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In fact, whenever [Doug Rose] explains his newest altruistic effort, it's like listening to George Carlin channel Baba Ram Dass. "The idea of this project is to increase the number of 'wisdom professionals' on the planet, because we're all a bunch of dumb motherfuckers," he says. "Nothing personal against you - some of my best friends are humans. But I wouldn't want my daughter to marry one."
In a chapter entitled, "The Distance Between Bullshit and Me," Rose writes: "Most folks are great - but chances are you're going to meet, at the very least, a dozen or so during your lifetime who will make you wonder if God had a sharp stick up his ass during creation." In another, he asks, "Why do dickheads who support bombing villages full of innocent goat-herding/rice-growing civilians - many of whom couldn't find America on a map and wouldn't give a shit to do so if they could - think that they have the moral authority to tell me to not smoke a joint? Kiss my ass."If anything, Fearless Puppy is a cautionary tale that begins with his troubled upbringing in an uptight, working-class, '50s household a stone's throw from Coney Island. Rose's father was an electrical inspector for the City of New York, his mother a schoolteacher with a penchant for popping prescription pills. "She'd hold it all together real well in the classroom," Rose recalls. "Then she'd come home and beat the shit out of us and stomp on us with high-heeled shoes."See the full content of this document
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Dogged Pursuits
Dogged Pursuits A homeless Vermonter pens an autobiography to fund a Buddhist temple in Asia Fearless Puppy on American Road by Doug "Ten" Rose. Self-published, 424 pages. $23.
Doug Rose has logged more than a quartermillion miles on America's highways, yet he's never driven a car. The Brooklyn native has worked countless jobs in more than a dozen states, but he hasn't had a permanent address since 1972. Rose has raised tens of thousands of dollars on behalf of orp...See the full content of this document
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