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I’m sitting here and I don’t know the right way to make art or how to cook a steak....
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by 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 | 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 | Mar 1, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
For a month, I recorded an audio book for my second novel, F250 in my apartment on 173rd street in NYC at night when I came home from my job at the oil refinery. Here’s how it went down …
Read Moreby Bud Smith | Feb 2, 2016 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
You can never get good enough at welding. There’s always something you can’t weld,...
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