If I were writing a slasher flick, I would have a minor character from New York complaining about how you can't get a decent slice outside the city
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Keith Plocek
@kplo
Reading and writing about culture, travel and surfing. Coding interactive websites. Launching cameras into near space. teacher. Huckleberry.
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The best way to put back on a duvet cover is to wear it like you’re pretending to be a ghost, right?
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working with at was such a joy and delight. he was an incredible professor, editor, and mentor—we were so fortunate to have his support and guidance.❤️
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Shout out to , who encouraged me to explore the historiography of measurement for his USC seminar on the long nineteenth century. Who knew metersticks could be so interesting?!? (He did.)
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I wrote about St. Thomas and the price of bread in feudal Europe for
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I accidentally left my car door unlocked and looks like all that got stolen was a handful of change…and a stack of stickers?!?
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When the used book has aggressive underlining and notes in the first few pages but nothing afterwards. All right, buddy. Pace yourself next time.
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I think one of my favorite parts about baseball is how you boo the opposing pitcher for having the nerve to try and pick off your guy at first base
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“In theory, every object has a story, but there’s something about couches,” said #ASCJ Prof Keith Plocek in an article. , through his social handles, has been one of many documenting the kind of life the furniture might have led.
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"We curate our free library. We can’t just keep everything people toss inside the box. We don’t need your catalogs or user manuals. We don’t need your stacks of magazines either. No, not even the New Yorker. Nobody takes them. Put them somewhere else."
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Them, so foolish: Quote-tweeting and dunking on the tweet and amplifying the original message nevertheless
You, so wise: Screen-capping and dunking on the tweet and amplifying the original message ever so slightly less
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The biggest question in the history of philosophy — why? — was answered resolutely in 1991
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The simulacrum is more real than the suitcase in my hand
I said the simulacrum is more real than the suitcase in my hand
Now that my baby left me
I’m moving to Main Street Disneyland
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