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Also, I just want to thank everyone who has followed and/or backed my project over the years. Without your monetary support or verbal encouragement, it'd be harder for me to tramp around doing what I do. Recently, I got two very nice messages over at Intrepid Report. I really do appreciate them.




E.T.

I continue to love Linh Dinh’s blogs and his continued blogging about our decaying USA. The neighborhoods all hit by an evaporating economy (unless you are looking at TV’s House Hunters or House Hunters International), the disappearing jobs (now a crown jewel of the UA) with the accompanying homelessness and homeless that transit those neighborhoods; the crimes that are part and parcel of this downtrend: so powerful a denial of all the hype going on on the homeland television sets that pundits, corporations, politicians and the one percent bring to our screens every day almost 24/7 of that mythical USA that now exists only and for the most part on those screens and in the absurd world of, “denial”.
Looking at Linh Dinh’s photos in his blog, although many miles away from where his wanderings take him, I see my own neighborhood with empty, abandoned houses taken over by the banks because people who lost their jobs could not continue to pay their mortgages (or their rents to owners who could equally not continue to pay their mortgages without the rental income).

Every morning searching for a ray of hope, I go to Linh Dinh’s blog (sometimes more than once a day) to look at and read whatever it is that he has posted there. But, how can it be a ray of hope when he writes about and posts photos of a deteriorating USA?: the homeless, the hopeless, the our of work ordinary every day human being, those who find consolation in bottle after bottle of beer or whatever kind of liquor they can afford or peddle out of anyone else.

It is because Linh Dinh speaks not above anyone’s head, it is because he fears not going down into the god awful muck of poverty, joblessness and homelessness that he is able to speak without spin and speak the truth that I find his posts so alluring.
You see, truth speaks to me. I think it has a healing curative power to it.

Thank you, Linh Dinh. And thank you, Bev for bringing his posts to Intrepid Report.




Al Hunter (@rastalam)

I’d also like to thank you. I’ve followed your writings & photos for a while. They speak honestly. I like that you talk to real people. As a senior with disabilities I know I am a step away from a life without a kitchen, without the $ to even look after my companion cat. Those with resources today have no compassion & don’t realize that this can easily be the future they’ve designed for themselves.





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