on the way over to this computer lab today, tossed or fallen off a curb at an intersection, a black & white photocopied Missing Dog flyer for a French bull dog.
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Mon, May 24, 2004 - 1:16 PMI am pretty much incapable of picking up notes, flyers, and letters off the ground and reading them. If you're in my company when it happens, I'll often be heard to whisper "secrets!" under my breath. I love notes from one person to another that make no sense out of context. -
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Wed, May 26, 2004 - 4:35 PMAbove I meant to say that I am incaplable of NOT picking up discarded notes.
just trying to avoid confusion.
you know... for all you people who take my obsessions dead seriously.....
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Fri, May 28, 2004 - 11:47 AMyesterday, near some planted flowers, a lunch-size brown paper bag with a bearded face drawn on it with a black felt pen & holes cut out for the eyes to make a mask. -
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Thu, June 3, 2004 - 1:19 PM2 days ago in the hallway of a giftshop, a restaurant check with this written on it: "YARD SALE TODAY! 425 Bath St. really cute clothes for almost nothing! goes until 5pm." on top of that, pre-printed, "THANK YOU", & at the bottom, likewise pre-printed, JOIN US AGAIN SOON... the whole effect is visually ver striking. -
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Sat, June 19, 2004 - 11:52 PMMy husband and I were walking home, and he spotted an empty toy package for a figure that LOOKS exactly like spiderman, but the toy was called SPADER MAN! What a hilarious find! -
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Wed, June 23, 2004 - 3:24 PMa secondhand store in my town (Santa Barbara) often has free stuff that they couldn't sell stacked on the sidewalk outside the back door of the place. today i found there a copy of The Elements of Style by William Strunk & E.B. White. it's a book about writing. -
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Mon, June 28, 2004 - 8:37 AMStrunk & White made me homeless.
Over the weekend i found a Garbage Pail Kids "Spanked Hank" card with a ?poem? written in some damn tiny letters on the back:
You will spank the fat of Hank
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Tue, June 29, 2004 - 12:05 AMStrunk & White? This past weekend I went through a bag that someone put by the dumpster at my apartments, and there was a hardcover, large-print thesaurus! But it was a hideous pink color so I didn't take it. It was kind of creepy looking. But- what's going on here? Folks seem to be giving up on the English language lately. They're discarding all their reference material!
Here's what I've really been wanting to write about, though- a recent find has put me in a moral dilemma. Maybe my fellow Finders and Scavengers can share some opinions on this. Two weeks ago I found a $100 dollar bill in the lint catcher of a dryer in one of the laundry rooms at my apartment complex. No kidding- I really did. Since then I've mentioned it to four neighbors, and the apartment manager (although I did not reveal the exact denomination of the bill- I just said "some money")hoping (although, actually,to be honest, hoping not)to find the true owner of the cash.
I'm curious, I want to read some opinions- how much effort should one put in trying to find the owner of something valuble that is obviously not a discard, but lost? I am using this bill as a bookmark until the owner is revealed, or until I feel morally confident that I can spend it. (Which I hope happens by next week because I'm going on vacation!)
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Tue, June 29, 2004 - 10:27 AMwere any identifying or distinguishing marks left on the bill? if not...i say it's yours. if it does have distingushing marks, put up a flyer in your apartment complex with your name & phone number telling people that whoever can correctly describe the markings gets the money. -
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Tue, June 29, 2004 - 7:11 PMNo, there are no marks of any kind. But then remember- it's been through a washer and dryer!
So far as the flyer is concerned... that's all I need- a flyer with my phone number on it saying there's a $100 bill up for grabs! I think I might get some interesting calls. It's a moot point,though, since the bill is clean. -
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Tue, June 29, 2004 - 7:44 PMI like this: "...what's going on here? Folks seem to be giving up on the English language lately. They're discarding all their reference material!" vry funny. and inspiring, actually; what it is, is that people are creating their own rules, maybe, and on that note, [inspiration = ] NOW i finally know where it was i was going with my newrule tribe, which in a few daze [yes] will be open so stay tuned.
As for the bill, well, hell, do you need it? i mean, if you need it. Maybe it was a synchronicity. which, yeah, you could call a justification rationalization kind of thing. if it was me today i would think so; if it was me at some other time i might not and then i would give it some other handling. what goes around comes around and all that. You know, if you worked in a drycleaner's in the south you wouldn't think twice; amazing what gets left in pockets and the workers aren't exactly overcompensated for their work.
On found notes: a while back a friend of mine had a book come out in which all the stories were based upon the notes he found, some almost entirely notes altogether, spliced in; i will have to now that I remembered this sleuth this out. remember hearing him read part of one, very good, there was a couple who went from where they worked to one or the other's house for lunch and then one of them responded, "Yahtze!" several times in this conversation they were having that I think was sexual innuendo or metaphorical like that somehow. Does this sound familiar to anyone, possibly? (the sleuthing starting now.) -
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Wed, June 30, 2004 - 12:01 AMYahtze! This is a childhood memory of mine- my parents used to play a game called Yahtze. It was, I think, a board game (commercially available) involving dice and maybe cards, and the word "Yahtze!" was called out when one player had scored a point and somehow gained the advantage over the other(s). We could look it up on Google, but I think that's it- it's a game.
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Fri, July 2, 2004 - 2:33 PMon the sidewalk in back of the store mentioned in my previous post, today i found 6 books:
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Golden Helix by Theodor Sturgeon
Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
The Politics by Aristotle
The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, vol. 1
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Thu, December 2, 2004 - 8:15 PMYep, there's a cup and five dice...you have to roll and try and get a full house, three of the same, large straight, small straight, etc. I'm embarrassed to admit that I have the electronic version! Yahtzee!
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Wed, February 23, 2005 - 1:40 PMYatzee is a game done with dice. It's still on the market and at work sometimes when it's really slow, we'll get it out and play it to relieve tension amoung the ranks.
one of the most recent interesting finds I"ve been TOLD of was a couple of metal detector fiends unearthed a pair of gold "posey rings" in England. THAT would be an amazing find!
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Sun, July 4, 2004 - 9:24 PMI found a cherry Italian suit chair. Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!
$5 at a yard sale and later that day we found a laptop in the garbage which my computer idiot savant boyfriend already has up and running!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mon, July 5, 2004 - 1:25 PMover the weekend i encountered a guy who put a found discard to interesting use: he had a length of yellow caution tape tied around his hat to serve as its band. -
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Sun, July 11, 2004 - 4:39 PMtoday i found a colorfull felt pen drawing tacked to a public bulletin board. it is in the style of urban graffiti art, & consists of the name Ushen(?) done in a highly stylized, almost illegible script, along with other things. -
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Tue, July 20, 2004 - 1:58 PM2 items found in close proximity to eachother on the sidewalk in back of the previously mentioned secondhand store: a copy of the book of the screenplay of the movie My Dinner With Andre by Andre Gregory & Wallace Shawn (YAY! 1 of my favorite movies!) & a handwritten single page letter written in thin black felt tip on white graph paper from someone named Paco to someone named Gary. -
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Wed, July 28, 2004 - 11:51 AMyesterday i had a FINE scavenging day! again in back of the secondhand store, i found the entire Fall of the Towers trilogy by Samuel Delany, & the entire Null-A trilogy by A.E. Van Vogt (science fiction novels). YIPPIE!! -
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Fri, July 30, 2004 - 1:30 PMfound napkin on sidewalk with colorfull floral print...promising collage material. -
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Wed, August 18, 2004 - 11:33 AMon sidewalk yesterday, a heavy-stalk white piece of paper one side of which has a reproduction of a pencil drawing of a fantastic hand (crying eye in the palm, thumb turning into a rolled-up rug, drawer opening out of the area just below the palm, pendant with geometric design & feathers dangling from index finger, middle finger dividing into segments, pinky a mere stump) and on the other side, drawn in black felt pen, a simple cartoon face, the words PEACE LOVE EMPATHY, a heart, something illegible, & an illegible signature. -
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Mon, August 30, 2004 - 1:15 PMyesterday on sidewalk back of aforementioned secondhand store ( which is called Random) an edition of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio illustrated by Rockwell Kent! YIPPIE! also in that same assortment of discarded stuff, a couple greeting cards for someone named Lydia from the same group of sisters.
today on the sink in a public bathroom, a thin, postcard-size wooden board with "RAISE BOYS & GIRLS THE SAME WAY" printed on 1 side in red. i might actually mail that as a postcard to someone. -
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Mon, August 30, 2004 - 4:15 PMtoday i found a torn out coloring book page of Elroy, from the Jetsons, which was colored with yellow face, green body, brown hair [er, stroked across 5 times to lay down the color in each section].
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Tue, August 31, 2004 - 11:00 AMtoday abandoned atop a piano in a coffeehouse, the book Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. it's about the history of the zero concept in mathematics. -
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Wed, September 1, 2004 - 7:02 AMi found a first edition of a comic book of "Clerks"...
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Mon, November 8, 2004 - 4:23 PMWhenever I see one of those I always post:
Could you please return my monkey?
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Tue, September 7, 2004 - 11:56 PMHere's a sad one:
An elderly neighbor of mine passed away recently, and over this past weekend someone was cleaning out her apartment. I was casually perusing the contents of our dumpster and noticed they had thrown away her walker.
You know someone is really dead when their walker gets thrown in the trash.
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Wed, September 8, 2004 - 7:46 AMsheesh, anyone heard of recycling? that walker could be used by someone who needs [and can't afford] a walker. -
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Wed, September 8, 2004 - 12:36 PMnot to mention the appliances.
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Sun, November 7, 2004 - 2:28 PMa ticket stub with 40359 printed in bold red on orange. -
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Sun, November 7, 2004 - 3:40 PMAn index card with:
"Sin here please"
written on it, with an arrow pointing downward
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Mon, November 8, 2004 - 1:21 AMIt's about time somebody found somethin'! That was a long, month-long drought.
Last weekend my car was in the shop and getting it back required a 7 mile hike. I thought for sure I'd find something interesting during a 7 mile hike through San Diego- but, no. -
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Mon, November 8, 2004 - 12:41 PMwow, 7 miles of nothing? i usually can't get across the street to the grocery without picking something up... -
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Mon, November 8, 2004 - 11:59 PM"wow, 7 miles of nothing?"
Well.. OK, at one point I picked up a pen, but I put it back because it was out of ink. Later, I picked up a branch and carried it for awhile because I thought I'd be able to make a pen out of it (see my post on the "Are you currently making anything out of found discards?" thread), but then I decided the angle of the crook on the end was too severe and I left it on the ground.
Finally I found a metal sign- "Donna Frye for Mayor" that someone- a Donna Frye opponent probably- had pulled up out of the ground and laid face down. I am a Donna Frye supporter so I set the sign back up. Donna was a write in candidate, and she may have won, but they're actually still counting the votes a week after the election. As of this morning she was still 1% ahead of the incumbent mayor.
So, no, it wasn't 7 miles of nothing actually, but I didn't find anything I wanted to take home with me.
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Mon, November 8, 2004 - 4:24 PMBad bad bad Karma!
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Mon, November 8, 2004 - 4:25 PMIn the parking lot I found a black plastic chess piece... the king. All by his lonsome. -
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Mon, November 15, 2004 - 9:31 AMI live in the Uber-Suburb known as Long Island, NY. I have never seen such amazingly useful trash! These people throw out entire rooms full of furniture sometimes.
Half of my kid's outside toys (and some of his insided toys) are scavenged from the neighborhood trash: his swing, two big cars, a plastic picnic table, a 4-ft. tall kitchen playset, etc. We just take the stuff from the wasteful people's trash, strap it to the roof and hose it down when we get home. Good as new!
And then, if that weren't enough, my neighbors like to tempt me... They leave television sets lying right there on the side of the road. I saw no less than FOUR of them on the way home from work the other day. It was all I could do to leave them where I found them...
I don't care if they work or not, I want to take every last TV home with me and make crazy sculptures with them. If I did that, though, the back porch would be filled with busted-ass TVs and my Father-In-Law would have a spastic fit.
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Mon, November 15, 2004 - 9:40 AM...strap it to the roof and...
the roof of the car, of course.
we don't have a bunch of discarded trash lashed to the roof of our house... though that might be kinda fun to do, my Father-In-Law would most likely explode...
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention my wife's desk chair. It's awesome! It's very comfy and made from real dead trees and orange upholstery. It's not plastic or from Ikea like everything else we own. However, it was "trash" at one time. I'd have to say it's the single greatest piece of trash we own!
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Mon, November 15, 2004 - 11:02 AMChuk, do you know Nam June Paik's work? is your work involving TV sets anything like his? ( that's to say, does any of your assemblage art incorporate video?) -
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Wed, December 1, 2004 - 4:46 PMhmm...don't know if any answer is forthcoming....anyway...moving right along...i recently found 5 abandoned books in the usual place:
Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
The Child's Conception of Time by Jean Piaget
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
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Wed, December 1, 2004 - 7:50 PMSome excellent finds... coincidently, just today on my job (warehouse of a University bookstore) I was preparing a carton of USED copies of the McLuhan book for sale to students- the copy you found is probably in better shape than some of the ones we sell!
Years ago an elderly former co-worker at an earlier job named Ed Kaplan gave me a copy of the Bateson book, swearing that it was just the stuff I needed. He died about a month after he gave me the book! I still have the book, but I've never read it. Holden, if you read it you've got to share your impressions of it with me- maybe I can at least get the knowledge Ed was trying to impart to me 2nd hand.
One of the main things I remember about Ed is that he would always call me a "mensch". I had never met anyone who used the word before, and have never met anyone since.
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Wed, December 1, 2004 - 9:22 PMa globe on a stick, across the street from my house.
i posted that somewhere else here, but i still find it miraculous.
i posted it here in response to:
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Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
The Child's Conception of Time by Jean Piaget
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson
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i just love that "the mothman prophecies" are on this list. i have, or have had, either all or almost all of these books-- somehow "mothman"--- oh, it isnt that it doesnt fit, but it is nearly that.
perhaps the others were for school & that for recreation.
paul goodman, if i remember (via reading) correctly, was once also for recreation. marshall mcluhan -- buckminster fuller -- my father was once extraordinarily proud of having an early copy of "9 chains to the moon." impossible though he was i did not have the heart to tell him it probably wasnt worth much w/o a cover. now i have all of the bfuller books.
once, driving thru arizona, my partner & i saw a geodesic dome on a stick. it was in the middle of nowhere & it was for sale. further down the highway there was a large pickup truck on a stick, kind of in mockery of effigy.
none of that has anything to do w/ the rest of this. only philosophically.
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