Your Unemployed Daughter

photo credit: joysaphine

I have this joke with my bff S. that comes up pretty regularly nowadays. It all started the morning of January 1, 2009. She’d had a party at her apartment and I’d stayed over to avoid having to fight for a cab home at 4 am. I was lying in bed rather hungover/groggy, and she was reading the New York Times—in particular, a story on people found guilty of the torture and sex trafficking of young girls.

“Can you believe it?” she said. “Horrible!”

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photo credit: vogelfd

Hey guys,
So, someone I think you may know is writing a recession column on this rather cool site called True/Slant, and we think/hope you will like it…

Please follow our intrepid writer so that she gets kudos from her semi-employers and they willingly hand over her monthly stipend so she can keep herself in Ramen.

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photo credit: Articulate Matter

I have no idea how this picture relates to this post. Perhaps I am the squid chasing his escapee prawns, or maybe I am the leader in the “out of the pot” charge, or maybe I’m just stirring the pot. But it’s weird enough to love, no?

Anyway, I have a confession: I missed a post!

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photo credit: kevindooley

Last night I had dinner with a group of friends, one of whom admitted that he was “a little bit afraid of the blog.”

Oh dear. It was not YUD’s intention to strike fear in the hearts of men (or maybe it was, a little). But it is an interesting side effect.

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