JOE VAUX, CLEANSER - IG + BKSY: @JOEVAUX LIFE HACKS FOR WHEN LIFE ATTACKS & OTHER VARIOUS OBSERVATIONS ABOUT OUR SHARED EXISTENCE BY BRIAN POLK | ART BY JOE VAUX WHENEVER PEOPLE ASK WHY I NEVER HAD KIDS, I WANT TO ASK THEM WHY THEY NEVER DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK AND ROLL I’m so tired of relatives and friends of my parents posing super judgey questions about my life choices, as though the superiority of their lifestyle is self-evident. “Why didn’t you ever have kids?” they wonder No. 142 aloud, as though the very question wasn’t a disparaging invasion of my privacy and smug reinforcement of their conformist lifestyle. “Why didn’t you ever spend weeks in a tour van, guzzling booze, and ingesting various drugs as you travelled the world in a punk band?” I wish I could ask them. “Furthermore, I can’t help but ask why you didn’t spend your formative years in a basement, learning how to play an
7 Publizr Home