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Fleeting

In a move to obliterate ubiquitous graffiti, tag and stencil art, cities like Toronto, Portland, and Vancouver have taken steps to obliterate these urban hieroglyphics with overpainting. Rarely is the paint a match for the building itself, nor are subsequent coats a match for prior ones.

It is during these fleeting moments between successive applications that I have endeavored to find abstract compositions. While these property owners have at least momentarily obliterated one form of urban art, they have unintentionally created another.

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Test Post

Rather than shopping or a pottery workshop, blogging shows promise as a fun, “couple-y” activity. THE GOLEM writes the entry that took a thousand years.

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Padgett Powell's bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory--that's right, questions.

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