April 30, 2008
What possesses us? We crawl to and fro on a world so vast we can’t understand it, pilule let alone navigate it. We consume, dosage we procreate, ask we fight, we recover. If we’re fortunate, we create something useful – food, tools, homes, art, information. Then, whatever it was that propelled us around all those […]
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April 29, 2008
This threaded, case slotted nugget of galvanized steel is smaller than a pencil eraser. Somewhere in my house, medicine something is slipping because this fell out of it. I won’t know exactly what that is until it falls apart. I’m waiting.
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April 26, 2008
It figures that a freakishly shaped girl doll – one of the greatest, ailment most successful toys of all time – would have such cute props. One day, cheap the endless toy-surf that washes through this house coughed up this itty-bitty soda-fountain treat, doctor and I had to ask my 6-year-old daughter what it was. […]
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April 25, 2008
ENLARGE This is the spiritual brother of this. It floated in off the Sound to the easternmost tip of Long Island, viagra order where I found it on Christmas Eve. A chill 34-degree wind bathed the pebble beach there. We trudged, store two families, online to the farthest reach, where plovers stood pointed upwind. We […]
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April 18, 2008
… that you find under the fridge when you’re moving it. Fridge won’t roll out. It keeps running over something. What the … How did that get there?
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April 17, 2008
Amid the hard-packed, online shit-strewn dirt at one hilly intersection on our way home today, illness this gleamed up at me. Someone lost an ocean liner. You can hold it in your hand: Sleekness, power and gross tonnage expressed in a few grams of blow-molded thermoplastic. Somewhere, either a toddler lost track of a toy […]
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March 23, 2008
He’s a little feller. Inch long, approved tops. Someone took a swipe at his eye and mouth areas with a 2-hair brushful of gold. Came out of an Easter egg that one of us hid in the bushes this morning, until my son found him. And gave him back to me.
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March 12, 2008
This quarter may or may not be involved in a death. This quarter may or may not be worth $2.00. This quarter may or may not be worthless. This quarter was minted in Denver near the end of a 32-year run of silver quarters, information pills and is barely worth the silver it contains …
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March 9, 2008
I found a little knob of dried mud clinging to a rake today while cleaning the garage.I pulled it off and found these two time travelers, abortion forever locked in their coccoons, waiting to be born as wasps. You can see the larvae through the membrane – still as stones and doomed to a future […]
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December 14, 2004
Divans. Bobby sox. Fondue dishes. Poodle skirts. Cocktail shakers. Gingham tablecloths. Highball glasses. Swizzle sticks. Meerschaum pipes. Waffle irons. Ice crushers. Condiment squeeze bottles. Tiki mugs. Doo-wop 45s. Tupperware. Demitasses. Poker chips. Bridge mix. Tulips. Ambrosia. Corn forks. Booze drenches and lubricates human endeavor. We like a good drink with friends. We think about drinking. […]
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November 17, 2004
Iconic, kinetic, and about as simple-minded as a yo-yo, the Wheel-O was your own hand-held Sputnik. The red wheel spins on axle-tips of magnetized metal that cling to the wire frame. Tip the frame back and forth, and it spins faster as it rolls around the frame. Get good enough at it, you can get […]
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November 4, 2004
Iconic, kinetic, and about as simple-minded as a yo-yo, the Wheel-O was your own hand-held Sputnik. The red wheel spins on axle-tips of magnetized metal that cling to the wire frame. Tip the frame back and forth, and it spins faster as it rolls around the frame. Get good enough at it, you can get […]
Filed under: Found Object | Comments Off on #269 :: Tennessee Prison Patch
October 24, 2004
Iconic, kinetic, and about as simple-minded as a yo-yo, the Wheel-O was your own hand-held Sputnik. The red wheel spins on axle-tips of magnetized metal that cling to the wire frame. Tip the frame back and forth, and it spins faster as it rolls around the frame. Get good enough at it, you can get […]
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October 23, 2004
Iconic, kinetic, and about as simple-minded as a yo-yo, the Wheel-O was your own hand-held Sputnik. The red wheel spins on axle-tips of magnetized metal that cling to the wire frame. Tip the frame back and forth, and it spins faster as it rolls around the frame. Get good enough at it, you can get […]
Filed under: Found Object | Comments Off on #257 :: Brass Findings
October 17, 2004
Iconic, kinetic, and about as simple-minded as a yo-yo, the Wheel-O was your own hand-held Sputnik. The red wheel spins on axle-tips of magnetized metal that cling to the wire frame. Tip the frame back and forth, and it spins faster as it rolls around the frame. Get good enough at it, you can get […]
Filed under: Found Object | Comments Off on #252 :: Hydroformed Rock
August 11, 2004
this – an elaborate ice castle lit from within. It glows with a liquid intensity, the frosted bulb cavity diffusing all 25 watts of its little bulb through about two pounds of solid glass. It would make a dandy blunt instrument – coldcock your prey, then fling it to a concrete floor to shatter into […]
Filed under: Found Object | Comments Off on #184 :: Mystery ornament
August 4, 2004
Nothing makes my stomach churn like the anatomy of thermoplastic dolls. Their hair grows in numbered clumps, through symmetrically drilled holes in their plasticene skulls. Paint-irised eyes fringed with nylon fuzz tilt back on tiny weights – very sanpaku – and only little stop-pins keep you from seeing them roll all the way around to […]
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July 21, 2004
You could create an elaborate mythology around it. It’s the latest SoHo club fetish; the gilded relic of an antebellum sharecropping cult; the culmination of a promise made over the last uneaten morsel of food in a lifeboat 3 weeks at sea. But no, it’s just the sort of thing that gets thrown into a […]
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July 18, 2004
A good pen is a transformative tool. If it is heavy and strange enough in your hand, it opens pathways in your writing circuitry where none existed, allowing creative flow from channels hitherto untapped. There is nothing so heavy and strange, nor pleasureable and – for the money – full of cheap thrills – as […]
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