Ongoing Compendium of Weird Searches

Highlights from the weird and/or very specific things I have been researching while working on my current project, in roughly the order in which they are relevant to the plot of the thing I am working on, either as specific google search terms or more general names or titles, to be updated until the thing is done:
  • cu languages
    • cu french department
  • list of universities on quarter system united states
  • magickal childe
  • boulder high school
    • boulder high school secret service talent show
    • bob dylan masters of war lyrics
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • portuguese cafe cambridge ma?
    • the dresden dolls
  • savage detectives first us printing
  • Video Station
  • first snow boulder co 2006
  • Columbia Cemetery
  • al jourgensen cu
  • Albums on the Hill
  • astronauts orbit kampus reissue
    • astronauts orbit kampus discogs
  • tulagi theater boulder sandwich shop when
  • moon phase october 30 2006
  • Brigitte Mars
  • boulder quaker meeting
  • louisville co street view
  • community gardens boulder co
  • Goss Grove community garden
  • apple season colorado
    • vegetables in season fall colorado
  • Bolder Boulder 1995
  • bolder boulder 1995 shirt
  • Georgia O'Keeffe Museum mug
  • Margot Adler
  • Doreen Valiente
  • whitehouse.gov petitions 
  • unrepentant nader voter bumper sticker
  • sunset times boulder co october 2006
  • Young Ones us dvd release
  • Edie Sedgwick
    • Factory Girl release date
  • Aeneas in the underworld
    • Google Translate: "I'm tired" English–>Latin
  • Ibn Battuta 
  • Janet Fish
  • kakes studio boulder
  • winter solstice 2006 date
  • 2006 blizzard colorado
    • bvsd academic calendar 2006
    • 2003 blizzard colorado
  • CalTech
  • Gravy Train!!!!!!
  • John Cale "Fear is a Man's Best Friend" 
  • wikipedia
  • Marlene Dietrich filmography
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • jean pierre leaud 1968
  • BMoCA
    • bmoca exhibitions 2006
    • bmoca exhibitions 2007
    • bmoca studio project
    • gary sweeney
  • The Gizmos – "That's Cool (I Respect You More)"
  • arts division thesis deadline reed college 2013
  • swearin
  • Now That's Class
  • maggie nelson the argonauts
    • maggie nelson the argonauts spine
    • maggie nelson the argonauts cover art
  • Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
  • evanston illinois average weather august
  • the artistery
  • portland mercury white fang
  • the whines insane ok
  • Northwestern University Graduate School
    • directions from Northwestern University Graduate School to Ravenswood, Chicago
    • UP-N
    • Metra Chicago
  • occult bookstore evanston ill 
    • Alchemy Arts, Chicago
  • university of pittsburgh academic calendar
  • Cathedral of Learning
    • Nationality Rooms
  • zenger farms
    • seasonal fruits portland oregon 
  •  manic relapse festival
  • new york's all right 
  • daylight savings end 2018

 

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