For me the seminal hobo texts are Jack Black's YOU CAN'T WIN (the intersectionality of hoboism and professional crime) and Robert Aldrich's 1973 film EMPEROR OF THE NORTH POLE, with Lee Marvin as Apex Hobo A-No.1.
O, Lee Marvin. Yes, thank you--the novels and movies now hardly would be understood. So glad to have them if these few words generate interest. Illuminate the facts better than the facts.
A digression, but I've always been fascinated with the retro-Depression trend in 1970s US pop culture. Everything from Hollywood movies to graphic design.
..then I reflect on the fact that we today are more distant in time from the 1970s than the 1970s were from the 1930s, and I get, well, depressed.
I'm absolutely showing my age here -- and I think this criticism is already implicit in your post -- but what is the point of a virtual reality simulation of being a hobo? Someone spent money to create this and someone else is spending money on it. It would be more authentic and less expensive (although riskier) to simply be a hobo in real life; the trains are still there.
O, I agree. I watched the run-through and was quite stunned by the casual references to day labor and begging. It seemed to be produced with no recognition of context. But I think most video games do this with history. Also, since the players wouldn't have their cell-phones they couldn't imagine riding the rails.
The free speech zone was destroyed by God when it didn't follow his diversity, equity and inclusion Commandment. The descendants of the organizations moved into city hall. All is well with the universe.
For me the seminal hobo texts are Jack Black's YOU CAN'T WIN (the intersectionality of hoboism and professional crime) and Robert Aldrich's 1973 film EMPEROR OF THE NORTH POLE, with Lee Marvin as Apex Hobo A-No.1.
O, Lee Marvin. Yes, thank you--the novels and movies now hardly would be understood. So glad to have them if these few words generate interest. Illuminate the facts better than the facts.
A digression, but I've always been fascinated with the retro-Depression trend in 1970s US pop culture. Everything from Hollywood movies to graphic design.
..then I reflect on the fact that we today are more distant in time from the 1970s than the 1970s were from the 1930s, and I get, well, depressed.
When the landscape of your life becomes the backdrop of their movies.
I'm absolutely showing my age here -- and I think this criticism is already implicit in your post -- but what is the point of a virtual reality simulation of being a hobo? Someone spent money to create this and someone else is spending money on it. It would be more authentic and less expensive (although riskier) to simply be a hobo in real life; the trains are still there.
O, I agree. I watched the run-through and was quite stunned by the casual references to day labor and begging. It seemed to be produced with no recognition of context. But I think most video games do this with history. Also, since the players wouldn't have their cell-phones they couldn't imagine riding the rails.
The free speech zone was destroyed by God when it didn't follow his diversity, equity and inclusion Commandment. The descendants of the organizations moved into city hall. All is well with the universe.
Pretty close. The Towertown area is now some pricey real estate.