Steve Dublanica wrote one of my favorite blogger-makes-good books called Waiter Rant, in which he tells the world what he thinks about restuarants and the dinning public at large. He lived and died by how much he was tipped-and he hated people who didn’t tip, much as an Assembly Line Portrait Photographer hates people who don’t buy. In Keep The Change, Steve ventures into the universe of tipping. Being a poor schmuck myself, my own tipping activities are limited to restuarants with wait staff and my semi-annual haircut. And I’ll be honest, I’d rather not tip the random woman at…
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No Shortage of Good Days
John Gierach is a fly fisherman who has managed to turn his love into his profession. He gets paid to roam around the country looking for little used trout streams and pull trouts out of them. Along the way he talks about his hippie days, how he feels about the new rich, and how book tours are not as much as you might think. His many opinions all lead, one way or another, to fishing, specifically, fly fishing. I’m not a fly fisherman, though I have been known to do a bit of fishing for carp, catfish, and the occasion…