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"the past is never dead. it's not even past." – william faulkner

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My cats ~ strawberrycats

My dolls ~ porcelain-roses

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whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of god he made man. - genesis 9:6 ♡

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Hundreds of German Protestants attended a church service in Bavaria that was generated almost entirely by artificial intelligence. The servi

This one feels so personal to me.

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Shanty Bay Go-Karts

You can find the video here!!

https://youtu.be/zcoU5sy2eCA

In this post we get to see what the gas station convenience store looked like!!

This building was once home to a number of businesses. Being located along a major highway, I would have imagined it was once a very busy place.  After having talked to a few former employees, they confirmed that those businesses were indeed busy, so the question remains…why did they all close?

In last week’s episode we explored the abandoned Coffee Time Restaurant.  In today’s video we will be exploring the rest of the building, including a former McDonald’s, a Shell gas station convenience store, a party room and the go kart track and mini putt.

Looking through street imagery, I could see that the building was not very well maintained as far back as 2012 and as time went on, it just got worse and worse with holes beginning to appear in the roof.  Coffee Time was the first to go in 2009.  The McDonald’s closed in late 2015 and around the same time an “under new management” sign appeared in the gas station window. That didn’t seem to help matters since the Shell station and store would later close in 2018. Finally in 2019 the go-kart track and party room would close as well.  There was also a mini putt but that looks to have been closed for far longer.

I suspect there were a number of reasons it failed.  It is located along a divided highway with good visibility but was only easily accessible by the southbound traffic.  There is also a sizeable city located not more than 10 minutes down the road with far more options.  Last, the owners tried to lease the empty spaces where the coffee shop and restaurant used to be but were unsuccessful.  With those two food options gone, the location was no longer a one stop shop.

Since then the building has deteriorated even further, the roof has developed more holes and the vandals have taken over.  In the spring of 2022 the entire building now sits boarded up and likely awaiting the wrecking ball before the property is redeveloped.

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By the time I was forty, the rigidity of my footbinding had moved from my golden lilies to my heart, which held on to injustices and grievances so strongly that I could no longer forgive those I loved and who loved me.

Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“‘I am very sorry to hear, Miss Fairfax, of your being out this morning in the rain. Young ladies should take care of themselves.—Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion.’”

— Jane Austen, Emma

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2021.11.22 ° #MinorSnowIsHere The coming year will be abundant.

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Did I feel any chagrin, I endeavoured to put on an air of serenity, and even an affected cheerfulness; carried my zeal so far, that I used to put myself to voluntary pain; and tried my temper, by seeming to express a satisfaction; laboured with the same care and trouble to repress the sudden tumult of unexpected joy. It is thus that I gained that ascendancy over my countenance which has so often astonished you.

Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (via always-returning)

I’m looking for a good quote to put at the top of my teaching philosophy statement. I like this one.

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In other words, a lack of meaning in modern life is met with a mentality of demands that leads, inevitably, to an over-accumulation of supposedly 'transforming' objects, exactly because the life one lives in modern society 'is empty,' Marquard says... [T]he disappearance of meaning in modern life is covered up by a preoccupation with essentially superficial 'things' that are fetishized (endowed with a mystical transforming power) and become the true carrier of radically subjective meaning, but rather than substantially replacing the apparent loss of meaning they only add bulk or clutter to life. This, once again, represents an aspect of the uncanny, as the imaginary world of the subjective is confronted by the reality of the possible material disorder of life.

John Scanlan, On Garbage

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Friends: Breezy (Clip) | TBS

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Q2 Robot

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Mr. Darcy obsessively staring at his future wife for almost 6 minutes st...