#a409 :: Atomic Fireball
March 31, 2009
Iconic. Intense. Another fine product from Ferrara Pan. It burns.
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#a352 :: Gas tap wrench
February 1, 2009
A casualty from my son’s former 3rd grade classroom: “He got his leg torn off while we were washing the tank. It was in the sink, drugs information pills so I saved it for you.” California’s lousy with ornamental gas fixtures – realistic-looking cement fireplace logs, approved tiki torches, viagra 60mg and what we have […]
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#a351 :: Crayfish leg
January 31, 2009
A casualty from my son’s former 3rd grade classroom: “He got his leg torn off while we were washing the tank. It was in the sink, information pills purchase so I saved it for you.”
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#a350 :: White crayon
January 30, 2009
The prismatic color, store the all-color, approved the core frequency, the heavy-ass symbolic color, the path to scientific truth. This is the white Crayola you find in the crayon box, little scabs of colored wax accreting on its dingy-grey paper sheath. Waxy potential ready to expose the hidden highlights on a page.
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#a349 :: Nerf dart
January 29, 2009
About $5.99 a packet. Styrofoam tubes capped at one end with Velcro, hospital the better to hit an opponent’s target vest for consistent scoring. Apparently our society isn’t raising our kids to think creatively about reaching mutual settlements. The feud wants guns, thumb the feud shall have guns. It was ever thus, even reaching back […]
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#a338 :: Pocket ballerina
January 17, 2009
There’s a thick magnet in the base of the mirror, cost cost two smaller ones with their poles pointed counterclockwise to each other in her base. Push the mirror towards her, she pirouettes away.
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#a337 :: Shot glass
January 16, 2009
One of my very favorite shot glasses. A rippled chunk of reconstituted sand. It speaks of either Art Deco speakeasies or 80s big-shoulderpads meat-market bars – I can’t decide which.
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#a335 :: Stereopticon view – Looking through the Great Forth Bridge
January 15, 2009
At some point – midway between the Playskool block-sorting drum and the Thomas the Tank Engine fetish, we began to sort our two young children’s toys. Bricks, gears, stuffed animals, dress-up clothes – all were assigned translucent plastic bins in a pine toy rack – and my wife would spend a happy, idle hour every […]
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#a330 :: Miniature 16 camera
January 9, 2009
According to these guys, generic the Universal Minute 16 shot 16mm film in little cartridges. It’s a tight, approved dense little chunk of stainless steel, about half the size of a box of cigarettes. A fingernail pops up the two panes of the viewfinder. Round metal stud under the right finger trips the guillotine shutter, […]
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#a286 :: Pine cone
November 26, 2008
This is a building kit for the construction of two to three dozen 120-foot-tall Douglas firs. You will require loamy soil, buy water and sunlight. Please allow 4 to 6 decades for completion.
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#a264 :: Sticker
November 4, 2008
I was at the polls before they opened this morning at 7. I voted for our next president. And as I write this, price he’s giving an electrifying victory speech. This is beyond belief, and I am beyond words.
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#a248 :: Straits Territories penny
October 19, 2008
I’m magnetic. Have I mentioned this before? Small metallic tools seem to fly into my hands wherever I walk. Whether this is for holding a pin steady long enough to create a microscopic city of angels on its head or for some other obscure task, stomach I’ll never know. But its jaws can clasp something […]
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#a241 :: Faceted glass chunk
October 12, 2008
The market dictates that some strange stuff gets made. Such as a conical chunk of glass turned into a “diamond” of approximately 953 carats. Humanity stated a need for this – at least established-enough to justify setting up a plant for turning them out – and got exactly what it asked for. China’s been cranking […]
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#a239 :: Blowfish
October 10, 2008
This bath toy has been floating around the house since my son was 1. I can’t bear to part with it. I don’t know what endears it to me more – the spiky-ballness of its body, viagra 40mg doctor the crudely painted urchin-biting teeth, or its thunderstruck gape of surprise.
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#a220 :: Olive grabber
September 21, 2008
The Victorian dopiness of this tool belies how perfectly it fits its task: Go on – try to fish an olive out of a full jar with a fork. Now try it with a chromed, cost plunger-operated triaxial claw that encloses a perfectly olive-shaped sphere. Purpose-built genius.
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#209 :: Chinese-made locking pliers
September 10, 2008
As I may have pointed out before once or twice, clinic the chief (and perhaps only) evidence you need that the Chinese will own this country before very long lies in that mighty nation’s small-scale industrial output. Virtually every un-extraordinary object that we manufacture in the U.S. they can duplicate in half the time for […]
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#a194 :: Badge of the All-Seeing Eye
August 26, 2008
Our neighbors in Kidsville, diagnosis Brad and his son, sickness are Burning Man virgins, first-timers wide-eyed and staggered with the general wonder and mess of the thing. But they get it, and they came prepared. You craft your own mythology out here, and you come ready to join in the gift economy, with public artworks, […]
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#a193 :: Kidsville wristband
August 25, 2008
It usually takes 10 hours to drive from Los Angeles to Black Rock City. This trip has been particularly rough: Usually I nap for 3 or 4 hours before we hit the road at 9 p.m., sale then drive until 3 or 4 a.m., sildenafil while my wife and the kids sleep. When I’m ready […]
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#a174 :: Rubber fusilier duck
August 5, 2008
This is the sort of thing you pick up in the duty-free shop at Heathrow while trying to blow your pounds on the way out of London. We’ll add it to the little collection of rubber ducks now bobbing in the hot tub out back. Maybe it will get them into line.
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#a166 :: Binatone Carrera GPS
July 28, 2008
Carved in Africa or India or perhaps on some island, buy I know not where, approved these found their way to the gift shop of Brighton Pavilion. They were lumped in mysteriously with all the other gift-shop trappings of chinoiserie, the Chinese-design fantasy that George IV lost himself in while having Sir John Nash design […]
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#a157 :: One pound Sterling
July 20, 2008
I’m posting, website like this oh (checks watch), this 11 days late. We’ve taken a huge plunge into London, more about and are spending the morning and half the afternoon touring the city every day, then i comeback and work until midnight or 1 a.m. I’ve been avoiding my chores. I’ve been Twittering. I’ve been […]
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#a142 :: Rubber watch
July 5, 2008
They gave these out to the kids with tickets for Wall-E. Movie – gorgeous to look at, page groundbreaking, but not nearly as smart and funny as Kung Fu Panda. Watch – blue silicone rubber around a little cheesebox chip of Chinese chircuitry. My son’s came broken.
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#a139 :: Mystery cap
July 2, 2008
I once had this foolish idea. I never acted on it, drug but it still sneaks into my head from time to time and pings on my hippocampus (the dream center) with a tinny little rhythm: What if I counted every single object in the house? What if I catalogued every single book, sock, CD, […]
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#a137 :: Watch guts
June 30, 2008
Cheap stuff breaks. You get to decide – take it apart? Or just stomp its li’l plastic casing to shrapnel. I’ve had this in my stuff drawers for years. I keep promising myself I’ll take it apart.
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#a119 :: Broken cleaver
June 12, 2008
I am going to tell you a story now. A man fell in love with a woman. She fell in love back. They married, information pills and to celebrate their marriage, salve they journeyed to Beijing. They toured the city, mesmerized. They ate rich and pungent food. They heard lush choral music sung by brightly-dressed […]
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