When I was still a young man Beck released the song "Loser." In 1993 the Reagan era was in collapse, Generation X was still a viable concept, Clinton was President and it appeared that a life of low-wage unfulfilling work loomed ahead of all of us who weren't Boomers. I was in graduate school, living with a bunch of other graduate students in a newly gentrifying neighborhood in San Francisco, the students and white kids slowly moving into apartments recently vacated by African-American families. (Not all of those families were economic refugees; our landlord was African American, and that was true for about half the places I lived in San Francisco).
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Perdido
When I was still a young man Beck released the song "Loser." In 1993 the Reagan era was in collapse, Generation X was still a viable concept, Clinton was President and it appeared that a life of low-wage unfulfilling work loomed ahead of all of us who weren't Boomers. I was in graduate school, living with a bunch of other graduate students in a newly gentrifying neighborhood in San Francisco, the students and white kids slowly moving into apartments recently vacated by African-American families. (Not all of those families were economic refugees; our landlord was African American, and that was true for about half the places I lived in San Francisco).
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