Haha I am jealous, with my little ones home all day, I describe trying to clean my house like "trying to brush your teeth while eating oreos". 

I enjoyed this article. I get the whole idea of clothing as expression of self, identity, politics, etc. I also, rather obviously I think (because you can’t really take another position) that we’ve commodified “rebellion” and the look of rebellion.  But I honestly have always thought that the most rebellious and…

In all seriousness, the ones I see around here mostly seem to bag and haul, at least when their efforts yield enough to be worth bothering with. However, there definitely are occasions whey they just blast leaves and dirt off the client’s premises and into the public street or common areas.

Here’s my tinfoil hat explanation: leaf blowers keep lawn maintenance companies in business. Think about it. Instead of removing debris, leaf blowers just push the debris into other areas. Then all it takes is for a gust of wind to move the debris back onto the landscaped lawn. Whelp, better go call the landscaping…

I used to have a neighbor that I am convinced would mow his lawn to get away from his wife. He actually mowed bald spots into his lawn.

From what I can tell in my neighborhood, leaf blower men have no interest in excercise.

Interesting that you write about this. In the sixties, the clothes we wore did not cross over to parents wearing them. As time has gone on, clothing styles seem to be for the masses rather than for groups. It’s all sort of mushed together.

a number of houses by me use landscapers, and each crew has two or three guys with these things

We call our neighbor Vroom Vroomington. He has some sort of lawn machinery going every freaking day.

He used to use a feather duster, so I suppose it is too delicate for that. 

I’m surprised he doesn’t have a power buffer for that.

It used to be that the counterculture utilized détournement to fuck with capitalism. Capitalists decided they could play that game better. 

My parents have a neighbor who will use anything that has an internal combustion engine, paired with seeming near obsessive compulsive tendencies. So everything has to be loud, but also takes ages because they are measuring stuff.

For me, leaf blower man is the guy across the street, and the guy next to him, and the guy behind us. Thankfully only one has a truly obnoxious blower. Problem is, a number of houses by me use landscapers, and each crew has two or three guys with these things - they’re at it as I’m typing. And all they’re doing is…

I feel like raking would be a better way to escape the family. It takes longer, plus you get some exercise.

We have two older guys who mow their lawns every other day. Like literally, every two days they're out there. We do not live in a neighborhood where the HOA will get after you for an unkempt lawn or anything like that either. 

We’ve got a guy with an angle grinder on one side (“Grinderman”); a jackhammer on another side and a welder somewhere in the vicinity. All day every day. It’s driving me nuts. 

We have a leaf blower man in our neighborhood. I swear he only uses the leaf blower as an excuse to get away from his family because he is out there leaf blowing for hours and hours. He’ll start at 5:30 and he’s still out there at 8:30, after it is dark! What is he blowing away? No one knows! The front “lawns” in our…

I do the ‘put an egg on it’ meal composition all the time but I’m honestly not 100% sure I’ve ever nailed the precise ‘jammy’ thing they’re going for. I’m a confident, pretty well-seasoned cook though, so I know how I like my eggs and I just do that. A squishy over-easy in some contexts, a barely-set hard boiled for…

Wow, I assumed the care for natural hair would be wash, comb and forgetaboutit*. It still needs extensive care with special products? Migod.