They Shoot Slackers, Don’t They? – The Atomic TV Classic

Atomic TV Classic racing program

ATOMIC TV CLASSIC
Pimlico Race Course
June 16, 2001

By Tom Warner (Accelerated Decrepitude, 1/4/2011)

I was was doing some winter cleaning last night, realizing — after the Hillendale firemen came to check if I had a gas leak (not to worry! I live to sleep another night without errant carbon monoxide gas getting me) — that my House O’ Hoarding represented a textbook firetrap environment. In the course of my subsequent garbage sweep, I came across a number of beloved items I hadn’t seen in years, including this 2001 horse racing program from my unemployed slacker days as a railbird at Pimlico racetrack — back when my Atomic TV cohort Scott Huffines was also gainfully unemployed.

No kidding – Scott and I really were unemployable bums (see below)…

Scott and Tom, hedging their bets

…though I preferred the term “jobless reprobate” and even printed up my own cards (as shown below) to hand out to potential racetrack contacts and useful touts.

Tom Warner, Jobless Reprobate

Continue reading at “They Shoot Slackers, Don’t They?” at Tom Warner’s Accelerated Decrepitude.

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