Okay, here's the gag. I'm openly, blatantly, annoyingly, shamelessly homeless and unsheltered. I feel no need to be shy about a situation I don't like but can't change. I fight police and government harrassment that tries to drive me out of sight with scathing worldwide publicity, the best tool at my command. I will stay homeless until I find a job and can afford to be otherwise while also affording food, a more pressing need. I meet lots of other, deserving homeless folks as a result of my own situation.
brian welby poore sent me this, for encouragement:
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." -- Henry Kaiser
Meanwhile, somewhere on the planet, a minor genius invented the idea of tee-shirt humiliation. He had tee-shirts made up at his own expense. The tee-shirts bore the corporate logo of some detested employer. He then distributed the tee-shirts to the scruffiest homeless people he could find, people very much like me. Now passers-by would forever associate that employer and logo with scruffiness and the need to stay upwind. Revenge is a dish best served cleverly.
This came up in discussion in Usenet's talk.bizarre, where I'd been being brazenly homeless. Now denizens there are sending me used, unwanted tee-shirts bearing logos of their detested employers. These are for my own use or to pass along to the local deservingly scruffy. I live in bleak, chronically high unemployment, obsessedly homeless harrassing, Fresno County, California, USA. This is a good place for your tee-shirt's logo owner to be humiliated in like fashion.
You too can participate in this fun enterprise. There is no need to have a shirt printed at your own expense, though. Just dig back in the closet for that one the company provided that you swore you'd die rather than wear. Pack up your angers, and send them all to me. Use the cheapest postal rate available, there's no hurry, I've been sleeping on pavement since 2001/06/06.
I'm here:
Kent Paul Dolan
General Delivery
Clovis, California, United States of America 93612-9999
The way they treat the homeless here, there's every chance of your tee-shirt starring in a jail mug shot. For example, I get my next opportunity to go to jail for being unsheltered on 2002/09/12 in Clovis, California Municipal Court, charged with two counts of "lodging" on a public sidewalk without permission.
I wear an XL (extra large), but the homeless in general come in all sizes including toddler and infant.
I already have received more tee-shirts than I personally can use, since I have to drag my belongings with me everywhere I go and so am very weight sensitive. I will be quickly finding ways to pass these and any others I should receive along to the several thousand homeless in Fresno County as the tee-shirts continue to arrive, and to homeless wherever I get a job if that should occur someday. There's no need for a good thing to stop just because I get lucky.
| First Used | Worn or Held By | Target / Tee-Shirt Legend / Stuff | Place of Origin | Thanks To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002/09/10 | Kent Paul Dolan | London Business School, London MBA | Munich, Germany | Chris |
| 2002/09/12 | Kent Paul Dolan | SCI, Plant 3 | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/09/13 | Jan Rush | SCI | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/09/21 | Kent Paul Dolan | SCI, Summer Outing, Huntsville Stars | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/10/01 | Kent Paul Dolan | SCI, Plant 3 | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/10/04 | Kent Paul Dolan | Microsoft TechNet | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/09/14 | Kent Paul Dolan | Microsoft Visio2000 | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/09/29 | Kent Paul Dolan | Microsoft WindowsXP Professional Launch 2001 | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/09/19 | Kent Paul Dolan | Microsoft Project 2000 | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/09/26 | Kent Paul Dolan | Microsoft Windows 2000 | Huntsville, Alabama, USA | Gary |
| 2002/09/16 | Kent Paul Dolan | AT&T 1-800-CALL-ATT | Middletown, New Jersey, USA | Alice & Ray |
| 2002/09/18 | Kent Paul Dolan |
Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency Scanning Centre More Way to Serve You! |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Nik |
| 2002/09/24 | Kent Paul Dolan |
Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency Scanning Centre More Ways to Serve You! |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Nik |
| 2002/10/16 | Kent Paul Dolan | Bruce McPherson for Lieutenant Governor | Fresno, California, USA | anonymous campaign worker |
| 2003/02/07 | Kent Paul Dolan | NCR -- We're passionate about making a difference. | Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | Dave |
| Stray goodies also received which I have no intention of sharing. | ||||
| 2002/09/16 | Kent Paul Dolan | dried meat & fruit, tangy beverage | Hawthorne, Florida, USA | Markian |
| 2002/09/18 | Kent Paul Dolan | Original Nic "Dead White Man" Painting on Postcard Stock | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Nik |
| not yet | Kent Paul Dolan | personal twig and leaf fueled cookstove | Hawthorne, Florida, USA | Markian |
I'm sure you'll agree with those sending the tee-shirts that this is a deserving lot of scoundrels to be remembered this way on the backs of the downtrodden and eminently scruffy homeless of Fresno County. Go thou and do likewise. In the process maybe you'll help make Fresno County's homeless famous and so more difficult to abuse. Links to this page will make it easier for others to find, for those of you with web sites of your own and an interest in homeless issues or just general mischief making for detested employers.
You can follow the travails of the Fresno County, California homeless, and the scandalous local governments' battles to shove them out of sight and out of desirable areas of the planet, via The Fresno Bee daily newspaper, or The Clovis Independent weekly newspaper.
If there are fixes needed to this page,
contact the maintainer here:
Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@well.com>