Stairwell Aficionado

Apr 12

A Quarantined Stare: My Apartment Building

it's a pretty standard apartment building stairwell, kind of like this Charles Shaw Red Blend I'm drinking straight from the bottle.

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Feb 28

A Quick Stare: Tumwater Falls

I was so happy to find some stairs that I didn't bother seeing the falls—I'd already fallen head-over-heels in love.

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Jan 11

A Quick Stare: My Viola Floral Studio

They said I could be anything I set my mind to and work hard toward. So I became a stairwell aficionado.

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Jan 1

Great Falls Public Library, Great Falls, MT

Library policy is If it's returned via the hole, you pay zero toll. The other policy being What happens in the romance section stays there.

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Nov 22, 2019

A Quick Stare: The Park Side Cafe--Emergency Stairwell

I performed the ancient vegan trick of regurgitating partially digested food to travel backwards in time.

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Nov 12, 2019

GRuB, Olympia

The teacher encouraged us to start cutting up vegetables and letting them fall right into the water around the brazenly naked man before us.

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Oct 15, 2019

A Quick Stare: East Bay Drive, Olympia

I had to bribe the Oly Projects twitter account with a promise to open all of their sealed pickle jars, but they gave me the answer I sought

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Oct 7, 2019

A Quick Stare: State of the Arts Gallery and Gifts, Olympia

These stairs get 3 art pieces that just really speak to me out of 5.

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Oct 2, 2019

A Quick Stare: Timberland Regional Library, Hoquiam

The bathroom was exceptionally clean. --was-- ------!WAS!------

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Sep 29, 2019

A Quick Stare: Department of Labor and Industries

I'd been exploring the Dept. of Labor and Industries, turned a corner, and saw this absolute unit wriggle before my eyes.

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Sep 9, 2019

A Quick Stare: Olympic Visions mural, Port Angeles

When Guy Fieri or Smash Mouth vocalist Steve Harwell roll into town with their frosted tips, things get slippery--like in a bad way; you do

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Aug 10, 2019

A Quick Stare: Old Town Center, Tumwater

The rails are excellent for sliding down on one's butt--a butt draped in pants, of course.

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Aug 1, 2019

A Quick Stare: The Park Side Cafe, Olympia

Stairwell Aficionado The hardwood stairs are sick! The twisty spindles are sick! Creepily watching others from the rooftop dining area is...

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Jul 15, 2019

Quick Stare: Portland Greens PDX--Portland, OR

The decor is so lifelike. After I got a 7 stroke on hole 4, some animatronic pirates started yo-ho-ing and smacked me with a plaster rapier.

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Jun 10, 2019

Quick Stare: Eastside Urban Farm and Garden Center

They didn't sell any of those giant piranha plants emerging from and receding into giant green pipes that I could warp around in.

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Jun 6, 2019

Quick Stare: The Evergreen State College, LAB II

I thought me and the stairwells were cool; I thought the stairwells were going to let me use Their Word which had historically been used aga

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Jun 1, 2019

Quick Stare: The Evergreen State College Library Building, 3-Floor Above Vending Machines

Around and around and around the vending options go. Where they stop, only RAD mechanic Steve knows.

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May 21, 2019

Quick Stare: Soap Co. Coffee House, Jacksonville, IL

Stairwell Aficionado I asked for a Cafe Au Lait, and the barista lowered her head and bull-charged me through the wall and into Our Town ...

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