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1901: Don’t Know What I Want but I Know How to Get It

The American writer Elbert Hubbard was best know for an essay entitled “A Message to Garcia,” which recounts the daring exploits of an American soldier as he carries a message from President William McKinley to General Calixto García just before … Continue reading

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1982: Do You Remember?

Do you Remember? We do it all for fun you know Get loaded after the show, it’s all part of the scene Don’t hate us, we’re just kids People say we’re behind the times, go ahead and see if I … Continue reading

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1971: He Says It Takes Two Kinds

2 yellow south white wedding dress naked parachute a man comes in. he offers me cocaine. two pure white powders. somethings fishy. one is lumpy. he says it takes two kinds. one is outlaw cocaine. hardon. makes you pant like … Continue reading

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1990: Black Leather Jacket

From a museum show of leather jackets. This site dates this jacket to “ca. late 1970s–early 1980s,” but the “Punisher” pin and Cannibal Corpse patches clearly indicate a date in the 1990’s.

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1977: I am a Passenger / I Stay Under Glass

Esther Friedman: Iggy Pop (c. 1977); from her book of photographs, The Passenger.

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1883: The Armed Goddess

THE ARMED GODDESS I dreamed that I sat reading in my study, with books lying about all round me. Suddenly a voice, marvellously clear and silvery, called me by name. Starting up and turning, I saw behind me a long … Continue reading

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