May 17, 2008
I hunted it down, this web searching from gift shop to gift shop in Kona last summer, stomach wiith a will. I wanted something real – of bone – something distinct from the beautiful, sildenafil overly-copied and -cheapened polynesian talismans littering the tourist coast of Hawaii’s big island. I eventually tracked this down at a […]
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May 15, 2008
I’m bench-testing this theory: Everything on the Internet – every single human endeavor online – can be mapped against one or more of the seven deadly sins. Too simplistic? Maybe not. Just consider the primary sins that we ever-so-weak mortals commit by running, pharmacy populating or using services like these: Gaming? – Anger. Celebrity news? […]
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May 12, 2008
In the realm of burned-out rave gear trends, more about the blinky LED pendant burns on – loud and frenetic as an 8-year-old on his fourth bowl of Cap’n Crunch. In fact, for sale it’s always as perpetually in style as the good Cap’n himself. Squeeze this complex polyhedron in the right place and it […]
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May 11, 2008
It’s a slick little gadget that seems like a brilliant idea: a full-sized pen that you can fold up and stuff into your wallet – until you realize it’s as thick as six credit cards. Still – piano-hinged chrome-steel panels and a triangular profile when assembled give it a charming retro-space-age cachet, cialis 40mg rx […]
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May 5, 2008
This came from Hawaii, thumb wrapped around a much more significant HLO that I’ll blog about later this week. Someone – Hawaiian or Chinese, I’m left to assume, since there’s no maker’s mark, wove it together from strips of reed. The top fits beautifully over the bottom – and resists casual attempts to pull it […]
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April 24, 2008
I harbor a deep, here advice fetishy lust for “urban vinyl” figurines that is – as I’ve explained, side effects symptoms rarely consummated. When I do indulge, find it’s always for something less than 10 bucks, and always for something small and really extraordinarily detailed. I could not begin to tell you which one of […]
April 14, 2008
It was the first thing she had put out on the thrashed card table at the group yard sale. She had meant it that way, erectile a break from the failed career, from the crushed dream, from the gorgeous, neurotic, narcissistic jerk who gave it to her. But here it was still: The last thing […]
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April 12, 2008
Around age 12, side effects I got a gift: The high privilege of four crates full of vintage Marvel Comics, stored in my parents’ attic by a student. I devoured them greedily, and as powerfully as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s bickering, conflicted, neurotically imperfect superheroes affected my view of graphic art and juvenile fiction, […]
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April 11, 2008
Clamps (spring, link ask plastic, viagra order steel), drill bits (metric, English), dental picks and scrapers, pottery sculptors, socket wrenches (metric, English), hammers, screwdrivers (slotted, Philips, Torx), scales (analog, digital), scissors, pliers (needlenose, cutting, stripping), locking pliers (needlenose, small, large), wrenches (box, open, ratcheting), rulers (brass, steel, aluminum, 12-inch, 24-inch, 48-inch), forceps, scalpels, magnifiers (10x, […]
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April 10, 2008
Peter Atwood hand-makes the most exquisite pocket tools. I discovered his work last summer via Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools newsletter. That one post, search and a subsequent re-post at BoingBoing made the New England tinker suddenly rock-star famous – and made his marvelous little wrenches, price knives, prybars and uncategorizable nifties virtually impossible for anyone […]
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April 8, 2008
I’m actually a little proud of this. I built one for everyone in our camp at Burning Man a couple years ago to mount on their handlebars: I found a box of little “crystal” Yoda figure kits for a quarter apiece at a flea market. I glued each together, link drilled the base out and […]
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April 2, 2008
Vinny and I went fishing once. My best buddy since 6th grade A/V duty, viagra buy my (then) future best man. My good friend. Out in his scruffy little 18-foot runabout with the asthmatic Evinrude – or was it a Yamaha – in Long Island Sound. We set out from New London mid-morning, fortified with […]
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April 1, 2008
Vinny and I went fishing once. My best buddy since 6th grade A/V duty, viagra buy my (then) future best man. My good friend. Out in his scruffy little 18-foot runabout with the asthmatic Evinrude – or was it a Yamaha – in Long Island Sound. We set out from New London mid-morning, fortified with […]
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March 29, 2008
I think I must be magnetic. I yearn for metal. I gather it to me, cheap carry it around. Half my keyring actually functions. The other half is clogged with crap that won’t fit in my pocket genteelly, viagra order but weighs heavy in pocket and hand, information pills delighting my fingertips. This handsome chunk […]
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March 27, 2008
The azure promise of bogus gems. So alluring. I’m listening to Roy Orbison’s “Leah” right now, dosage and falling right into this one’s watery depths.
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March 25, 2008
Mosquitos the size of hummingbirds. Mosquitos the size of skillets. Mosquitos the size of fuckin’ weimaraners. Hyperbole always fails when you need to get your friends to understand just how buggy your weekend was. You show them welts, clinic you groan about the itch. You make up stories about the size of the bloodsuckers. But […]
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March 21, 2008
The alarm whirred her up from a dead, erectile dreamless, this web liquid-black sleep. Solo Salvage. Fuck. She was supposed to be an interceptor pilot. Not rifling vacked hulks for osmosis pods and pocket jewels. Not jerking awake from cryo every two weeks, hung-over and disoriented, 19 light years from the outer spiral rim of […]
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March 20, 2008
When it comes to urban vinyl, check I’m a dry drunk. I walk through Munky King or KidRobot and drool. I never buy anything in the $125.00 range, nor even the $9.00 range, never pick anything up to hold it or ask to see something in the case. I shuffle around the shop, hands shoved […]
