Pimp Week 3: Iceberg Concluded

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is the final installment of Pimp Week. For this, it’ll be a straightforward post. I’ll be finishing the story I started in these two posts here and here.
When last we saw the pimp Iceberg Slim, he was [...]

Pimp Week 2: Iceberg Slim, Opening Scene Interpreted

This is a follow-up analysis post to this post, which VK, Des and Roissy did a ridiculously good job taking apart in the comments section. Maybe this one was too easy (or the commenters are just too damn good). Anyways, let me see if there’s anything left for me to add. To save you the [...]

Pimp Week 1: Iceberg Slim, Opening Scene

From the opening pages of Pimp by Robert Beck (better known as Iceberg Slim) (slang translations provided by me in brackets):
I grinned widely, inside of course. The best pimps keep a steel lid on their emotions and I was one of the iciest. The whores went into fits of giggles at [bottom bitch] Rachel’s shaky [...]

48 Laws of Pimping

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This week is a busy week at work, plus some personal issues going on, but I’ve been using my free time to brainstorm on Pimp Week. Pimp Week is going to be a week of articles where I take something as reprehensible as the second oldest profession [...]

More On The Power of Vagueness - Dating

I had a post recently called The Power of Vagueness, which you can find here.  In the first post, I focused mostly on vagueness when it came to the political arena and only touched on it slightly in the dating arena.  This time around I’m going to go more into the topic of vagueness in [...]