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Home (away from home)

By Matthew Rutledge on 10.08.2009

All that Google Mapping last night made me quite nostal­gic. And a bit depressed.
This is where I was mugged, in Bed-Stuy, in Brooklyn. The tan town­house, in the little front stoop area.
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This is where the handle­bars fell of my bicycle, I hit a car head on, and flipped into the road, and […]

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Die Matt-rosen

By Matthew Rutledge on 09.08.2009

God I just love this song.  It reminds me of exactly two things — my old roommate/friend Elizabeth Skadden and the trip I took in November 2006 to Bogota, Colombia.  Both remem­brances put me back to a time in my life when I was truly happy.  Those endless summer nights at Barton Springs, or watching […]

Posted in Deutschland, nostalgia | Tagged memories, MP3, NDW, new wave, nostalgia, post-punk | Leave a response

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The suburb of failed obscure European imports

By Matthew Rutledge on 09.04.2009

Being unem­ployed means that you pay atten­tion to useless noth­ing­ness while avoid­ing the actual task at hand, i.e. find­ing a job. So here I was, randomly Google Mapping the city of San Antonio, a place I don’t partic­u­larly care for, when I discovered a subdi­vi­sion who must have had a fairly massochistic master developer.  […]

Posted in Cultural Ephemera, Screenshots | Tagged alfa romeo, automobiles, brands, car, european, fiat, google, google maps, hillman, nostalgia, renault, retro, rootes, san antonio, texas | 2 Responses

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