Sinister: So we paid the leccy bill, we got the shopping (and we still had some)

[Lutin]

Hey, Rob !  Your post reads like a funxpedition to the Goodwill As-Is store
on Gov. MacLaughlin's Highway, Portland, Oregon.
Last night I saw an excellent french movie, "Pola X," at the Hollywood
Theatre.
Best movie I've seen for quite awhile.
Good to know there's more B&S appreciation around Bridgetown ... and from
another thrifter thrifting d'occassion !  Thrifting satisfies my archetypal
lust
for La Chasse.


       Lutin

"Les denonciateurs denoncent.
 Les cambrioleurs cambriolent.
Les assasins assassinent.
Les amoureux s'aiment."
Belle & Sebastian - A Bout de Souffle



----- Original Message -----
From: "rob" <cramp at xxx.org>
To: <sinister at missprint.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: Sinister: So we paid the leccy bill, we got the shopping (and we
still had some)


>
> so here i am, roused from the nursery, a little dazed. blink.
>
> i had a bad habit, and it involved leaving my new-ish guitar in the corner
> for weeks at a time. but i snapped it (the habit, thankfully), and
> have since acquainted myself enough with the open chords to squawk out
> TIJAMRS. all this leaves the tips of my fingers feeling like i laid them
> out in front of a freight train.
>
> but rehabilitation was not far off, in the form of the enormous thrift
> store known as The Bins. here the clothes are not on racks, but in
> deep bins, and fingers are free to roam in search of dirty
> treasures. shopping's better when you have to wash your hands
> afterwards. The Bins work like this: employees wheel clothes out, people
> sift through them for a few hours, then the clothes are whisked to the
> back where they are compacted into cubes--six feet by six feet by six
> feet.
>
> rumor is that the clothes are shipped off to Africa, but it's a bit of a
> ways from Portland to there. most of the garments merit immediate
> incineration. but from amongst those i dug:
>
> a spiffy child's tamborine that has feet on it
> a pair of New Balances
> a brown and orange beanie
> a hat that might make me upstanding: labeled "Country Gentleman - Imported
> British Fabrics"
> a leather paper-case (this the man at the cash register checked to make
> sure i was not concealing anything within)
> the cover to the Human League's "Human" 7-inch.
> 7 mismatched Argyle socks ("you don't see those much these
> days" --employee)
> 1 striped sock
> 1 cowboy shirt
> 1 pair, black wrangler jeans
>
> all this i had quite a time stuffing into my bag. outside it was rainy,
> but i got the full fender setup on my bike a few weeks ago, so i put on my
> red blinkie light and headed home. along the way, i passed over a bridge,
> and a hulking freight train was passing underneath, so i rode down and
> watched it trail off. i like to watch the graffiti.
>
> Back on the road, some thug in a sedan nearly hit me, and i tried my
> damnedest to chase him down, to pound on the trunk, but the louse ran the
> stop sign and sped off.
>
> sighs and soap,
>
>  rob
>
>
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