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Observations From the Underemployed Life

The Good For Nothing Connoisseur is a self-appointed man of leisure who takes a considered look at aspects of modern life and riffs on them. The guiding purpose is to improve the quality of inner life. Yours, mine, his, hers, theirs. To start a rumpus in the motel room behind the forehead bone where thoughts go to procreate.

The Good4Nothing Connoisseur is one half of a partnership that is increasingly common these days, the Modern Marriage where the misses brings home the lion’s share of the bacon.

I am not sure why I was so chosen to find a woman who actually loves to work and seems not to mind that I don’t. Actually she does: I get read the riot act if I sleep in late; any seconds past 7:35 AM are listed as felonious as I’m supposed to get our daughter dressed, fed, her lunch made and off to school.

In essence the Good 4 Nothing Connoisseur (G4NC) is an aristocrat who feels entitled to sit around at least 3 hours a day reading the newspaper. And then another 3 hours that night reading some obscure text on Montgolfier the hot air balloon inventor, or tips for time travel, or the history of the Huichol Indian Peyote Hunt.

The G4NC will write about such subjects, but may swerve unpredictably and frequently toward the mundane arts, raving about anything from coffee, film, politics, wine, travel, bad films and hors d’oeuvres.

The Good For Nothing Connoisseur

The Good For Nothing Connoisseur

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