that he is no longer living under his mother and father's roof and can, in essence, do whatever the F he wants without being told to shut the hell up and take out the recycling.
WALTER WHITE stepped out of the darkness with his eyes open. His eyes had always been opened, literally from the second he reached out to that great light, it was just that, for a while there, there was really nothing to see. Walter White had laid there, on the floor of nephew Todd and Uncle Jack's meth laboratory with his eyes open and had walked toward that beautiful bright light beaming through the frame of his coke bottle glasses with his eyes open and had entered the black hole of nothingness, of none continuance, of blank emptiness devoid of time and space and presence with his eyes open, and now he was here, back in the dim light, standing in front of a black door sporting a sign reading "Elevator" in big, block, golden letters with an arrow pointing straight ahead and an smaller text warning to "enter at your own risk" below viewing it all with his eyes wide open. He was not sure how, but he knew this: right now, at this very moment, Walter White did in fact exist. He could see it. He could feel it. He could sense that it was true. One way or the other Walt White was still alive. One way or another Walter White's story was not quite over yet.
Dear Readers,
As you already know—both because you are currently doing it and because you have all seen the movie Office Space and memorized it word for word in an attempt to convince yourself that your name is really Michael Bolton, and therefore your life has some modest pendulum of coincidental meaning as well—being a part of the work force is not all that it's cracked up to be. There are some pluses to having a job sure. Health Insurance is nice when you eat more than 40 White Castles in any given week. A 401K can come in handy when you need to retire or have a mental break down or are forced to resign from your job for having copious amounts of "death by horse cock" videos saved to the desktop of your work computer or something like that—to be honest I am not sure what a 401K is. An actual paycheck is very useful when you actually want to buy stuff like Whiskey or Honey Nut Cheerios or lawn ornaments or boom boxes or beanie babies or what have you. All of these aspects of possessing a job are good things. They are the reasons that people work in the first place.
The Sack Goes to Utah...Which Isn't Just For Mormons Anymore (It's Just Mainly For Mormons Now)
Dear Readers,
As all of you undoubtedly know—both because I have written copious tales of my own adventures and you have seen my semi-autobiographical film Journey to the Center of the Earth starring Braden Fraser as a slightly less handsome/completely less talented version of myself (what I can say…Martin Lawrence was all booked up)—the Sack is no stranger to world travels. Because, like Brendan Fraser and Amerigo Vespucci before me, I have transversed the Globe, trekking North, South, East, West, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest, North by Northwest, and to the hospital of North West's birth in my quest to see, hear, know and understand everything that this giant planet has to offer. Like the Greek Dude Odysseus before me, my odyssey has been filled with mythical sirens and semi-naked babes who are into my neck beard and athletic sandal travel attire combo. It has been a magical experience. And one I would not trade for anything other the opportunity to record 90-minutes of whiny white-people sounds with the one and only Alanis Morisette (and yes I am listening to her Spotify Station right now). Jamming with God? That's a billion dollar idea if I have ever heard one.


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