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[jejune]

Last night I was tempted to type up a testimony to my new life in Long Beach as I sat in my dark room, defeated by the lost attempts to buy lamps that were aesthetically tolerable or simply functioning. But even at the time, I knew I was too melancholy to express myself without sounding like a total wiener chump

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[jabberjaw]

What the hell is with the unbearable tackiness of modern lamps? I grew up owning a bankers lamp, and I'll be damned if someone ever tries to replace it with some Pier 1 import, pseudo-retro craplastic (that's crap + plastic; my own coinage). The green bell has a crack and the cord no longer pulls, so I have to plug it or unplug it from the socket