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The Arcane Ensconced by Young Cain

July 25th, 2009 8:47 PM / Location: 37.726058,-122.4306

INSTRUCTIONS: Install a secret message.

Today I decided to lace Mission street with essence of Kerouac. In spirit of being/ living in San Francisco, talking to my friends about how we're taught that we, in society, should be this or we should be that, and what defines "America" I decided to play off of Kerouac's version of freedom (free poetry) to give the world my message: to be insightful and have fun. I did three things: the first was to print out several Kerouac poems and make sure people would find them (representing art and insight), to play a game with gum (representing fun), and decorated sand dollars and hid them, just for funsies. :] Being as it was five o clock, I didn't know how many people would see the poems or cards, but I found that almost everything was read, flipped over, or ogled at. Being as I'm suffering from a bout of writer's block, I thought this might help the process and get things moving as well as brighten up someone's day. Most of my tapings were gone or opened when I came back about two hours later.

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"Pull my daisy" one of my most favorite poems that Kerouac wrote. It's composed so it already has a built in rhythm.

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I learned from the best. I wanna go to Vegas. :'[

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Pick a card, any card! This was my "have fun" idea. People pick one of the three cards, one of which would have gum underneath. of course, if you didn't win, you'd just find the gum anyway by flipping over the other cards. Everyone wins! :]

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This was at the Excelsior library. I fortunately was not caught by any homocidal librarians.

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The people of Taco Bell/KFC were staring at me when I put this up... O_____O

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This person very graciously kept everything up and took the gum. :]

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By the YMCA.

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There were three of these, two contained faces, one contained the pretext of a story i wrote on the spot.

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After tasking, I decided to go to La Boheme, which is a regular haunt of mine. Awad was updating his menu at the time. Incidentally, the writing above the sign he's hanging does not contain food: that sign is on the other side of the room. :]

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My second favorite drink. Bought with many five quarters, which was all I had besides bus money. Omnomnom.

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I returned an hour later to inspect the damage. Aw... rippage.

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No one opened this. Suprisingly, it's a really busy bus stop.

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Pull my daisy was still left taped up on one of the store windows. :]

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After a long day of walking and tasking, it was time for dinner. Hamburgers=yum

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Happy Tasking! Love to all.

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posted by Palindromedary on September 23rd, 2009 4:25 PM

Watch out, librarians are dangerous Young Cain!

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posted by Young Cain on September 24th, 2009 10:09 PM

Truly, they are. But what is danger to a dark and misunderstood poet like myself who ventures there in spirit?.... actually that's not true at all. I'm a happy person: I bounded in, taped my wares, and ran out grinning. =]

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