
Going to Work with Leesa Cross-Smith
Leesa Cross-Smith writes really dope stuff that makes me nostalgic about my hometown, and about...
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by Bud Smith | Jan 4, 2017 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
Leesa Cross-Smith writes really dope stuff that makes me nostalgic about my hometown, and about...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Oct 25, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
Yesterday Was Boring, Who Knows About Today I work in an oil refinery, where I’m...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Oct 4, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
I’m sitting here and I don’t know the right way to make art or how to cook a steak....
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Sep 12, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
Summer is over, but yesterday I went swimming in a pool at an old age retirement community where I...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Aug 23, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
1 / There’s a nuclear power plant right down the road from where I grew up. For most...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Aug 2, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
Troy James Weaver writes books that remind me of the feeling of getting bailed out, saved, given a sudden second chance when there shouldn’t be another one; when I leave the headlights...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Jul 19, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
My coworkers haven’t mentioned any of the recent problems with the world, but my coworkers have been rambling on, in constant outrage about Pokemon Go.
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Jun 21, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
1 We’re driving in our car away from...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Jun 13, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
I remember driving very fast down Double Trouble Road in Berkley Township, NJ. I’d had my...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | May 31, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
After the freak show, where we’d seen the boy werewolf and the sword swallower and...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | May 24, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
I don’t know why I like reading about people’s jobs so much. It’s not like I go to parties and stand there blocking the way to get to the beer cooler or the wine, saying to everyone, “Oh, and what do you...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | May 17, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
Troll Dolls and Scarecrows Feel like every job a person could ever get has a downside. Has a...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | May 10, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
1. I got eaten by life and just recently was spit back out. I’m glad that happened. Hi, It’s 5am...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | May 3, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
1. When my parent’s separated, I started running. Long distance along the winding dirt trails that...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Apr 26, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
Stinger: a clamp you put a welding rod in and hold in your hand. Fire Watch: Person who...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Apr 19, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
You don’t need anybody’s permission to write. You don’t have to be smarter than anybody else on the school bus. You don’t even have to be on the school bus.
You don’t need anybody’s permission to draw pictures or paint paintings. Technical proficiency is not what we are after anyway. If I wanted to see lifelike, I’d look at a photograph. Don’t feel bad if you are the kind of human with the shaky hands.
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Apr 12, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
When I walked into the trailer for coffee break, my boss was sitting in my chair. “Bad news....
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Mar 29, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
A few years ago, I got a few Scott McClanahan books in the mail. They came on a Thursday night and...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Mar 22, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
It wouldn’t stop snowing and I worked outside doing brick work. Ice storms...
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Mar 15, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
When it’s going good, I write on my coffee breaks and lunch breaks at the oil...
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