April 2013
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January 2013
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Chris Owens, I said.
I bummed a cigarette off Chris Owens. I recognized his laugh first from across the bar like a squeaky wheel. Looked up and saw him with a yellow bandana around his wrist, like he did when we were sixteen: Summer and the sound of a shitty boombox blasting Black Flag across water. I dropped the case of Narragansetts next to the cooler. Tired. Been working. But the night’s almost over. ‘Chris Owens,’...
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December 2012
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September 2012
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Instructions For Road Trip
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR ROAD TRIP
1) Vague plan
2) Old car
3) Luggage
4) Friendships [in various states of disrepair]
5) Tape deck adapter
6) Wrong turn
7) Small town
7) Motel
8) Cheap beer
9) Strangers
10) The Argument
11) The Disappearance
12) The Search
13) The Reconciliation
14) Highways
15) “Road dogs”
16) The ocean at night
17) Arrival at destination.
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August 2012
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July 2012
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Set It Off
June 2012
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May 2012
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jackspadeny:
RIP David Weiss, one half of Fischli/Weiss, the duo that created the amazing film “The Way Things Go.”
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April 2012
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March 2012
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http://jackspadeny.tumblr.com/post/19967306698/tren... →
An elegy to NYC’s shady trenchcoat salesmen.
jackspadeny:
Once upon a time, in a New York City not so dissimilar to this one, there was a special breed of shady character.
He wore a trenchcoat, and it was lined with everything from counterfeit watches to cigarettes without tax stamps. Whenever he wanted to open up shop, he just flashed the…
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Phillipe Petit
jackspadeny:
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit stepped out onto a tightrope stretched out between the New York’s Twin Towers, over 1,000 feet in the air. He spent the next hour performing high above the city, before being placed under arrest by the NYPD. Philip Petit is one of today’s presenters at the 2012 TED Conference.
