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obscure; opaque.
asphalt, hardware stores, index rerum,
putterings, telegraphic codes, a something of's.
under/non achiever.
a mess of human error come home to rust.
https://jmcvey.net
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or, the Assault sub.
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
and (belatedly) E pluribus unum also comes to mind.
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
guessing they know something you don't... very nice, caught this at random :)
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
good title.
October 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
can't help but recall the outrage at Rachel Cusk's very thoughtful A Life's Work, On Becoming a Mother (2001).
September 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
clicked out of curiosity about their stated rationale :
“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement.
that’s it? that’s the reason? pretty thin.
August 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
it works :) and thank you so much. ferreteria... 7th and Union Hardware recalls long-gone Union Wholesale Hardware... my father was a salesman for a while... www.flickr.com/photos/asfal...
thank you so much !
will consider subscribing, though I live 3,000 miles away from hometown Eagle Rock !
Union Hardware & Metals Co. / Sales Personnel / Dec. 31 - 1952
Victor McVey, third row (from front), fourth from right. A story — including war stories — in each of these faces; some more comfortable with their lot than others…
www.flickr.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
p.p.s., alas, onerous loops to actually see the article, so I bailed.
August 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
p.s., I don't know the owner's politics, and don't care. it's a good store, they know stuff, and respect their customers.
Home Depot half a mile away, still the customers come.
August 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
consider the two hardware stores, different politics, portrayed in Richard Marius, his two novels An Affair of Honor and After the War
(Knopf, 2001 and 1992, respectively), described in my list of hardware stores in fiction : jmcvey.net/hdwe/fiction...
hardware store literature / fiction
Women either own or work in not a few of the hardware stores found in this fiction.
jmcvey.net
August 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
big fan of Coolidge Hardware, within walking distance (while I'm still ambulatory) in Watertown Mass. coolidgehardware.com
Coolidge Hardware! in Watertown, MA | Benjamin Moore Retailer
coolidgehardware.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
ten Hail Mary's, and one Our Father...
August 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
wondering too if the Coast Guard's budget priorities have shifted to a narrower ICE-bound idea of "homeland security." buoys have no place in that picture.
August 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
the rationale for doing away with those buoys seemed so thin, threadbare.
August 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
absolutement !
August 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
wondered if John Stilgoe, his Alongshore (1994) or maybe something else, would be mentioned in that article, but no.
hated the Coast Guard's dismissal of the buoys as "aesthetic," nostalgic... expensive to maintain... but what do I know.
August 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM