Handmade sign and adorable toddler: the only promotional devices God intended. And by “God”, I mean my beautiful wife. Who else?
Say what you will about the suburbs (no wait, allow me: they are pretend nowhere towns filled with soulless, greedy honkeys who like to pay a lot for coffee at space/time intervals approximating every third city block), the burbs really can’t be beat for rolling out bang-up quality yard sales. This is owed to the simple fact that these greedy honkeys have a knack for acquiring a lot of shit they have absolutely no use for nor any appreciation of the value of said shit. The suburban yard sale is sort of like a modernization of American Indian potlach in which the wealthiest chiefs demonstrate both their power and benevolence by just giving lot of valuable shit away, only add a cup of Starbucks and minus the underlying mission statement. (more…)
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Yard Sale!
September 4, 2009Handmade sign and adorable toddler: the only promotional devices God intended. And by “God”, I mean my beautiful wife. Who else?
Say what you will about the suburbs (no wait, allow me: they are pretend nowhere towns filled with soulless, greedy honkeys who like to pay a lot for coffee at space/time intervals approximating every third city block), the burbs really can’t be beat for rolling out bang-up quality yard sales. This is owed to the simple fact that these greedy honkeys have a knack for acquiring a lot of shit they have absolutely no use for nor any appreciation of the value of said shit. The suburban yard sale is sort of like a modernization of American Indian potlach in which the wealthiest chiefs demonstrate both their power and benevolence by just giving lot of valuable shit away, only add a cup of Starbucks and minus the underlying mission statement. (more…)
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