So we're going forward with the Amtrakization of the economy? I was out in Gravesend again this morning and felt like warning the Russians to try another country because we've decided they were right after all. Stand by for Glorious Five-Year Plan.

On the subway the other morning, a guy was reading a book called "Federal Prison/Work Camp" and I peeked at the section headings over his shoulder. Under "Friends", it promised you'll make good friends in federal prison. Damn, I need to get out of this apartment, I'd like to make some friends, maybe Federal work camp is the place for me? Thoughts on non-violent means of getting myself put in one will be appreciated. Don't say tax evasion, for the second year, I'm a loser who doesn't owe any.

But neither am I in the same category as the people I'm working with in downtown Brooklyn. They not only don't owe taxes, we somehow owe them thousands!