19th Sep 2002
The Homless Guy’s Blog
Matt Welch points out TheHomesslessGuy.Blogspot.com. Seems legit, tho not sure. He’s quite savvy to the ways of the blogosphere, and citing Charles Bukowski and Tom Waits as influences sounds like a joke, but then he also seems savvy to the ways of sleeping on the street. Provocative reading either way.
I actually had an idea for a while about starting a non-profit network helping put homeless street papers online, networked together across the country. Homeless could get Internet access and online training and pool their writing resources across the country for a kind of homeless news portal. Needless to say, it went the way of most of my great ideas — back to sleep.
UPDATE: Said homeless guy, who’s name is Kevin Barbieux, by the way, found my post and wrote me to assure me that he is, indeed, homeless and gave me a name at the national coalition for the homeless to check his references. I’ll take his word for it. Reading his writings in more detail, it’s clear he has an insight to life on the street that would be hard to invent. It’s also clear he’s an intelligent, compassionate person who writes better than many other bloggers. I wish him the same peace he offered me in signing his email.
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