shame, the great motivator

this:

plus this

equals this:


shame, the great motivator. i called the city/county at least 10 times over the course of a week to get this cleaned up with no response. i got routed through the most labyrinthine channels imaginable in municipal bureaucratic hell, as no one wanted to deal with this not-so-big dumpsite next to gus' little league field. i posted my adventures on duke city fix and was contacted by a local TV reporter. so together we shamed the city into action. i almost wish i had picked a bigger target--if public humiliation is all it takes to make the city do something, then i should have asked for something more! regardless, the dumpsite is now gone.

and i look like a cow on that video as my goddamned baby weight just isn't going away on its own...is it still baby weight after two years? sadly, i think it's weight weight now. again, shame, the great motivator.