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I came across this little essay/journal years ago while checking up on a well-known (I think now defunct) urbex group. It stuck with me for some reason. I was reminded of it yesterday.

Teapots happen, man

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On January 30th, 2006, I was suddenly compelled to explore the hidden crawlspace under my back stairs.

Now, I'm "Max Action - Urban Explorer" - a huge part of my life and self has been built up around my passion for exploring caves, tunnels, rooftops, basements - spaces between, spaces forgotten, spaces forbidden. And, of course, I LOVE crawlspaces.

They're definitive Spaces Between - hidden away out of sight and mind - voids where people put things to be kept yet forgotten forever - a shadowy Sheol where "the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten."

And my particular crawlspace has great potential, in part because my little house is pretty old - built in 1912.

And this is one of the Weird Things involved in this tale - in eight years of living in the house, years spent exploring every dark and hidden nook and cranny I could find in the Twin Cities area - I had never, ever been into the crawlspace, in my own house.

I'd never even looked into it.
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On a regular basis Lex, we get in our own way more than anyone else does.

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Hey Mook, gabba gabba one of us.

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The Nietzschean Das Ding is largely responsible for the overabundance of stupid people Darwin failed to account for his in his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

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I'm more familiar with Kant's Ding an sich; will have to look into this other ding further.

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Losing weight is so easy. Just mostly eat food that doesn't have many calories in it, and accept that you'll be mildly hungry all the time. I weighed 166 today. Once I get to 155ish I'll stop. Buying new clothes is unacceptable.


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I find your lack of faith disturbing. The ability to destroy a planet is nothing next to the power of the Force.

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Wait, Lex, you're Alex Trebek!??

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Kaffis, he's just Alex Trebek, Jr. You didn't know that. :)

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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
Wait, Lex, you're Alex Trebek!??


Hah, never noticed this, but it's the same until the b (not counting the b).


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I was reading the bacon-rose thread and as I was typing my response I smelled roses and I was all "no way! That's an insane psychosomatic response!" and just as I thought that, I looked 6 inches to the left of my nose and saw the rose in a jar that my step-daughter had picked on Friday afternoon. DUH!

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Holy Christ really? LMAO.. this is some funny **** maynard.

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Should we start calling them "Wayne Brady Campaigns" now?

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Rye bread is 100x more awesomer than white bread.

I really want a Reuben now.

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I'm very bored.

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I'm very bored.

Do the cabbage patch.

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I really miss my babies.
I effing hate holidays.

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LadyKate wrote:
I really miss my babies.
I effing hate holidays.

*hugs*
Me too, every year that passes it seems I have another reason to like them less.

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