Lost County Blog
You find a lot of weird text strewn about the street and airways of any city, especially during an economic problem, when people feel low and don’t feel like picking things up, but rather dropping them on the ground. “Forget it,” seems to be the phrase on the tip of everyone’s tongue. I’ve been collecting weird bits of paper forever, and here I share some of the stuff I found recently— scraps just blowing around the doorstep and public lobby— in no particular order and with no effort to explain or neaten or contextualize any of it any further, because I can’t.
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a. surfboard repair, $10 (10 ct.)
b. book of receipts, $67 (33 ct.)
c. casio new, $88 (88 ct.)
d. lobster restaurant idea, $107 (25 ct.)
e. Dubliners, $32 (10 ct.)
f. Synagogue Seat, $9 (11 ct.)
g. pedicure, $4 (80 ct.)
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Beer 4 dollars
tip 1 dollars
total 5 dollars
times 2 events
10 dollars total
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2002: $0
2003: $0
2004: $0
2005: $0
2006: $0
2007: $5
2008: $0
2009: $7
$12 total
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1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
pizza
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8 waffles
8 pancakes
8 french toast
4 cinnamon toast
16 soda
2 chicken salad
1 book of revelation
3 cigars
1 book of revelation and 3 cigars later i checked my partridge in the oven…it was staring at me as though i’d lost something, so i slammed the door again on its beakless rapidly wrinkling face…
Earth
Wind
Fire
Phil Collins
Fire and Phil Collins go together like potatoes and exhaust pipes, anyway.
Doughnuts and Jobim go pretty well together. Happy birthday Antonio Carlos Jobim! He’d be 83 today.
+ There’s a good Jobim tribute going on at Columbia U.’s KCR here:
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/
Just click on the upper right for a live stream. I think it goes until late in the evening.
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Junior writers $300.
Minor poets–$500. a week.
Broken novelists–$850.-$1000.
One play dramatists–$1500.
Sucks–$2000.–Wits–$2500.
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from working notes, _The Love of the Last Tycoon_, Fitzgerald.