Shit-kickin' At The Gates of Hell

"And New York- what a dirge New York was. The town was full of solemn, spent, and irritable people shit-kicking their way down the sidewalks. A shit kicker is a guy with a frown on and his eyes on the ground, sloughing forward with his shoes scuffing the pavement like he's kicking horse-shit out of the way saying oh that this should happen to me."

-Excerpt from Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"

Thank you for your accurate articulation, Mr.Wolfe. I've been a shit-kicker myself on the occasional glum day in this crackling miasma of people static that is New York City.