two fell swoops

I’ve been feeling particularly disgruntled in my cubicle this Monday, thus, would like to share a great local sign we snagged on one of our patina scouting adventures.

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So, our garage sale on Saturday wasn’t as good as we hoped. While we did end up offloading some stuff, and making a bit of money to offset wedding expense, Tim accidentally sold something that he’s going to regret for a long time. It was this thing called a “Walkboard,” which is difficult […]

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we’re having a garage sale this weekend to make space in our storage garage, and to raise some money to for our wedding. stop by and sit for a while, or browse and buy something.
lots of weird stuff to sell! come and get it!
here’s the craigslist post: http://annarbor.craigslist.org/gms/1204216383.html
map: http://bit.ly/jb9WO

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i’m kind of awkward, but you get the point.
skating-the-drainage-ditch.mov

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I wanted to write a quick note about an awesome Scrabble Competition Tim and I are competing in next month, and encourage you to support team Swoops!
826 Michigan, an “nonprofit writing and tutoring center offering free literacy programs to over 1500 kids each year,” is hosting a scrabble contest at Conor O’Neils on September 28th […]

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Tim will soon write a post about our Valentine’s Day at White Castle. He will also probably take down this picture. But until then: UPDATE (by Tim): Yes, I’m weird about having pictures of my face on the  blog, so I took down the picture.  It’s still up at the White Castle Valentine’s […]

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Two items regarding backyard critters:
1. Have you seen a shaved squirrel running around Ann Arbor? My dad got us a squirrel-proof feeder for Christmas, which was working well until the other day - I looked out and a fat squirrel had knocked the thing on the ground and was kind of sitting upright in […]

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Next week (Dec 1-9) is buy local week. Read this blurb from Think Local First:
“Where you spend your money is a reflection of what you want your community to look like. If each member of our community spent just 10% more of their purchasing dollars at locally owned businesses, it would make a huge […]

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Living at a busy intersection, overlooking Main Street, we hear a lot of traffic noise - people singing in their cars, near-accident honks, weird smooth jazz tunes leaking out of SUVs.
The traffic is nice. I grew up near a busy intersection, have lived in big cities, and have learned to like hearing […]

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Last summer, the Swoops took a trip to South Dakota and recorded music. We just pressed our first installment of this project, a 4-song 7″ record that you can buy exclusively on December 1st at the Shadow Art Fair!
Here’s the blurb Tim wrote about the project:
In the Summer of 2007, we packed our car full […]

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