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G-Unit coat
FOUND by Kamilla Weinhardt
in London, UK
I found this in Dalston, e8. I collect found objects and made a book of my finds a couple of years ago (before I saw your magazine!). This is one of my favourites at the moment.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Hmmm... someone must have lost their own G-Unit coat...whatever in the world that is.
And, what's an e8?
hah... it almost looks like "a-unit coat". wonder why dia can't ask miguel in front of mom's face.
i mean... my mom's face has always been a fan of stylish outerwear.
This reminds me of the guy who hangs out in the courtyard at my college smoking and talking on his phone. He either wears the same G-Unit t-shirt or gold and black striped nike t-shirt every day. Someone told me he doesn't even take classes there, he just hangs out and preys on women. I used to sit out there and pretend to study while watching him. (I am small and mousy and therefore flew under the radar.)
Mom would just die if she knew I lived the thug life.Our secret.Pinkie swear?!
@Freonz:
E8 is Hackney. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_post page</a>.
So... please ask in back of Mom's face?
I think *Phoebe* hit the nail on the head!!
I believe G-Unit is the clothing line *50 Cent* owns.
G-Unit Coat?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
i couldnt stop laughin..
thug life yes? cant be a thug without the ggggg G-unit! coat.
we are so uncool. the whole lot of us. we need a teenager in here, commenting, to teach a lesson about 'what the kids are wearing these days'
Maybe mum is dead or absent, and they are referring to her photo
G Unit coat
http://tinyurl.com/6x53fr
Property of G Unit tee shirt.
http://tinyurl.com/54wymo
Hard to tell what the particular G Unit coat in question may have looked like.
Mona Lisa, Google is a friend. Even to those who are devastatingly unhip. You don't need some know it all teenager to give you the 4-1-1.
(and my friend google tells me that E8 is some incomprehensible mathematical concept- perhaps the fabric of reality itself. Or maybe it's the code key to the portal.) http://tinyurl.com/2yqpx2
Raindrops' link didn't work for me, but I'm gathering that Hackney is a section of London. But where does "E8" come from? Is that like a Thomas Guide coordinate? Jonathan? Orinoco? Where are you?
oh i know that, googling. I'm just commenting on how terribly uncool we sound. Like a bunch of old ladies sipping tea. I, actually have offspring who give me the 411, and i know what/who G-Unit is. (and even how to say it, properly)
i love our collective uncoolness.
(that should have said the fabric of the Universe- not the fabric of reality. I like the sound of "the fabric of reality" better, though.)
While I was at it, of course I googled the Finder, but
http://www.kamillaweinhardt.com/
is under construction or something. Please Stay Tuned.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
OR DOES IT EXPLODE?
-Langston Hughes
OK, Smallbear- are you hittin' the psychedelic fungi again?
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool.We
Left school.We
Lurk late.We
Strike straight.We
Sing sin.We
Thin gin.We
Jazz June.We
Die soon.
-Gwendolyn Brooks
I wonder how Dia, Miguel, the writer and Mom are related. Are they in the same family? If so, why can't the writer ask Miguel himself? Was this note passed at the dinner table while Mom passed the peas?
Smallbear, I like that. I never heard that one before.
The fabric of reality is made of foundness.
BIG THINKS
We look down. We
Think found. We
Save stuff. We
Like scruffs. We
Risk germs. We
likes learns. We
On edges. We
Scope ledges. We
Steal raps. We
Scan scraps. We
Take pics. We
submit. We
See links. We
Big thinks.
oooh Smallbear that's one of my favorite poems, the Gwendolyn Brooks one... and "BIG THINKS" is now a new favorite, heh - although i'm still not sure exactly what inspired all the poetry.
i mean, a cute little beret and a coffee mug wouldn't really be the first thing i'd expect to find under Miguel's G-unit coat.
Mom's face doesn't enter in to it.
Moms also have ears, and eyes in the back of their head (we all know this).
This plan is ill-advised, no matter how phat the jacket is.
Smallbear, I thought that said SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOWER at first. No coffee. no glasses. Sunday Morning.. late night.. what do you espect?
@Googling:
you're kidding, right?
E8 is a postal district. London has N, NW, W, SE and E districts, plus WC (West Central) and EC -- for some reason not S or NE.
Not many people know that the numbers were allocated alphabetically, after '1' which is the nearest to the centre of London. I don't know about E-numbers, but in South-East London SE2 is Abbey Wood, SE3 is Blackheath, SE4 is Brockley, SE4 is Camberwell and so on, though the higher numbers are a bit random. I used to have a map with all of these on.
Then when postcodes were invented, you stick another letter, another digit and a couple of letters on the end and hey presto! -- your unique postal code which locates your address to within a few houses.
No, I'm not going to tell you mine! -- but where I work is WC2E 9DD for example.
I have a feeling that Canadian postcodes are even more headache-inducing than ours -- Mona, am I right??
@rollin G-Unit coat = "thug" wannabees + Mona's comment about everyone being uncool made me think of these "classic" 9th grade L.A. Class poems about teenage, street-kid angst.
Jonathan. I'm not sure that our postal codes make any sense. Every town, or city, has the same first three, and then the smaller areas are identified by the last three.
I dont let it induce headaches, i dont pay that much attention to it.
THe combination goes letter number letter
number letter number. Santa's postal code is
H0H 0H0 (the 0's are zeros)
Mona & Smallbear, another good reference is www.urbandictionary.com which really is helpful for translating slang. When I saw G-unit coat, I honest thought it was part of a school uniform, else I would have looked it up on urban dictionary.
*snort* I'm such a old fart. LOL
Smallbear, did those poems come from a book called "On City Streets?"
@Clover No they didn't come from that book, but sounds like they could have. Like I implied in an earlier post they are very commonly anthologized.
I found the Langston Hughes poem in a book called
" American Poetry Since 1950, Innovators & Outsiders" the Brooks poem I couldn't find in any of the book I have for some strange reason so I found it a website called poets.org.