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’wichcraft delivery

It was fun making the map, but I thought there was no way I was getting a reply to my email. So this was a pleasant surprise.

Finn	Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:26 PM
To: info@wichcraftnyc.com
Hi, We like your sandwiches and wished you delivered to our offices. From the map I've made of your delivery areas you can see that you come tantalizingly close. Maybe you should extend one of your delivery areas a little bit? The map: http://tinyurl.com/33fypb -F

 

GuestService@wichcraftnyc.com <GuestService@wichcraftnyc.com>	Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 4:27 PM
To: Finn Smith <finn@timeghost.net>
Finn, Thank you for your email, and thank you for being a fan! Our Flatiron (Union Square) store will deliver to you without a fee. We have recently updated our delivery ranges, and our website will soon reflect these changes. In the meantime, we will be happy to route deliveries to you through the Union Square location at no additional fee. I am sure the amount of time you put into the excellent map you made far exceeds the time it takes us to travel the extra two blocks to get to you! If you have any questions, or if there is anything else I can do for you, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you again. Regards, Matthew Gaines Guest Relations

 

 

QotD: That's Just Cruel

What's the weirdest baby name you've ever heard (or considered)?

THUGLIFE

Misdirected Mail

After examining this I decided it was a legitimate email sent to the wrong address, not some novel new kind of spam. It's kind of like getting email from a character in a Raymond Carver story. Alternatively, a friend thought it was like the beginning of an S. E. Hinton YA novel.

From: Rodney
To: colleen
Subject: hello
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:57:55 -0500

I just about came and seen you my buddy and I were crusing the country side no place really in mind,if I would of had your # I would have it would be nice to see you again and your kids,me I'm back at the mine been sober just about a year,dose that suprise you!!!!!!!ya for how good of frends we were we never see each other it's not that far..I still remember you me barb and dayrl rideing motor bikes all over I think we picked you up by the pen...Do you think those were the best times or nowI sure wouldn't have done anything different,I just hope my kids don't drink and drive or ride with people who do,our perents must have been worried sick my kids arn't going to get away with that I hope!  PS cheese cake for breakfast cooleen!!!!your bud Rod

 

Advice

“Nobody's brought off the Eastern novel recently, my view, Greene managed it, if you can take Greene, which I can’t—too much popery. Malraux, if you like philosophy, which I don't. Maugham you can have, and before that it's back to Conrad. Cheers. Mind me saying something? Go easy on the Hemingway stuff. All that grace under pressure, love with your balls shot off. They don't like it, my view. It's been said.”

from The Honourable Schoolboy

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The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment

Graham Greene

I borrowed this book a year or more ago (with a different cover, seen here), got halfway through, abandoned it, was spurred to start from the beginning again by the BAM series on Graham Greene noir, got within ten pages of the end, lost the book, bought this newer edition so I could return it and finally finished it. Just in time to watch the Fritz Lang adapation tonight.

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If you watched the Star Wars: Episode I trailer too many times to count and you were a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion you might find this trailer as entertaining as I did. (I know, I know, this is pretty much the nerdiest thing evar.)

 

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Show us your eyeball.
Submitted by Cassie.

eye closeup

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Master P Platinum Bar-B-Que

If challenged on a piece of hip hop trivia and you are wrong, you are required to buy the challenger the Rap Snack of their choosing (warning: the Rap Snacks site has sound).

 

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We must move together

It's a good thing the US has these old Marshall Plan posters ready to repurpose for the "massive effort to slow the pace of global climatic disruption before intolerable consequences become inevitable." In other news, Bruce Sterling recently declared victory for the Viridan Design Movement.

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De Niro's entrance in Mean Streets

De Niro's slow motion entrance as Johnny Boy in Mean Streets, set to Jumpin' Jack Flash.

No John Ford references, but with De Niro, the Stones, and a slow motion tracking shot, there are plenty of Scorsese signifiers in less than a minute of screen time.