Furniture Reporter

Before we can move to Nairobi, we need to off-load excess stuff. If we lived anywhere else, we’d have a garage or yard sale, but alas, in NYC the only option is a sidewalk sale (we don’t even have a stoop). This sidewalk sale will take place (in the real world) on July 5th (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at or around 15 W. 74th St. Apt 8a, between Central Park West and Columbus, in the shadow of the San Remo. In the meantime though, if you see anything you like just contact us and if it’s small enough we can send it to you, or if it’s big enough, then we can arrange to show it if you can pick it up.

All proceeds from this Goat Rodeo Sale go to supporting our goatly cause, which is to say it will support our relocation to Nairobi where Jess will be working for the Millennium Villages project and Derek will be running Calamari Press and Sleepingfish and probably continuing to work for the villages project in some capacity. And of course it will go towards raising our goat Sancho. If you make a significant purchase, we will give you updates on the goat you helped to finance, though we actually can’t promise we will have a physical goat. It’s more the idea of a goat that drives us.

With out further ado, here’s what we are getting rid of that hopefully you can find a home for. It’s basically all of our wordly possessions we have accrued since living in NYC. All prices are negotiable and we will consider any offer. A good starting point is this video walk-though of our apartment showing what we are selling:

1. Captain’s Bed (full, w/ 4 drawers two on either side). $150 or b.o. Like almost all the furniture here, we got it at Gothic Cabinet Craft. They rock. We are not leaving til end of July, but you can take the bed now if you want, and we’ll just sleep on the floor. I’m assuming you don’t want the mattress. That’s kind of gross:

2. Flimsy bookshelf. Ceramic jaguar not included. Hell, we found it on the sidewalk somewhere, we’ll give it back for free to whoever wants it:

3. Narrow-smaller bookshelves. We have quite a few assorted ones. Lets just say $30 each for these ones:

4. This one’s a bit bigger and nicer, lets say it’s $40 to not confuse with the others:

5. Little tile-surfaced bedside table (or whatever you want to do with it), $25:

6. Pine chest. $40. Perfect for storing those unsightlies away:

7. Various sporting items we kept stored in above pine chest, tennis rackets ($20 each), yoga mats (ok, gross enough to have for free), barbell weights ($20 for the set of them).

8. Baby Taylor Guitar, with case. $60. Hardly used :(

9. Sony 16″ TV. It’s not flat-screen, but it works and it’s only $30:

10. Sony DVD player. $30:

11. Bureau/Chest of drawers. $50. It’s big. That’s my head I stuck in there for perspective.

12. Tall CD Rack. $25. Just the rack. I’ll get to the CDs later.

13. Magazine basket. I don’t know, how bout $5.

14. Small chest of drawers. $40. Yes, that’s an In Rainbows boxset next to it. Definitely not included.

15. 5-piece pub-style Dining Set, $200:

16. An 18″ ViewSonic flat-screen monitor, $40.

17. Studio Day Sofas. Ends fold down to form comfy futon bed. We have two of them, $200 each. Also comes with extra covers so you can have them olive-gray or white, or mixed:

18. Two NYC commuter bikes, with u-locks, chains, helmets, pump, lights, bells, etc. The bikes are kind of spoken for, not sure about the rest of the stuff. But each bike with accessories is $50.

19. Small Desk with drawers. Big enough for a Jess. $50.

20. Bar desk, it’s technically a bar, but I use it as a stand up desk. The top came off and it’s not supposed to, it’s just setting on top. You could nail it back on if you set your mind to it. The other side is bookshelves. $50, w/backed-barstool:

21. HP 1012 printer. $20. It has served me well, had it since the beginning of Calamari Press.

22. HP 2600N, color laserjet tower printer, $50. Sorry the photo is upside-down, not sure how that happened. It’s pretty new, I’ve had it less than a year.

23. TV stand with built-in DVD/CD rack, $30.

24. Wood file cabinet, $40.

25. Very tall (roughly 6 foot with 6 shelves) bookshelf, what I use for storing Calamari inventory. Unfinished. $40:

26. Solid wood butcher block. With drawer and built-in wine rack, on wheels, $150:

27. Sharp Microwave, $40:

28. Krupps coffeemaker ($10), blender ($20) and toaster ($10). Obviously we can’t part with coffeemaker til the day we leave!

29. This is where things start to get good. CDs. Lots of them. $2 each, at least ’til the good ones are gone. These and the books are available through mail if you paypal me at this address. Add $1 each postage if so, at least for the first 2-3. We’ll make you a deal if you buy a lot.

30. And last but not least, books. These are hard to say, the smaller cheap books $1, if they’re bigger or hardback or art books, than $3 or $5. No reasonable offer refused, especially the more you buy. Again, these are available by paypal (to this address) Add $1 or $2 for each book depending on how big they are. And don’t be offended if you see your book in here. I don’t keep books in general, I think it means a lot more to pass them on than have then sit in storage or on someone’s shelf. And also, the top book “Phaic Tan” is like the funniest book ever.

There will be more stuff than I can mention here at the physical sidewalk sale. Basically we’re selling every thing that isn’t digital or that we won’t wear on our backs in Africa. I will also have Calamari Press books there for sale at a discount, including the new Sleepingfish ($10) and my forthcoming book Marsupial (free to anyone that shows up and says “Goat Rodeo”). Again the sidewalk sale is on July 5th, 9 am to 6 PM at 15 W. 74th St. Apt 8a. If you get lost or want to arrange to pick something up, call us 917.306.8259.

Sorry guys couldn’t get on all day and since it is about to start a new day I can’t update my Events page. I know how to do the event though! Here’s the steps:

1: You have to get the key which is in Fatherings Meadow
2: You have to go Wildwood Glen and unlock the cage which is way back
3: Then it will give you some furniture!

I can’t remember how or where I stumbled across Timothy Adams, but I knew immediately that I had to share these rare and beautiful pieces of art. Mr. Adams hand cuts each piece from American Steel. Other metals such as aluminum and copper are mixed here and there. Below is a sample of his amazing work.



Click here to visit his Etsy store and don’t forget to visit his blog as well.

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