{"id":579,"date":"2008-05-04T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T05:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2008-05-05T19:53:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T02:53:20","slug":"a8-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"#a81 :: Stickers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It folds out from a ripstop nylon pouch the size of a cigar case.<\/p>\n

Its fiberglass ribs hold it together in 30 mph winds.<\/p>\n

It’s barely 8 inches long fully assembled.<\/p>\n

It’s a Finger Kite<\/a>!
\n\"ENLARGE\"<\/a>Our endless list of household projects marches forward because of my wife, buy information pills<\/a> the movie producer.<\/p>\n

This week’s tribute to her ambitions is me shoveling out the large storage area in my office – which means going through virtually every bit of hard-copy media I’ve ever owned, sorting, refiling and throwing out crap.<\/p>\n

The room looks like a geek hoard. Every horizontal surface bears a stack of tools, books, CDs, tchotchkes, gizmos, whatses, thingummies and scraps of half-usable art material – any one of which could be EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND PROBABLY SHOULD NOT BE THROWN OUT YET.<\/p>\n

Actually, I’m doing a reasonably good job throwing things out – all in advance of painting said closet space and then replacing the massive, ugly, old four-drawer legal file cabinet with three brand-new (and much smaller) four-drawer legal file cabinets.<\/p>\n

In the midst of all this, I can barely think.<\/p>\n

I keep one mental tunnel open for family obligations, another for work, and the rest of my view is 720-degree, Geof Darrow-grade<\/a> clutter.<\/p>\n

Stacks are piling up atop stacks, and stickers are piling up in one of those stacks.<\/p>\n

Sooner or later, I’ll own a skateboard, guitar case, laptop or vintage American beater with peeling chrome bumpers worth slapping them all over, but until then, they’re just kind of accruing in one corner of my office – an untidy pile of screenprinted adhesive-backed vinyl messages, with no future.<\/p>\n

They’re supposed to be out there signifyin’ for me.<\/p>\n

Instead they’re heaping up slowly, amid the rest of the clutter, in graphic little drifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It folds out from a ripstop nylon pouch the size of a cigar case. Its fiberglass ribs hold it together in 30 mph winds. It’s barely 8 inches long fully assembled. It’s a Finger Kite! Our endless list of household projects marches forward because of my wife, buy information pills the movie producer. This week’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adornment","category-art","category-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}