Posts Tagged ‘Spokane’
City Stories – Spokane
For my essay on Spokane as the next underdog city, head over to After It Burns Out.
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Giant machines
Which rest on railroad tracks by S. Washington.
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Good morning, decadence
If you traveled up S. Washington in Spokane this morning you might have seen a bearded man crouched on a corner, eating hipster confectionary in the shadow of a 25-degree day. It’s all good, that was just me. Don’t misunderstand: this was a necessary breakfast for strict medical reasons. A nurse friend told me to quadruple my diet of ibuprofen to combat some nasty muscle spasms that [...]
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I now make hats
They’re pretty sweet.
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A New Revolution?
It’s just a day after online protests have brought down the SOPA internet piracy bill and I’m watching several hundred concert goers raise their fists to Jamaican revolution songs. It’s a baklava layered with syrupy irony. Here we stand inside the Knitting Factory on a snow-dampened night in a poverty-ridden city, a block from where [...]
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cart people
The cart people are loudest in the morning, when the city suffers in pre-dawn silence. The cheap wheels of their contraptions scrape the shoddy sidewalks and clatter through the cracked concrete. The rickety symphony drives insomniacs tossing away in the apartments above the street to make bleak daylight decisions. They’ll spend recklessly, commit fierce adulteries. [...]
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