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Ellen: Not far from where I’m living is a giant papazan chair. It is very imperial. And today, in preparation for this post, I went over, shot some photos, and knocked on the door. I wanted to ask the owners if you could bike over with your bud and photograph yourselves sitting in this huge papazan chair. No one was home. But I did get the address. There were several packages waiting at the door for someone to come home and collect them. But no one answered my first knock or my second. Of course, as I had my camera for the chair, I decided I might as well shoot these cement chinese guard dogs because, well, they’re just as imperial as the chair, thought not quite as grand. 

Doesn’t all this sound terribly exciting? Doesn’t it make you just want to drop what you’re doing? Don’t you just want to run to the shed, fiddle with the lock, grab your bike, don our helmet, and peddle like mad nearly as far as you’ve ever peddled before just to see this HUGE – am I not right? – HUGE papazan chair sitting in the sun in the florida town where you, Ellen Foley, live and were born and found happiness? Huh? Don’t you? Just a little? A teeny bit? A weenzy bit? A microscope bit? An atomic bit? A subatomic bit?
 Hey I’ve found some other cool stuff too, you know. You might be interested. Really. For instance, there is a Goodwill or Salvation Army or Thrift store on South Orange Avenue with all sorts of cool stuff in it. A Foosball Table. Yes. A Foosball table. Cheap. In fact, there were three! AND on the way there you have to pass something, I think, is really cool, another thing just to go see, another thing to get on your bike, with your bud, and look for, another REAL photo opportunity. What is it? An old english double decker bus. Like right out of Harry Potter. Really. Just down from the hospital, the ORHS hospital, you know, where your mom works. Hey. FYI I am more fun than Adventure Quest. Really. I’ve tried it. And I know I’m more fun than that. Come on. Tell me I am. Please. I’ll pay you. Papi$an

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