I wish I had stayed put more but that's not how life is up with precarious labor and with

changing relationships and you know all sorts of different needs so I've moved a lot.

I think the the most absurd housing situation I had was a really nicely cheap but not

very nice apartment on the lower east side that I lived in in 2006 2007. It was my

former professor's place and I had graduated from college a couple years before that and both of them were working in different places

And neither could be there and so they offered the place to me and my then girlfriend. We moved in

First thing we had to do is fix all the holes in the floor

because from the apartment below

was leaking up lime plaster, which will kill you. you. So we had to plug that up but why was it

leaking lime plaster it was leaking lime plaster because it had been fire bombed

by the landlord. Oh, geez.

And before that, that same landlord had tried to kill that tenant with a heroin overdose

or hang off her drug dealer.

Holy shit.

That's insane.

Yeah. There was still broken glass in some of the window beds from when the fire department had come in when the

landlord had tried to blow up the apartment.

How did the landlord fire bomb it exactly.

Paid the, I believe the same drug dealer to spread gasoline in a match.

Jesus Christ.

Do you not know the story of the Bronx is burning, babe the 70s? I do yes. Yeah so the

reason why the Bronx was burning is because landlords back then were doing the

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