kit @kit@friend.camp

For the last few years, I've been enthralled by the Sunsphere, a big golden spherical tower in Knoxville, Tennessee that is one of the last standing pieces of the 1982 World's Fair. I'm also super fascinated by the fact that Knoxville had a World's Fair and all the things that had to happen to make that a thing. I'm funneling all my weird Sunsphere energy into an occasional newsletter and I'm sending out the first one on New Years Day. Please join me, if you'd like.

https://tinyletter.com/adoxographic

welcome to my guestbook!

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Under the cobble stones, it's me, your pal Kit

[me, during the annual sandhill crane migration] THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

https://soundcloud.com/snake_lore/so-much-to-do

After that, the Generals scored a four-pointer and spent most of the remaining game ahead. The Globetrotters came back with ~30 seconds left and then scored a few more points including a slam dunk by Money just as the buzzer went off.

holy fuck y'all it was an experience

At this point the Globetrotter had like 114 points versus the Generals 73 points. So one of the Generals who was also mic'd up said that the Generals had their own rewind, and they rewound the scoreboard until both teams were at 73 points. The announcer was shocked and scandalized by this development but the refs let it stand.

also, I forgot to mention that at some point during this flawless live-action instant replay, the main Globetrotter got a big floppy leather cowboy hat and wore it for the duration of the replay.

Now, at the top of the play, he yelled "Let's watch it in Slow Motion" and they reenacted the entire play again slowly with a beach ball painted like their game balls. Partway through, the main Globetrotter yelled at a guy walking in the stands, reminding him that we were in slow motion and he had to walk slower. The beach ball just floated through the air. The crowd did the wave again but slow. The opposing player was more obviously out of bounds. The ref agreed that it was a foul.

So, for the benefit of the ref and to prove it was a foul, he yelled, "Alright, Instant Replay, Let's Rewind" and in double time he got the crowd to do the wave once backwards, all of the players on the court on both teams did the entire last play in reverse in double speed flawlessly. It was amazing.

After one play, one of the main Globetrotters had the ball close to the sideline, interrupted the game to start a wave in the crowd, during the wave he used his body position to get the guy covering him to step out of bounds, and then when the wave came back around he just handed the ball to the player on the other team, who was now out of bounds. The ref wouldn't call a foul on the other player. This upset our Globetrotter.

So obviously the Globetrotters game was just action-packed with amazing athletic feats. A globe trotter sank a shot from across the court at the other three point line. One player sank 10 four-point shots in the first half. Both teams combined scored over 200 points which is doubly amazing because for the 40 minutes on the clock, they played less than 20 minutes of actual basketball, the rest was goofs. But the most amazing thing was what happened in the fourth quarter.

judging from wayback machine, it's been like this for less than four years but more than two

trying to find out about one of the contractors on a job site i'm visiting tomorrow and this was their website lol

I am looking at a lighting company's catalog pages and for one of their light fixtures, they use this Monster Energy conference room with the Total Chaos Ceiling as the example photo

looking for good writing on the rise of postwar American suburbs, especially east coast / the South, bonus points if it talks about the motivations of suburbanization or the destabilizing effect suburbanization had on the city proper

For the last few years, I've been enthralled by the Sunsphere, a big golden spherical tower in Knoxville, Tennessee that is one of the last standing pieces of the 1982 World's Fair. I'm also super fascinated by the fact that Knoxville had a World's Fair and all the things that had to happen to make that a thing. I'm funneling all my weird Sunsphere energy into an occasional newsletter and I'm sending out the first one on New Years Day. Please join me, if you'd like.

https://tinyletter.com/adoxographic