Larry //
This guy needs to be on TV a LOT more. Props to Cooper for pointing out that he is, in fact, one of the "fringe" elements in his own movment. The about-face that follows is almost surreal.
Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60.
The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife.
As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Carroll led a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs and poetry. This highly unusual combination lent a lurid appeal to “The Basketball Diaries,” the journal he kept during high school and published in 1978, by which time his poetry had already won him a cult reputation as the new Bob Dylan.
The Basketball Diaries was the first book that made me want to write. Rest in peace.
Read other parts of our "Weird Signs Series", all 12 of them! We'll start with a truly wonderful vintage sign (for those who hadn't hear about electricity yet - back when men were men and most had matches.)
(image via, Marcin Whinchary)Warning Signs. You've been Warned.
(sent in by Robert A. Graf, Springwater, NY)Too late now:
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(images via 1, 2)The sign on the right is all about hydrogen sulphide, a naturally occurring gas often found in manure pits and sewers. All who brave these noxious areas are exposed to the deadly danger. Hydrogen sulphide is heavier than air and collects in depressions or tunnels. It induces a sudden coma after which, as they say, "Death can be immediate"! One more reason to never enter such places… ever.
(image via ToyZone)Some sensible warnings...
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(image via)... and some non-sensible ones:
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This is a tiny fraction of the signs from the original post. Go see.
Watch both, and decide for yourself which one is taking advantage of a captive audience to plug his own policies:
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Two very different approaches, both with their own charms…
New school: The Libraria da Vila bookstore in Sao Paulo. [via KV]
Old school: Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice. [thx JL]
The second store is much more my kind of place. In fact the the first type I avoid whenever possible.
