both of these via matchbook
(boy, it really is a field guide to a charmed life)
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iceland
(more in living)
v. Krisatomic
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Walter said upon seeing this, “It looks like I am trying to hold myself together
v. John Gossage, v. This Long Century
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Pick-Me-Ups can come in strange forms.
If you're looking forward to warm weather, sometimes seeing pictures of people wearing warm-weather clothing feels good. Or maybe if you're feeling particularly nasty-looking and dumpy, it can cheer you to see that your personal style -- which is normally quite thrown-together and not widely considered to be stylish -- is suddenly taking the limelight, suddenly considered fashionable, thereby leaving you feeling pretty "with it" and well put-together.
Or maybe you'll feel better when looking at incredibly expensive designer clothing and realizing that a lot of it could be recreated -or at best, imitated by the great stuff you'll find at the Salvation Army.
(Not to say these outfits aren't special are anything, Steven Alan)
from the steven alan lookbook
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I was in downtown Massillon shooting for a photography class when this kid asked me if I wanted to see a picture. I said yes, and he retrieved a creased “beaver shot” from his back pocket. The boy in the photograph must be nearly middle-aged by now. I wonder what has become of him, and I invent possibilities: he watches Fox News and disdains the “brown menace” of California, a place he barely knows; he sucks off married men he meets online and drinks at the area’s only gay bar, once called Booby’s Why Not Club, now surely called something else; he got the hell out of town, landed in the Inland Empire or the Metroplex, and searched in vain for decent work; he went to an Ivy League school, then worked as a producer in the adult video industry before it all went bust. In pursuit of the American Dream, he may have done all of the above, though not necessarily in the order listed.
photo and blurb by William E. Jones, filmmaker, via This Long Century (if you don't know about this blog, you should. I'll write more on it later.)
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