Tag: Hustle

• October 5, 2011

  Hustle hustle hustle (Part 3): Terre Haute is bust

  Terre Haute is Bust (December 30, 2006) Relationships, like tires, wear down, little by little, before they wear out. (Oh, but how we tire of tires. They too get old.) For hundreds, no thousands of miles, no for months on end, there had been a whirring coming from somewhere around the left front wheel. That…
• October 4, 2011

  Hustle hustle hustle (Part 2): 2 chefs and a definition

  2 Chefs I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Soho. It’s dark, abnormally dark for a coffee shop, and I’m re-reading my copy of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. On my right, two men, dressed in suits, are talking hurriedly. I take them to be investment bankers working on Wall Street, but I come to find,…
• October 3, 2011

  Hustle hustle hustle (Part 1)

  This is Part 1 of a 3-part series. Below, I pose a set of questions to make you think about the nature and prevalence of hustling. In Part 2, I examine these questions. In Part 3, I aim to replace the vocabulary of hustling with that of the conversation. — 1.) Word Association: What comes…