Quenching a News Thirsty Moonshineopolis
Posted in Hobo Weather on Aug 25th, 2010
I awoke this morning with a strange instinct to make my bed. Also, something inside my gut kept tugging at me and whispering to my brain to “take a loan out of the bank and start a business consulting on railroad construction” whatever that means. As we approach the middle of the Dawg-Bog Days of [...]
Posted in Haiku Friday on Jan 15th, 2010
We’ve had some great feedback from our fans on Facebook and I’d like to share some of the haikus they’ve created that celebrate Hobo Digest and the hobo lifestyle.
This haiku came courtesy of Jeff:
Dining on a shoe
Sipping Wild Irish Rose
Ah, this is the life
After the first two lines the poem can end one of two [...]
Posted in Boxes on Jan 6th, 2010
Among all the murmurs you can hear if you put your ear to the cold train tracks, you’ll hear this question pop up the most, “Where did this dog come from?” Most of the dogs in Moonshineopolis are brought in on trains passing through or retrieved from the trash. For a dog to arrive in [...]
Posted in Lore on Dec 27th, 2009
With his bag dripping with freshly rusted toys,
Ives kicked open his door to persuade all the girls and boys.
But in the time it took to fry the turtle-doves,
And dip all of the ham-stitched gloves,
The sky got sick and began to vomit up snow,
Without any light it’s hard for Ives to figure out where to go.
But [...]
Posted in Hobo Culture on Sep 26th, 2009
Despite our best efforts, Moonshineopolis has become the beacon of hope for the hobo world. The beacon pulses gently through the night to let other knows that civilization will be a-okay and no one needs to go buy a car or submit to the will of an employer. Still, paranoia creeps its way into [...]