Smith and Pooter Must Be Dead

Josh Gilpatrick
7-28-04

On July 27th I awoke bright and early at noon to find my Ebay account suspended, all of my auctions taken down, and numerous emails from our customers asking "what happened?" This was a hard question to answer, because I hadn’t a clue. Well, I had a small clue, but it was still a surprise.
In the past month, Smith and Pooter Vintage received several VeRO violations. If you’ve never
received a...

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Perceptions and Illusions in Southern California Mod Culture

Alex Knowles
7-28-04

drama: I am on a street corner somewhere near the heart of the los angeles metroplex. My cell phone rings and I pick it up to hear, “Is this Alex?” Certainly it was I. “Yeah, I think we spoke through emails last week and we were wondering if we could somehow make you an offer for your label,” he says....

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No longer searching for bobby fischer...

John Owen Skinner
7-28-04

Because he's been caught. He was recently apprehended in Japan by authorityies at the urging of the United States embassy, and he may be extradited to the USA to face trial and sentencing after evading American authorities for twelve years. His crime? He attended a chess tournament in Yugoslavia back in 1992. Yeah, that's it. This guy's hardly as exciting as, say, Roman Polanski, whom the French apparently stil have no intention of turning over (because they are jerks)...

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Coachella 2004

Paul Teagan
7-28-04

If I had to sum up the 2004 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in one word, it'd be "hyper expansive mind tripping heat wave of rock." If you don't know what Coachella is, I'll explain. Every May, in the little desert town of Indio, California, a bunch of bands show up and rock the socks off of the town
and consequentially split like a contradictory two-day one night stand...

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God Exists and I Have Proof

Josiah Jarrett
7-28-04

My proof? Simply a quote: "I just, like, wanted to go in there. I thought I could slip back out, but I couldn't"-Timmy, a boy who crawled into a toy crane game.

In my heart of hearts I dream I somehow fathered this child. I toy with the idea and a smile springs to my face much as it must have done to Timmy when he crawled...

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