Archive for the ‘artifacts’ Category
found while cleaning out my closet
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A Polaroid of my mom and me outside our house in St. Louis
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Mystery ring – no one knows where this came from. Let me know if it’s yours!
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Postcard of the royal family. In days of fuller hair
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Note to a college roommate about why I didn’t switch our parking passes in the PM. We lived close to the woods – perfect hiding place for snipers.
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Paper bag masks created at the High Museum in Atlanta. The mask that likes “Boys under the age of 6″ and “Dry grass” belongs, unsurprisingly, to a certain Creepy Animal.
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A sheer red polyester tunic with a rhinestone collar. Which I am totally keeping.
stumpping
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Back in wild wild old-time California, folks used redwood stumps as dance floors. 30 people dancing on a stump! BAD. But also a wee bit rad.
mesopotamia
the only thing I want on eBay right now
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A relic from a time, way back in the day, when America used to get. shit. done.
Behold Astro snoopy. Circa 1969. Sometimes these things go for over $100 on leBay. Sometimes you can get them for $30 or so. The one I’m watching currently stands at $14.95 with 5 days left.
cactus skeleton
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This is what the inside of a cactus looks like. I picked it up on a hike in Palm Springs, where you can find incredible looking things walking around in the desert. It’s wacky out there and really beautiful. I find hiking sort of boring but I could’ve spent days poking around in the dust taking pictures of weird-looking sticks and stones.
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feral houses.
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I’m spending all my free time today trying to finish On the Road. I didn’t like it very much in high school, but I’m enjoying it now. Why? Because, now I am a beatnik.
If you were on the road in America these days, you’d drive by a fair share of abandoned or foreclosed homes. The Detroit houses pictured above are from the blog Sweet Juniper. You can see more of them there.
now I lay me down to sleep
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flags – the book
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ebay puchase #32
purchase price: $2.99
additional comments: way cool.
