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I used to work at Casey Rubber Stamps in the East Village, the best shop in New York City. I was a very big fan of John and the store prior to working there. I begged him to give me a job at the store for over a year. Finally he gave in and I was thrilled! I worked there 7 days a week for a period which was a massive trip. John Casey is an idiot savant, very much a folk hero. He simultaneously drove me raving mad and taught me so much. I loved watching boxing with him on Saturday mornings while making stamps. John is truly the last of his kind in New York City. Beautiful handmade rubber stamps, go see go buy
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i have a big soft spot for quiet lil guys like john. curious if actual new yorkers feel the same
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Von and I had the privilege of staying at an incredible place called Brunel Sculpture Garden in Boiceville NY for a week. The garden is a home to gigantic cement sculptures created by Emil Brunel who lived and worked on the property 100 years ago. The grounds are now lived on and meticulously maintained by a wonderful couple, Cynthia and Evgeny Nikitin. They are wonderful people and extremely generous and inspiring hosts. One day Cynthia and Evgeny took us to visit their friend Nick Della Penna. Nick is a visionary man who created a folk art site called Rock Star meadows. Him and his late partner Estelle Ross would dig up huge boulders from riverbeds by hand without the use of any tools and drag them great distances back to his property to use them in gigantic stone walls and towers. He’s 82 and he looks like he could be in his 60s. His brute strength, determination and willpower is profoundly staggering. Nick also makes amazing marble statues and mosaics that he fills the place with. He has friends and admirers that come and assist him in his work. I’m hoping to return as soon as possible to help Nick move his boulders and build his walls. Truly an extraordinary man.
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I’ve had two separate experiences seeing doppelgängers when I was living in Philly working as a dishwasher. This was not the same thing as simply finding someone who looks just like you or someone else. It was a far more unsettling and confusing situation. On two separate occasions I witnessed two of my coworkers passing through the kitchen single file and going down into the basement with disturbingly blank expressions on their faces. But both times they weren’t in the basement when I checked, they were in the front by the register. I did some digging on the internet to see if anybody had experienced anything similar and to my surprise I found lots of cases of doppelgänger sightings. Many stories had eerily identical details to my own, down to the uncanny valley facial expressions of the doubles. People think experiences like these are hallucinations brought on by extreme lack of sleep which would make a lot of sense because I was sleeping very little at the time. Nonetheless it deeply effected me.
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