Happy Haunted Pumpkin Day, Miltonians!

We went to Philly, the Phils won.  We went to the Pine Barrens, and Bruce offers up THIS gem today.  Now it’s your turn.  Go to the polls and make the magic happen.  2008, man.  It’s is our year.

It’s Good To See You

This post is being made from a layover disaster Denver hotel, Colorado style.  FSD’s one week in Philadelphia was all we expected it to be and much, much more.  It warms our hearts to no end to have seen all of you, each and every one of you, and the fact that our visit coincided with the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series was just…oh man, yeah.  YEAH.  Stick around over the next few days as we upload the best of our photographs and reminisces from a trip that we’re missing already.  We miss it.  We miss you.  As always: thanks.

Going Home

October 21-28.  Wilmington, Mt. Laurel, Philadelphia.  Follow the adventure via twitter.com/erikbader.

See you there.

Milas Kunis Plays WoW

She starts talking about “the game” around the three and a half minute mark.  I mean, wow.

Fort Saint Davids Hearts The Internet

Say what you will about how the InterIdiotBox2.0 has rotted our minds, sapped our creativity, melted our inspiration, evaporated our passions, and manipulated our souls into Twitching, Twittering Useless Usenet Globs of Goo, still, where the fuck was shit like this before the Almighty Web showed up on your Screen?  Dog, dawg.  Dang.  Dylan Thomas!

Your FSD Late October Visit/All-Venture Visual Soundtrack

Route 295, brightcool afternoons…Ramblewood Parkway, Mount Laurel, Kings Highway, Haddonfield, parks and fields. Streams. Rt. 38, Rt. 70, Rt. 78. Ghost of Olga’s Diner. Reality of Medport Diner. Grilled cheese, tomato soup, french fries, cup of hot coffee. Wawa parking lot hangout. High fives.

Medford Lakes, deep evenings. Apple Pie Hill. Pine Barrens secrets. Barnegat Light. Delco. Yeadon. Devils Pool. Forbidden Trail. Gandys Beach.

You’ve moved to some town in some neighborhood somewhere along the Delaware Bay. Sussex County. All those beaches with the spooky names. Slaughter Beach. Primehook Beach. Broadkill Beach. You don’t sleep as much as you used to. Do you even need to? Things are happening again. Cold beaches. New feelings. This vibe:

More vids to come, stay tuned — FSD!

Alex to FSD: Gandys Beach Will FUCK YOU UP

“Jesus, bro.”

It’s Weekend Time here at FSD, which for us means reading Saul Bellow novels, walking across wet leaves, and eating spicy Thai food.  What else?  The best place about having a fireplace is it actually gets ’stoked.’

The time draws near for our Delaware Valley Adventure, and there’s Way Too Many people we plan on seeing…Patricio…Dr. Ward…JoJo…Baxter the Dog.  The feckin’ Reason.  Molly the Cat.  Lex with the Axe.  Old Man Gandy.  DJ Salem.  FELDMAN.

We’ll visit some old, strange places, just to see them.  Like the Tri-State Mall, oh man.  We just found a blog talking about the TSM, take this random opinion, which completely jives with ours:

i have lived in claymont for 30+ years. tri-state mall was a great place even through the mid/late 80s. i have some terrific kid memories from that place. every store was in use up to the late 80s. movie theatre was great, there was a lounge/billiards in the back corner, shoe stores, chess king(haha), toy store, book stores, arcade, and lots of weird, stereotypical 70s/80s mall-type novelty stores. the yum yum bar was half candy store, half roller-rink style snack bar. geez…i have dreams about that place….oh well. i hate all the talk about knocking it down. 

This is the page we’re taking this from, please check.

Here’s an even more amazing comment:

I remember the mall and specifically village records, pet store, friends used to work at the orange bowl and pocket on the side all the $$$ they could, Hash was cheep thiose days, Claymont class of 79. Tina used to discount my movie tickets. It is a sad commentary to have gone back there some time ago (many years) and witnessed such a depressing decline. One of the reasons I rarely venture north of Boca Raton! The confluence of Brookview (”Crookview”) and the ever declining corridor from Philly/Chester to Wilmington, how could one not one see the demise. For those of you wishing to see a costco or anything of substance taking its place, don’t nold your breath. Having been on the development side of commercial RE, “it’s ain’t gonna happen” in REIT speak. My suggestion, bull doze and plow, then sow salt into the wounded earth and hope that nothing of such evil can ever sprout its seed again.

I mean come on!  Tri-State Mall! The comments on this thing keep getting better and better, as people start to remember the time when someone got up on the water tower and changed the name to Tri-State MalE.  Then this miracle of a comment arrives:

 

TRI STATE MALE said, ON SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2008 AT 8:52 AM

I WAS TAKING QUAALUDES AND CLIMBED THE WATER TOWER AND SPRAY PAINTED TRI STATE MALE. THIS ACT WAS THE MOST FAMOUS THING I HAVE EVER DONE, EVEN THOUGH ONLY AL TURKS AND GREGG SHALLUS WITNESSED IT, MOST OF CHICHESTER HIGH SCHOOL DOESN’T BELIEVE ME.

So yeah, Gandys Beach will fuck you up, and so with the Tri-State Mall.  And so will the venerable Merchants Square, a crumbling collection of edifices so ancient and mighty that it barely has a Web Presence.  And who the fuck wants Web Presence today?  We could read about Lost NJ towns and abandoned DE malls all day, and you could just as well read about us reading about them.  But what’s the point?  Time’s up, get off this thing and go enjoy yourself.  Every day we pick up the Times and right there on the front page there’s this chart with an arrow going down.  Yeah, well, so what. We’re not going anywhere, the arrow just points down to where we already are, so all it means to us is: Oh Cool, More Friends.  Which is fine.  Real fine.  We’re not publishing because of the cost and we’re not drawing because of the paint and we’re not recording because of the tape.  It’s all just a lot of effort and a whole lot of money but hey man talk is cheap so let’s just hang.  The arrow points to us and the slide is everyone coming to join.  You down?  Man when weren’t we.

Sarah Sarringtons to FSD: Your East Coast Agenda

dear you:

notes on your impending autumnal eastern visit are as follows:

(i apologize for the possible stringent sounding nature of my list, it is important that we

follow appropriate time table proceedures and move with a fluidity as a

group thru our activites of extreme fun or we may not have enough

hours/minutes/days to complete all of the tasks, i mean enjoyable activities,

that i am planning for us do do on your visit here.)

10/21 arrival! sleep/rest/enjoy east coast autumn crisp air

10/22 rise and shine brush off that weird jet lag feeling and get down to

http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=393 for some La Colombe coffee

and yummy almond crossionts. get in your rental go to academia by way of princeton u.

get pretty leaves and press them between wax paper that you purchase at a pathmark supermarket. go to http://www.prex.com/

and hope that the rental has a tape deck b/c i think we all know that a lot of great music is still on tapes. i am thinking lemonheads-it’s a shame about ray, pixies-doolittle, REM-automatic for the people and ummmmm fleetwood mac-rumours for really good measure. maybe when you are hungry for dinner you can sneak into a princton “supper club” to get your eat on. if not head back down to philly and pick up your back pack clad friend from class and head into southern jerzey for a night of pants pooping spooktacular pine barrens exploration which of course will be timed.

10/23 wake up! eat every meal from a nj state diner http://www.njdiners.com/cgi-bin/listing.cgi. lay down at night in a random field next to the buzzing lights of a wawa and let the disco fries dance in your tummy while you attempt to wax philosophical about what may or may not happen when we hit another great depression or when the aliens invade or when it starts snowing in august.

10/24 big day! beachy bizness. jersey/delaware anyware. diners. perfect playlists. sunglasses. homemade ade. sunset in the sand. head to scarytown at creamy acres! http://www.nightofterror.com/ (ummmm i am seriously puking while looking at this, i can’t wait to be terrified!!!!!) after scaring selves crapless eat a apple cider donut fresh off the belt. sleep with nightmares.

can’t wait to seeeeee you!!!!!

xoxoxs!

B’Roadtrips

Erik: bro sarringtons is like SO INTO these road trips1:35 PM She’s lke wait you havent forgetton me have you? I’m still ON THESE TRIPS, right? Alex: LOL yeah she wants like plannedones i’m like no, aimless YOU DON”T UNDERSTNAD basically the only aim is to find a diner Erik: SRSLY For grilled cheese, fries, jumbo cokes1:36 PM Jesus check the hours on the CHATTERBOX I may not eat chicken, but if I eat three grilled cheese here comes the rope! Alex: davis mill diner LOL holy shit
hancocks bridge diner yeah 171:37 PM i’m looking at deep southwest jersey south of salem bro Erik: LOLZ Alex: it must be wild Erik: Take ferries from NJ to DE Alex: the eastern coast of the delaware bay there are no towns it must be too swampy Erik: ride the commodore barry bridge Alex: ever been to sea breeze1:38 PM way south from comm barry Erik: shit gave me neighmairs Alex: like 30 miles Erik: as kid http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/newJersey/CommodoreBarryBridge.jpg Alex: ORLY?
yeah Erik: hell yeah1:42 PM Alex: gandy’s beachAlex: i bet that ones wildErik: JESUS WHAT IS GANDY’S BEACHAlex: hmI DON’T KNOW WHAT IT ISLOOK AT HOW FAR OUThttp://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=new%20jersey%20map&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl1:44 PM across the bay from BOMBAY HOOK1:45 PM soul-crushing brohttp://byscuits.com/photos/gandys-beach/we need to find the gandy’s beach dinerall gandy’s in the US of A trace back to Gandy’s Beach NJ1:46 PM Alex: how do you feel about this?http://gloucestercitynews.typepad.com/clearysnotebook/2008/07/downe-motorcycl.html1:48 PM dudehttp://www.njdiners.com/cgi-bin/listing.cgi1:49 PM godd damn it
Salem Oak DinerW Broadway and Oak, Salem – (609) 935-1305look at the town
Golden Palace Restaurant Diner200 N. Virginia Ave., Carneys Point – (609) 299-3242that’s where we take youyou must be taught a lessonand told that you trulymust nevereverlet yourself1:50 PM become a laughing boy, a venom, or a carny boyErik: lolcarneys pointAlex: when you click on atlantic county, are any of those diners barrens?pleasebrobarrens dinersneed them nowErik: red lion diner is right on the cusp1:52 PM me and tedesco used to get on thatAlex: wtf is this? Harley Dawn Diner1402 Black Horse Pike, Folsom – (609) 567-6084did you see tedesco?Erik: jesus did I tell you that the entire high school cast of the pilot found me on facebook?Alex: http://gloucestercitynews.typepad.com/clearysnotebook/2008/07/downe-motorcycl.htmlLOLErik: ZAVE, WILKINSON, ANDREW BRADERAlex: noErik: all of themi know the harley dawn brojesus bro please click this linkhttp://losttownsvideo.billmecca.com/1:55 PM Alex: omg1:57 PM loli think i found that millville diner we went to1:58 PM Erik: did u click the linklost towns2:02 PM Alex: yeah i sawomgi’2:10 PM m checking referrals on miltlolit’s just many different iterations of hulk vs silver surferErik: no shitit still gets commments2:11 PM Alex: yeah i see them4 hits from “heroes”lolTODAYhaverford college LOLLLLL2:16 PM futurism lolcatsomg“i left wow because”Erik: hahahahAlex: “leeland cypruss cedar trees”2:17 PM “mokey fraggle poems”“any poem that is about october”jesus“warcraft lolcats”“summer babe albert camus”2:18 PM bro ou just totally helped out some bro who was looking for a good october poem to impress his girl

The Lowest Part Is Free!

We moved. Not far, but in a different district. We like it so far. We’ve been busy. There’s furniture to be procured — there’s furnishing happening, right now. It’s time for the rain again, the season of the mists the sprinkles and the sprays and the trickles and the drips and the drops. It’s fine. In the meadows the elk are bugling, crows gather to caw on buildings, a coyote takes dry refuge under a sopping ponderosa, and in our backyard: raccoon bandits, nosing for vittles. Excellent, we say. Bravo.

Chilly fall nights, but warm under blankets: we’ve been watching Fringe, Heroes, and the Office, and so far we’re extremely pleased with all three. Speaking off the latter [where's my Elements of Style? The latter would be of two. What would be three? I'm saying last? Ok: last], maaaan, Creed.

A reminder: But did you know Creed was in the Grass Roots? The who? Oh you’ll know when you– oh man OK just click this and say WOAHMG:

I know, right? Wild.