Easy Street Prompts

Prompt 1147: adult swim

2013-06-06T06:00:00.000-05:00

U.S. National Archives

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Prompt 1146: the cooking lesson

2013-06-03T06:00:00.000-05:00

OSU Special Collections and Archives

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Prompt 1145: she was a little different

2013-05-31T06:00:00.000-05:00

Australian War Memorial Collection

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”

― Edith Sitwell

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Prompt 1144: fighting fire

2013-05-30T06:00:00.000-05:00

OSU Special Collections and Archives

“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”

― Giordano Bruno

Prompt 1143: random words and phrases

2013-05-29T06:00:00.000-05:00

vaccination . baseless . disfigured conformist .

elastic . reckless numerology . severed .

debonair benefactor . freewheeling . superimposed

Prompt 1142: that newspaper man

2013-05-28T06:00:00.000-05:00

State Library and Archives of Florida

Prompt 1141: the second wife

2013-05-27T06:00:00.000-05:00

Canaan Cemetery, Marshall, Arkansas

Prompt 1140: fetch the midwife

2013-05-26T06:00:00.000-05:00

State Library and Archives of Florida

Prompt 1139: the lottery

2013-05-25T06:00:00.000-05:00

Prompt 1138: an older woman

2013-05-24T06:00:00.000-05:00

State Library of New South Wales

Prompt 1137: those kitchen boys

2013-05-23T06:00:00.000-05:00

OSU Special Collections and Archives: Commons

"The business, as respected three-star chef Scott Bryan explains it, attracts 'fringe elements', people for whom something in their lives has gone terribly wrong. Maybe they didn't make it through high school, maybe they're running away from something-be it an ex-wife, a rotten family history, trouble with the law, a squalid Third World backwater with no opportunity for advancement. Or maybe, like me, they just like it here. ”

- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Prompt 1136: random words and phrases

2013-05-22T06:00:00.000-05:00

hyperbole . vindicate . renewable dignity .

uniform . unfashionably hardworking . cash .

algebraic cannibalism . circumspect . interruption

Prompt 1135: the surgeon

2013-05-21T06:00:00.000-05:00

OSU Special Collections

Prompt 1134: the jeweler's daughter

2013-05-20T06:00:00.000-05:00

Prompt 1133: the boy who feeds the birds

2013-05-19T06:00:00.000-05:00

State Library of New South Wales Collection

"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Prompt 1132: the girl who found herself

2013-05-18T06:00:00.000-05:00

Prompt 1131: running the gauntlet

2013-05-17T06:00:00.000-05:00

Musee McCord Museum

Prompt 1130: look both ways

2013-05-16T06:00:00.000-05:00

Prompt 1129: random words and phrases

2013-05-15T06:00:00.000-05:00

reclaimed . cornered . conditional evangelical .

advertisement . sacred backswing . aspirin .

identical armor . compartmentalized . larva

Prompt 1128: handling snakes

2013-05-14T06:00:00.000-05:00

Prompt 1127: asking for it

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Prompt 1126: and the pretty girls waved

2013-05-12T06:00:00.000-05:00

Powerhouse Museum Collection

Prompt 1125: diagnosis: boredom

2013-05-11T06:00:00.000-05:00

Prompt 1124: those Tupperware ladies

2013-05-10T06:00:00.000-05:00

State Library and Archives of Florida

"Sales representatives in "spacettes" costume pose before the rocket entrance way of Tupperware Home Parties Inc.: Orlando, Florida...The company's 1960 jubilee for top sales personnel in the eastern section of the U.S. was a space-age program." From Flickr and Florida Memory.

Prompt 1123: the restorer

2013-05-09T06:00:00.000-05:00

Nationaal Archief

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again."

William Faulkner, The Paris Review, spring 1956