July 24, 2002
How We Feel Homeless?
"Earlier this month two Derek Clark, 24, and Scotty Weeks, 25, left their comfortable apartments to live on the streets of Seattle for a week and get a taste of what life is like for the homeless," writes billmcn. "They kept a weblog of their adventures begging for change, eating at a soup kitchen, and passing around a bottle of Thunderbird. The whole business is all about as stupid and patronizing as it sounds, and the pair have been properly excorciated by the local media. Still, their variation of this stunt was pulled off with less than the usual heaping of self-serving piety. Clark and Weeks are clearly aware that they are dilettantes, turning what was nominally a descent to the lowest rung of society into a kind of camping trip. "As for now,I am counting the minutes to my shower and my hot cup of super-premium coffee," is how Weeks concludes the final entry of his weblog. Well, that's nothing if not honest."
Posted at July 24, 2002 03:45 PM | Entertainment
