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Blackbird Spyplane back once again. In today’s sletter we’ve got:
Transfixingly sauced-out footwear for fellas & ladies unafraid to flash a subtly spicy sliver of forefoot.
Sick new Mephisto/Rockportish walking shoes that flash no slivers of foot whatsoever.
A studio visit with a very tight ceramicist & sculptor whose pieces would powerfully enviben a horizontal surface in your home.
Beautiful new natural-dyed shirts.
And more unbeatable recon!
But first —
Before I moved to California, when I still lived in NYC, I rarely drove a car and therefore had far less exposure to Granularly Bewildering Motorist Behaviors (G.B.M.B.s).
Here is a question for my car-driving Spyfriends about one such G.B.M.B. When you are headed down a two-way street and you realize you wanna be going the opposite direction, do you:
1. Hit a three-point turn partway down the block, like a chad, or
2. Continue to the next intersection and do a big sweeping U-turn there, like a weirdo?
From the Spyplane POV, answer 1. is the only acceptable option. Pulling a three-point turn has a bit of bank-job getaway esprit to it — it’s a little opportunity for some quotidian wheelman elegance. What’s more, when you do a three-pointer any pedestrian or motorist nearby can grasp what you’re up to, whereas a U-turn in an intersection is some wild-looking and confusing s--t that will have reasonable people wondering if you are a lunatic before they realize you just drive goofy.
I could see allowing carve-outs for intersection U-turns in those cases where absolutely no one is around to see. But much like no-show socks, the moment anyone else witnesses them, your private shame becomes public, you are putting consternation and anxiousness into the community, and you are in violation.
Wow —