I know how I can steal ideas from America

Jenny Ford from Fort Wayne, Indiana 

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I know how I can steal ideas from America

Grandma would only play cherry slot in Niagara.

Butter lambs with Clove Eyes,

If you let it,

across the American Landscape

Operable Windows,

Hawaiian Standards,

black Men

Please Don't Apply.

so monumental,

yard sales, food, stamps,

privacy for either place,

good bleach,

swimming pools, cut n fill,

fuckn' huge

deep -fried, crunch-wrapped,

bullshit tacos,

clear as mud,

In the jungles of grocery store aisles,

what we grew to know

was separate from what we (did).

She has a devil baby,

before the sun blow up.

floor jacks

When I was a child,

I would skip so fast, so hard

that I could fly, float, hover,

a levitation,

physical, fantastical reality.

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                                                       buy cantaloupe, slightly elliptical, orange flesh, ribbed skin. Continue

Today's word is Dismantle
Today's term is Operable Window
Today's loaded phrase is Across the American Landscape Continue

It never hurts to network.

Hali and I are road tripping to visit grad schools. I thought I'd post our tentative itinerary. The plan is to start this thing on the 3rd of January, and be in each new city the following day. Does anyone have a friend with a free couch and floor who could put us up?



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around the world in ninety days.

as most of you know my au pair experience was quite the bust. so much that after one week of work it could be qualified as my dirtiest job. some would say, i turned lemons into lemonade and decided to take advantage of being in europe (much to my wallet's dismay) and traveled. traveling mostly consisted of bumming off of a few european contacts (thanks casey!) while visiting and revisiting several european cities. i met a lot of crazies, both good and bad. i started a list of everywhere i went and the people i met. all good things must come to an end and as of november 4th i have been stateside. i popped into dc and nyc to visit a few people and postpone home for an additional week and a half. now i am back in good ole sc. it's not terrible, yet. however, i find myself faced with the inevitable what next and it is now time to retackle the portfolio. life suggestions welcome.

here's a little itinterary of the past 3 months (yes i'm counting airports where i had layovers):

greenville

charlotte

new york

stockholm

hannover

hildesheim

haffkrug

lubeck

hildesheim

hannover

mallorca

bilbao

bakio

bilbao

san sebastian

montellano

bilbao

barcelona

paris

dublin

barcelona

london

barcelona

dublin

boston

dc

new york

dc

baltimore

dc

greenville

i'm hoping to make some sort of project or something slightly tangible from this experience. hopefully more to come soon-ish.

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Today's Special Is So America

Home Shopping anchors are sometimes fiercely good at their jobs, usually creepy (see above), and always so America. The Paris Hiltons of daytime tv, some like David Venable achieve viral fame for shear awkwardness. Dylan and I are working on a celebration of this obsession for the b-side of the scrap cover. Scraps for scrap are being pulled from the blog this week! Keep posting or email thestudio@ new material.

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