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#5: the yellow issue

• Subscribe -- Letters from the editor -- DIY 5 · Justin Kerr
  - Welcome to 5diy. The next level. As you can see the design has once again evolved. This is thanks in large part to the graphic design stylings of Cam ...
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• Into Thin Air · Jeff Plunkett
  - Someone has been in one of the lavatories for about twenty minutes. Typically this wouldn’t be a big problem but the person entered the bathroom at p...
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• Dark Room · Kelly Craven
  - 3AM and he found himself in his studio again for the fourth night this week. It was less of a painting studio and more of an unfinished space at the ...
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• I Start with a Bottomless Glass of Wine · Stephanie King
  - I start my night with a bottomless glass of wine. Knowing the bartender personally is key when drinking is your favorite past time. Nick refills my ...
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• Brian Bennett: DIY's Man of the Year · Justin Kerr
  - “On Oct. 8 Time’s Brian Bennett got the message he had been awaiting from an intermediary: if he wished to interview members of an Iraqi resistance gr...
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• pieces of the parade – reflections on elephone. · Andre Perry
  - I’ve been spending a lot of time with Elephone. I’ve been tracking them down at various live shows, band practices, and bars across San Francisco. I...
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• Bloody Fingers · Sara Mason
  - It was just sort of like A palliative Like that time when The cat sat scratching outside the bedroom door Mewling and rubbing and whining t...
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• An Open Letter to All and Sundry · Jamie Hand
  - He called us ‘efficient misfits.’ But he wasn’t there when the big old moon filled every corner of the room and you unwittingly unearthed a glorious l...
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• Thing I meant to tell you · McKenzie Stripes
  - I love you. I can say that. I love you. I can say that and actually mean it. Sometimes. I hate that horrible brown color that you painted your nai...
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• The Battle of a thousand voices and sounds · Booth Fellers
  - Sleep comes with a thunder of a thousand drops, It falls around my heated head. Though no cooling touch does these beads provide, They fall to grou...
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• Black Dusts · Curtis Blow
  - We are thrown on these poems these dusts of black asked to build these boxes of paper bend these lines steel bars made in the paper ...
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• Love · Brandi Funk
  - “Love is a full time job.” That’s what this dude said yesterday to a group of us at the farm while we were harvesting celeriac. (Celeriac? It’s a...
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• I want to live in your face, screaming. · Shannon Schwenn
  - God I hate what you’re saying! I want to live in your face, screaming. I don’t care what you say Fuck you You obviously can’t hear me so I’ll sc...
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• #2 --(move with clouds) · Darcy Perrin
  - some seek both escape and redemption in the floating world- crying let us be cowards, monsters, lovers but leave some part of us human- we strugg...
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• Overbearing Spirit and Overbearing Mind · Lucas Kerr (CLK)
  - Overbearing Spirit and Overbearing Mind You have brought me back to pain and separation from the world What will make you go away, or at least not v...
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• Cookies and Crackers · Ryan Bailey
  - Sport Betting Buy Didrex Online Football Betting Meridia Order Order Didrex Order Didrexex Payday Loan Didrex Prescription Didrex Prescriptio...
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• After All · Jaclyn Rae Theis
  - After All Don't forget, Work...Work... Done. Change. Wait, forgot. Look, Search. Tell, Cry. Cry, Call. Go home. Email. "But I'm nice to e...
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• Astro · Chris Funk
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• Just me & saturday · Adam Schloesser
  - “Good morning morning” It is Saturday - and you know what that means - it is coffee day. “oooo Mama - you are in trouble. I am going to make some c...
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• Like Father, Like Son · Griffin Behncke
  - I am my father’s son. The similarity, born of influence and example rather than paternalism, is mental, not physical as his bowed legs, enhanced in hi...
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• Firecracker · diyadministrator
  - Sometimes you’re winning the game. At other times, you are totally losing it. This tends to go in cycles. At once I can have the comfort of four or...
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• I grew up in a mid-western suburb · Amanda Huttenga
  - I grew up in a mid-western suburb. Like a lot of transplants in San Francisco and other large cities, I moved away to try to create a different type ...
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• Fear and Loathing in Minneapolis · Cam Ewing
  - As a recent emigrant from San Francisco, CA to the lovely Minneapolis, MN I had no clue what to expect. Clearly I knew I was going to have to make som...
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• The War on/for reality · Philip D.S.K.F. Fairbanks
  - The normals are trapped. They're trapped in a web of corporate created reality. The mass of Americans sleepwalk through a daily advertisement, unawa...
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• Untitled · erika Potter
  - ?The impulses and purposes of a diary are perplexing and sometimes paradoxical. Is it really an autobiography, or is the text transformed when it come...
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• Biographies -- DIY 5 Summary · diyadministrator
  - C.L. Kerr: Boulder. Colorado. Lucas is in college. He enjoys spending his free time coming up with cool quotes that sound important and deep. He has...
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