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Well, we wouldn't want you to go running around not knowing how to say the words or what the words mean...

eristikös
[EEE+rest+TEAK+hose]
The ancient Hellenic word from which the modern adjective "eristic" derives itself; both are defined in the dictionary as meaning controversial. A brave title for this little warehouse and its contents.

bare wire
"When the room is dark and the mic is on, then she closes her eyes and plugs into the box that is her heart. Soft flesh turns to thin metal. Current crackles through her. She is charged and she is unsheathed. Listener be advised: careful what you touch."

disobedia
[dis-o-BEE-dee-ya]
Dare to speak your mind regarding issues of our time, to question, to think. An editorial column, a counter offensive act, a form of civil disobedience, a modest meme vector.

exsanguinate
[ex-PENguin-ate; but san instead of pen]
From the Latin "ex" meaning out, "sanguis" meaning blood, and "ate" meaning to perform the act of, exsanguinate means to drain of blood. And if blood is the metaphorical essence of the body and words, the essence of thought, then exsanguinate may well describe the ritual of passionate writing.

gravitas
[grah-vee-TOSS]
Latin for heaviness and the word from which we get "gravity." And what is gravity? It is the force of attraction by which bodies tend to fall to earth. It is heaviness. It is something critical. It is seriousness, dignity, solemnity. It is a damn good title for weighty words.

urethane
"Thin as the line between introduction and obsession. Thin as the line between together and apart, between acquisition and loss, between satiation and deprivation. Thin as a sheet of clear plastic bag...one minute baby is alive, next minute baby is dead." Music duo.

vertebrae
"Creature frozen in mid-motion, fingernails dug into the earth's stone. Died, its back arched, its skin torn, bones left blanching in the sun, brittle against the wind, rotten by the rain. What parasite comes to live inside the desiccated flesh of its belly?" Vertebrae to ponder architecture.

wiremnky
[wire-MON-key]
An organism with significantly impaired social skills attributable to a lack of crucial nurturing during critical pre-pubescent emotional development; slang derived from a relatively obscure psychological experiment with rheseus monkeys. And were this organism human, his mind full of thoughts and sounds? Perhaps he would speak to the world while hiding behind a wall full of technology, all the while rocking and twitching nervously...

debris
From the Old French "debrisier" meaning to break down, debris is defined as rubbish or as an accumulation of fragments. A self-deprecating title for the not so pretty things we must sometimes do to pay rent. Included in our repetoire of services: webpage design, xeriscape design, architectural modelbuilding, signage fabrication, prototype fabrication, banner sewing, graphic design, and desktop publishing.



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