There’s this kid sitting across from me on the 6 that, I swear, reminds me of a cross between Neo from The Matrix and Eddie Munster. Sorry no pic available, he looks a little too much like a Colombine Jedi for me too be messing with him in the AM… There hasn’t been a train ride where something eventful or just randomly hilarious hasn’t happened in years… Maybe it’s just my eyes and my sense of humor, I don’t know.
If you live in the city or you watch the national news, you’ve heard about our Department of Health’s new pamphlet that came out about Heroin last week. It’s a sixteen page disease-awareness/ prevention guide or manual on heroin for heroin users. When I first heard about this on CNN over the weekend, I didn’t understand what all the hooplah was about and I really didn’t care much. Our mayor along with the Department of Health are always doing radical things that get national attention-sometimes wise, sometimes overreaching, sometimes a little nonsensical. For example: You can’t smoke in bars anymore, but you can get free condoms there, thank the mayor. In the winter, we might arrest a bum for not accepting warm shelter, last summer we were giving out bus tickets for them to leave the city. Once again, thanks, mayor.
I really didn’t see what all the fuss about with spreading the word about how to keep yourself safe when engaging in high-risk behavior. Isn’t that what Departments Of Health are supposed to do, they warned us about bed bugs and swine flu also, right? I had to find out for myself what the big deal was, so I managed to find the PDF version on the web (you won’t find it though, the linksite mysteriously vanished Tuesday morning.) In regards to bed bugs and swine flu: This Pamphlet Is Not The Same. Well, firstly people don’t outwardly seek bed bugs and H1N1, heroin use is a choice (at least it is that first time.) This flier gives you a play-by-play on how to shoot-up, from acquiring to disposing of needles, with street vernacular and everything: “only boot once or twice in one shoot…” I don’t even know what that means, it kind of makes me think there was a city official in a suit in tie on the block asking ‘Pookie’ for slang terms while he did the dope-lean in front of the bodega on Delancey and Ludlow. Read more…
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