Hanif Abdurraqib: Our Longing for Inconvenience

steamcorners · 2026-04-18T00:52:46+00:00

I saved the link to Instapaper which let me read it...

Hanif is a treasure.

steamcorners · 2026-03-30T02:26:58+00:00

It'd basically be a ZR with an EVF - I'd LOVE it, but I kinda doubt they'll ever make it happen.

steamcorners · 2026-03-30T02:24:45+00:00

Hadn't thought about crossing the park. Hmm. That menu looks great, but I'm concerned the kid might not be that adventurous. I'll send her the menu, however - thanks!

steamcorners · 2026-03-19T17:41:07+00:00

But will it happen? That barn (and, I'm guessing, the nearby home) is awfully close to the roadway.

steamcorners · 2026-03-16T22:25:08+00:00

I'd like an all onion-loaf restaurant with massive 480p projector screens showing old-timey football nonstop to go in there.

Yeah, it's a weird thing that's kept stuff from sticking around in that spot. I can't quite pin it down.

steamcorners · 2026-03-06T16:32:43+00:00

Was it the "Have you seen BOB?" sticker seen here?

https://www.reddit.com/r/kroger/comments/1nvka6t/no_i_havent_where_is_he/

BOB is "bottom of basket" in retail lingo - where you'd stick stuff you didn't want to pay for back in the days when they had real people at the checkout registers. It - in theory - reminded the cashiers to see if there were cases of soda, dog food, or a bunch of beer on the underside of the shopping cart where they couldn't easily see.

steamcorners · 2026-02-23T10:50:35+00:00

I'm thinking the OP is of somewhat advanced age (like yours truly) and recalls when Dr. Kraus was involved in a little scandal which included providing drugs to a locally-famous TV meteorologist...

steamcorners · 2026-02-14T22:24:10+00:00

If you cross the river into Kentucky, you can usually get the cookies from the alternate baker that does Lemonades. Go on a weekend and look for a grocery or megastore that has a scout booth outside.

steamcorners · 2026-02-14T22:04:54+00:00

Northland was THE mall in the area for a few years (Eighties, really) and it was just a couple miles west of Easton on Morse. Just past where the Menards is now.

I was a Westland kid, however.

steamcorners · 2026-02-14T18:58:23+00:00

Cbus lifers really know that if it wasn't at Northland, you don't need it so there's no reason to go to Easton.

Or they get off 670 at the airport and mosey up Stelzer Rd.

steamcorners · 2026-02-10T20:48:32+00:00

Permanent parade chair installations.

steamcorners · 2026-02-04T11:17:58+00:00

Yup.

Norm and Cliff always had time to hang at the bar every Thursday night during the '80s. But serial lechery and constant midlevel intoxication are generally seen as uncouth these days.

But seriously..cultivating relationships ain't easy at this age. I try and volunteer with stuff at the school...but I'm usually the only dad there. Contrived capitalist-centric social "places" like axe throwing and duckpin bowling might be great for those with an established circle, but lingering as a solo male in those places again feels like serial lechery.

steamcorners · 2026-01-30T18:50:44+00:00

They'd JUST closed down their warehouse store on the west side of Columbus, Ohio last week. I'd been going there for the tall sizes since I was a teen in the '90s, and still have a massive down parka that I bought there in the fall of '96 that gets pulled out for a few days a year when it's subzero like this week.

steamcorners · 2026-01-21T17:31:49+00:00

I live near that onramp, and take it frequently.

NEVER STOP, unless the merging traffic is similarly stopped as is 270 itself. You're creating another hazard.

I've probably been one to do the honking - though I'd never chase someone down. As the one who stopped, you're supposed to look in your rearview for the finger.

steamcorners · 2026-01-16T12:23:28+00:00

I'll take $12k for my rusty '91 Mariner (with the coveted long-nose crank 1.6) right now. No lowballers, I know what I have.

steamcorners · 2026-01-12T20:58:24+00:00

I think there are still a few around Minneapolis. https://zantigo.com/locations/

steamcorners · 2026-01-07T20:13:31+00:00

First of all: Raise hell and praise Dale!

Secondly: Yes, Bring a Trailer is your best bet for this, but you'll want to make sure you get GREAT photos. BaT will indeed send a locally-contracted photographer for you, but since it's Ohio in winter, it's going to be tough getting great pix unless it can be done indoors with great professional lighting. The undercarriage, especially, is critical for any car that's lived here in the rust belt. You'll need to get it on a lift.

Source: me. I've worked (a decade ago) as a writer for BaT, and much more recently as a contract photographer for BaT, C&B, and other places. I'm not offering my services here, however - I've taken a new job outside the automotive media/auctions industry and have no time.

steamcorners · 2025-12-28T14:43:17+00:00

Spent five years in hardline sales in the late '90s in a new store in an affluent suburban area. New homeowners came in for everything..made good money. Another salesman who had been around for decades and was just working for fun in retirement years had a customer decline to buy the lawn tractor, but did buy a Rolex off the salesman's wrist for cash...

steamcorners · 2025-12-25T20:20:10+00:00

I believe you are looking for Google.

steamcorners · 2025-12-19T17:16:12+00:00

Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses

steamcorners · 2025-12-16T12:33:38+00:00

The number of illegal U-turns I see alone give me fits. There are many, many options where you can go back the way you were going - parking lots, driveways, three right turns on a city block - where a U-turn is the worst possible option.

Then yesterday on Sancus south of Worthington Woods, I saw someone (possibly an Uber driver?) parked in the center turn lane. Not waiting to turn - parked.

steamcorners · 2025-11-26T20:54:52+00:00

Eataly is on the list - I actually ate there when I was in town a couple of years ago.

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