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"flotsam" Definitions
  1. parts of boats, pieces of wood or rubbish, etc. that are found on land near the sea or floating on the sea; any kind of rubbish
  2. people who have no home or job and who move from place to place, often rejected by society

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From soupy flotsam to giant mould blooms, the interiors were hideous.
The Spirit of Radio "Flotsam and jetsam," Weiss says of this assemblage.
Historical figures aren't human flotsam, swirling into public awareness at random intervals.
It showed a stretch of ocean completely clogged with brightly colored plastic flotsam.
It's been terrible for this kind of flotsam-and-jetsam solar and infrastructure play.
History is awkward and hard to grasp -- flotsam and jetsam on a stormy sea.
Other flotsam and jetsam IPOs will be sprinkled in between those launches, Cramer said.
The soldiers monitoring the foggy scene thought it was flotsam, perhaps a small ball.
And then there were the paintings sticking out of the debris like so much flotsam.
Hew Locke adorns model vessels — from an imperial galleon to a refugee skiff — in flotsam.
You seem to collect little bits of flotsam from nature, leaves and twigs and seeds.
The glistening flotsam of thousands of plastic bottles caught in fishnets stretched above our heads.
Brandt's sufferers are all over the place, human flotsam and jetsam in messy, dirty, intolerable situations.
My skepticism washed away like flotsam being lifted from a quiet beach by a rising tide.
Furniture, flotsam and other debris had been blown into the surviving westernmost wall of the restaurant.
Comey portrayed the broken rules as mere flotsam, or debris that floats away after a shipwreck.
Its oceans and islands are littered with resources, but many of these are scrap or flotsam.
Often the devices consist of little more than plastic and bamboo flotsam strung together with old nets.
Flotsam and jetsam, especially plastic bags and one-use containers, cover the shoreline of the Australian island.
I don't mean the kind of drawer with snacks and candy mixed in with other kitchen flotsam.
The children stood on the few remaining floor planks, straddling the gulf where the flotsam had accumulated.
Lately, people have become big fat whiners, complaining about the way that Kardashian flotsam dominates their newsfeed.
When the Islamic State tide went out, Hadizha, 8, was found like flotsam in a Mosul street.
It was literary flotsam, a poem I hadn't heard of and couldn't place in time or tradition.
Before-and-after photos The flotsam from the storm provides a window into the lives it overturned.
The prevailing currents cause flotsam from around the world to accumulate in a vast becalmed patch of ocean.
One solution is to create a subfolder directly off the desktop for all this digital flotsam and jetsam.
Such material is considered flotsam, and residents of the islands have a centuries-old tradition of collecting it.
What are we supposed to do with all this fucked-up cultural flotsam we inherited from the past?
This is the sort of thing that the New-York Historical Society saves: flotsam, jetsam, things left behind.
Waves, wind and flotsam drift in with the breeze and tide, somehow drawn to the island's singular existence.
Instead, their voices poke into our consciousness in shards, like flotsam and jetsam carried by a rushing stream.
And the income we did have coming in was like random flotsam, not the life raft we needed.
"Detritus at sea" is indeed both FLOTSAM and JETSAM, which incidentally provided the Scrabbly FJ for 9A's FJORD.
The "Surplus," most of whom live on houseboats in "Flotsam Towns," have scratchy blankets, thought control and degradation.
My closet was full of the flotsam of tried-and-failed ergonomic cushions, massaging implements, and foam rollers.
It is the exact sort of paper-thin, cheaply licensed flotsam that fools grandparents and kindergarteners across the country.
Trump's hands are their own, clinging on to the flotsam and jetsam as the future's lonely tide breaks change.
But an Ex Box, a designated storage spot for the flotsam and jetsam of partners past, is Kim's solution.
The import of the report can be summed up in Comeyesque terms as the distinction between flotsam and jetsam.
Every white cap is a head sticking out of the water, every piece of flotsam is a dorsal fin.
It also speaks to a uniquely human need to endow pretty much everything with human qualities — animals, iPads, flotsam.
Birders flocked to Nickerson to get glimpses of hundreds of shearwaters unsuccessfully fighting wind and fog, like flapping flotsam.
The photo has gone viral, often accompanied by a Turkish hashtag that translates, in English, as 'flotsam of humanity.
After all, we'd already cycled through such wafer-thin small-screen flotsam as ­Charlie's Angels, The A-Team, and CHiPs.
What mattered was how an individual life illuminated literature and vice versa, not the flotsam and facticity of someone's days.
This was who, a pronoun that acknowledges our humanity, our personhood, separating us from the flotsam and jetsam out there.
After sifting through mountains of Xbox flotsam and jetsam, Van Cleave talked the recyclers into letting him take home five motherboards.
He was even joined by Ursula's dark eel minions Flotsam and Jetsam in matching jumpsuits with metallic jackets and winged sunglasses.
There are license plates, buoys, toilets, a rusty bicycle, the leg of a Santa costume, and various other flotsam and jetsam.
"A lot of wingers are desperately hanging on to Trump as flotsam in a tsunami," Ms. Coulter said in an interview.
Wiesner is the only living three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal — for "Tuesday" (1991), "The Three Pigs" (2001) and "Flotsam" (43).
It has designed a system to trawl for plastic in the vast mid-ocean gyres where currents funnel all manner of flotsam.
This is a band that worships Overkill, Nuclear Assault, and Flotsam and Jetsam as much as they do Judas Priest and Motorhead.
Among the flotsam are prescription drugs, family photos, encyclopedias, toys, rugs, TV, cabinets, mattresses, children's clothing, soggy food and even an upright piano.
There's more grit than glamour to Manhattan's theater district these days, between the body-painted desnudas and Dave & Busters flotsam littering the gutters.
It all started in 2009, with a Swaziland local magazine distributor called Flotsam who wanted to put all their wasted paper to use.
"I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life which surrounds him," he said.
Which is to say some hardcore slingers of Pizzagate flotsam aren't even real people, just Twitter bots designed to get the theory trending.
Take, for example, all the weird celebrity flotsam that has been auctioned off on the site since it launched way back in 1995.
Modern usage of the word has taken it from an apology to another piece of verbal flotsam that has little or no meaning.
He was fond of what he called mudlarking, collecting flotsam and junk from the banks of the Thames to incorporate into his pieces.
Many other survivors simply jumped into the flaming waters around the ship with only life preservers, flotsam or mattresses to keep them afloat.
It's fitting, then, that her partner aims to fill the void: Takahashi often produces the fragile flotsam that Wada places inside the cubes.
Moreover, that time has come largely at the expense of flotsam at the end of their bench, rather than from other highly skilled players.
Fortunately, the lesson is simple -- they should ignore the social media flotsam rather than provide a platform for those who feast on the famous.
And it is part of a long global quest by many that has left money and dashed aspirations scattered like flotsam on the beach.
Digital intimacy may bring us closer, but once the intimacy itself has faded, the digital flotsam that remains is no longer connected to another human.
THIS year marks the 21970th anniversary of the start of the democratic wave that swept over Latin America and turned military dictators into political flotsam.
For Mr. Weizman, the "image flotsam," as he calls it, can be as confounding as it can be useful and it needs to be assembled.
The family were the flotsam of colonialism, cultural castaways, the very type of people that Naipaul would make the subject of his fiction and reporting.
He went to the port in his hometown of Seattle and photographed the big mounds of plastic flotsam that had washed up along the shore.
GOOGLE DRIVE My professional and personal life is such that I have amassed a substantial collection of documents, voice recordings, photographs, and other digital flotsam.
His mother and sisters who remained there, watching daily for things that could fall from the sky: bombs, pieces of aircraft, the flotsam of war.
The biggest of these is located halfway between California and Hawaii—and so littered with flotsam that it has been nicknamed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Along with Branch Technology, a firm that applies 23D-printing technology to real-world projects, SHoP will present Flotsam & Jetsam, a public plaza at the entrance.
I liked that the phone arrived with only a small number of essential apps, rather than the sea of flotsam that typically ships with Samsung phones.
He needed furniture and, realizing the streets were littered with wood from the flood's flotsam, he started building wooden signs with imagery screen-printed on top.
"The only hard fact that has swum like flotsam from the Bermuda Triangle of Labour's Brexit policy is that they want more delay," Mr. Johnson said.
Not only does she turn the discarded flotsam of contemporary existence into superb objects, but Cook then brings those vivid assemblages to life through stop-motion animation.
Makemake is way out in the Kuiper belt, a region of space beyond Neptune that's full of comets and asteroids and other bits of icy space flotsam.
Thanks to Netflix's Stranger Things and that show's exhumation of the geekier pop culture flotsam and jetsam of the Reagan era, what's old is suddenly new again.
It takes most people years to develop a meditation practice that yields even the most rudimentarily friendly attitude towards all the flotsam floating around in their heads.
We had any number of inside jokes, bonded over ex-boyfriends, career angst, and the usual flotsam that are the seedlings for a deep and lasting friendship.
In the seabeds of St. Martin, the damage left by Hurricane Irma in 2017 is still visible in broken coral fronds and the flotsam of damaged vessels.
The floors are tiled in bright geometric patterns; the walls are covered in old family photos and various vintage flotsam, backed by colorful paint in primary colors.
Listen to Coffinworm's "Blood Born Doom" or Burning Witch's "Country Doctor" through good headphones, and you'll feel like flotsam on a wave that's breaking in slow motion.
From age 17 to 23 he was on the seas, and he probably picked up from fellow sailors the practice of whittling flotsam into small wood figurines.
I thought of the waves of sleep rushing through their brains, washing out the tiny unimportant flotsam of today so that tomorrow's heavier truths could wash in.
Untold tonnes end up as irretrievable ocean flotsam, which sunlight and salt fragment into microscopic pieces that attract toxins and may be gulped by creatures that become seafood.
The boom and the skirt would together create an artificial coastline that would accumulate flotsam riding the gyre's currents, eventually forming a sort of shoreline of concentrated trash.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Ian Andrewes, a coach for the Canadian sailing team, thought he had seen every type of flotsam and jetsam in his years on the water.
This means they are fundamentally grappling with a big data problem—they're looking for a single signal sent by ET floating on a vast ocean of radio flotsam.
Marina, the reader concludes, is not a true revolutionary; she is tossed like flotsam by great events, and the novel would benefit were she more of a participant.
Where did a time go when quirky, eccentric, free people might drift up like so much beautiful flotsam on a fragile sandbar 60 miles out in the Atlantic?
Where did a time go when quirky, eccentric, free people might drift up like so much beautiful flotsam on a fragile sandbar 60 miles out in the Atlantic?
The Earth is quite literally enveloped in a cloud of cosmic flotsam that ranges from naturally occurring particles of space dust to the jettisoned fairings from rocket launches past.
The Internet is filled with junk any given year, but election years are especially overrun with political flotsam, whether it's your cousin's Facebook rantings or a surprise Google result.
The "great Pacific garbage patch", an Alaska-sized ocean gyre in the north Pacific Ocean, where currents channel all manner of flotsam, may contain 79,000 tonnes of plastic debris.
And who else was to blame that we Surplus were now required by law to have AutoHouses, which were for the most part Auto- Houseboats, collected into Flotsam Towns?
And despite the notion that youth culture today eschews things for experiences, Nahm, Law and Beland all say there's a brisk business in the flotsam and jetsam of cultural curiosities.
He draws the way that Teddy's personal devastation becomes just another piece of news-cycle flotsam, seized by readers eager to find some secret narrative behind the simple, sad one.
But, as the new film demonstrates, he still enjoys bumping into Surrealist flotsam (note the parrot who does coke) and lazing in doldrums of narrative where next to nothing happens.
There is something quite tender in the way the aerial web indeed "cradles" these disparate objects (some quite heavy), literally as well as figuratively elevating this collection of ignoble flotsam.
"I love big-box stores," he said, inspecting a work composed of tables with surreal, precisely arranged tableaus of big-box flotsam and jetsam, which also appear in his videos.
Comprised of the flotsam and lagan of the sea-steading movement, the company was designed to hold onto shell corporations, vessels, and equipment for the eventual full nation-state wither.
Today the Plaza is a grand-facade boutique hotel and retail space under pretentious deluxe apartments owned by the kind of affluent global flotsam who fake their children's SAT scores.
Wurtz's flotsam and jetsam can be somewhat dizzying, an endless parade of wire, safety pins, styrofoam, cardboard, string, detergent bottle tops, plastic, and odds and ends of every conceivable kind.
The basic or guaranteed income is a curious piece of intellectual flotsam that has washed ashore several times in the past half-millennium, often during periods of great economic upheaval.
Such gestures are a departure from Cage, who generally allowed tonal materials only as meaningless flotsam and jetsam, and from his ally Morton Feldman, who treated them as melancholy relics.
Like Dada artists who repurposed the commercial flotsam of the past with scissors and glue, the collage of soulless muzak, retro advertising, and commercial pop reflected a culture at peak absurdity.
The performance in its totality is really Shawkat's alone — the men so much passing flotsam, a few amusingly embarrassed, others eager to impress, still others too stiff to make an impression.
Much of this digital flotsam is no longer accessible in its original form, and if if is, it is not easily viewed, preserved in museums and research centers around the world.
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Or was he simply flotsam, a man whose life, The New York Times wrote in 1970, "stands as a monument to parental neglect and the failure of the public correctional system"?
Its mission was so top-secret that Navy command did not know it was out there, so they did not send help until a plane spotted the human flotsam four days later.
Her desk is littered with the flotsam of washed-up attempts to get that beach bod: a NutriBullet, a copy of Honestly Healthy, a fruit-infusing water bottle, a box of Dorset Cereal.
It's a resignation to stay vigilant, prepare for some more of Pink's emotional flotsam to wash up on the shore literally whenever, and reassess their expectations of what happily ever after looks like.
Whether the contracts dictate it or it's simply the path of least resistance, teams in San Diego's situation usually weigh down a healthy chunk of its lineup with milquetoast veterans or dead-end flotsam.
The use of materials that ordinarily would be thrown away resonates with Mr. Lockett's concerns for humans and animals who all too often end up as flotsam and jetsam in the wake of history.
The second part is absolutely true: Recruiting is a slimy, disgusting game in which schools often treat treat teenagers kids like disposable flotsam, while teenagers are usually vilified whenever they act the same way.
Warm ocean waters suddenly teem with trillions of eggs and sperm that swirl in the currents and merge to form new life, a profligate frenzy that can leave the ocean's surface awash in pink flotsam.
Inside a soundproof room with egg-crate walls and eggplant-colored carpeting, the flotsam of creative efforts was scattered around: drums, amps, pedals, a percussion gourd, a disco ball, an eight-foot-tall stuffed giraffe.
The latest debris is the third part to be formally identified as from the plane, although the Malaysian government has said additional pieces of flotsam have washed up along the coast of several African nations.
Whose day was harder, whose parenting technique was better, who was responsible for cleaning the flotsam at the bottom of the garbage can — all of these conflicts could be branded or rebranded to his advantage.
They get overdose calls for people living inside the Edenton Rural School, a shuttered brick schoolhouse where officers have cleared away signs of meth production and found the flotsam of drug use on the floors.
Shipping is also relatively infrequent there and, the authors write, there is no reason to think that flotsam or jetsam in the Arctic would be so much higher than in other parts of the world.
The true wisdom (or folly) of the crowd is on full display every day in Reddit's community of users posting about the flotsam, jetsam and icebergs that shape the 24-hour Internet news (or hype) cycle.
The film's individual scenes feel emotionally restrained, but they are all linked by the sound and image of the sea pounding, engulfing and tossing bits of flotsam — a doll, a life jacket, snapshots — on its surface.
Arriving in Missouri at age 29 with a lifetime's worth of rough outings in Minnesota and Cincinnati already behind him, Lohse was both not good and pretty old in ballplayer years—more flotsam than reclamation project.
It's a great antidote to the presentism bias that envelops us, in which we mistake the latest and the loudest — the flotsam of opinion atop social media streams — for the most important, most insightful, most relevant.
While in Lebanon, Steiner and Lenzlinger collected detritus — both organic and otherwise — from the gallery's surrounding area, as well as from the far-flung Bisri and Bekaa valleys, arranging this flotsam and jetsam into delicate, spidery mobiles.
Opened by two brothers who had spent some time in the islands off the coast of Peninsular Malaysia, it has tree trunks as decorations, the flotsam and jetsam of a beach shack, and music that's consistently reggae.
While much of the ire has been directed at how riders leave hundreds of the scooters strewn about sidewalks and streets like abandoned flotsam, there's another scourge: Emergency rooms are taking in lots of people with scooter injuries.
But a core group of House Republicans who gave Mr. Ryan a pass back then now say they want to toss those numbers out like so much flotsam and pass their own budget with far tighter spending restrictions.
Jean Louis Sabaji's froth of stormy sea foam billowing about the mannequin's feet is a standout, as is a beautifully washed-up gown by Rodarte with castoff netting dripping over floaty flotsam tulle upon which water flowers float.
No faux distressing, nothing to suggest the shirt is some kind of residual flirty flotsam from the wreck of a galleon carrying a boon of bedazzlers, and also no god damn capped sleeves, you can't roll those things.
But it is his assemblages he is best known for: disturbing and yet humorous sculptures collaged from furniture, doll parts, jewelry, candles, mandalas and whatever other flotsam on the slipstream of late-20th-century culture caught his eye.
Must it be stamped with one's own personality or bear the temperamental visage of the one for whom it is intended, or shall it be merely a snatch out of the flotsam and jetsam of the holiday season?
If we are to have ideas, they will have to flow through the radically narrow perspective that Knausgaard has established, floating alongside the rest of life's flotsam: all those cigarettes smoked, all those feelings hurt, all those books read.
The only thing a hockey goalie has going for him is that he gets to wear every pad known to man and carry a stick that looks like a piece of flotsam that washed up from a crashed sailboat.
But oddly, the archaeologists found nothing else — no shards of pottery or other flotsam and jetsam of everyday existence — that would suggest that people had once lived there (and perhaps had been forced to flee by rising sea levels).
While the dredge did its work, the crew on duty on the Carolina Queen sorted through the muddy mix of rocks and sand and other flotsam on the ship's deck, looking for the wavy round shells of the scallops.
Seamlessly integrating meticulous woodcarving with car parts from the nearby auto repair shops and other flotsam, artists Guyodo (Frantz Jacques), Evel Romain, Jean Herard Celeur, and André Eugène construct chimerical hybrids that invoke death and eroticism in equal measures.
Puerto Rico is a battered vestige of what it was just a few hours ago, with vegetation stripped from trees, hundreds of houses smashed to tinder sticks, and streets filled with the flotsam and jetsam left behind by catastrophic floods.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's been just over a year since the launch of Art in Ad Places, a guerrilla project to replace a small fraction of the flotsam of display advertising filling the New York cityscape with art.
Jacobs's spring collection, for example, was a globalized, turbaned bricolage of different eras and locales, eluding facile categorization — an eccentric ancient-modern tribe beyond identification, a vision of a nativeless world, with a single culture created from the flotsam of many.
With his use of vernacular and castoff materials, including salvaged oil-field pipe and jute rope, Goff simultaneously anticipated the age of sustainable architecture and enshrined the flotsam of American industry and mass-product design, elevating everyday items to decorative art.
His team may be flawed, but he is hardly working with flotsam: Only a handful of managers in the world would not gladly swap their squad for Mourinho's collection of World Cup-winners and league champions and $100 million strikers.
But a fixed power segment with the backdrop of a "fabulous" aviation division and a "very good" health care business would put GE in a good position, Cramer said, along with other "flotsam and jetsam" that need to be shrunk or sold.
While El Greco's work had to wait until the kindred spirits of Romanticism and Modernism came along, Oldenburg's — based on the castoff and the crude, on the flotsam and jetsam of modern life — was a hit from the beginning with his contemporaries.
But Parsons was also an artist in her own right: She produced colorful canvases inspired by nature and the spiritual realm and small sculptures made from the flotsam found on the beach near her home on the North Shore of Long Island.
Some of the boss fights, like the one with the leviathan-like kayran just outside the dusty, grimy town of Flotsam, still stick out in my head as some of the most fun boss fights I've ever played in any video game.
A very particular, very millennial breed of simmering downtempo pours through your laptop speakers; muffled drum machine pitter, a few lazy nocturnal synth beams, perhaps an entranced, elliptical vocal sample sourced from self-help tapes, ancient cartoons, Nintendo 64 games, or public-access flotsam.
The images that come through in the news — the plastic-stuffed guts of dead whales, the seahorse gripping a pink cotton bud — are merely the flotsam and jetsam of the waste we produce, particularly as Western consumers in a world of waste-collection and landfill.
Although the story, at sixty-one pages, is almost novella length, it proceeds like much of Hempel's fiction, which is to say, mysteriously: it seems to be made of nothing very much, just fictive flotsam, stray observations and aperçus that the author is arranging.
In the case of one aging reactor in southern New Jersey, rising waters came within inches of breaching flood walls, and portable pumps and hoses were brought in to provide water for the reactors when the cooling system's intake valves were clogged with flotsam.
Barring a clear official identification, research on the animals tucked inside could help confirm whether the flotsam originated some 5,000 miles (8,000 km) away – more than double the distance from Canada to Mexico, said John Chapman, a biologist from Oregon State University who is testing the samples.
The trail winds along the shore and weaves back among the trees, then crosses cobbled beaches where storms have milled the rough edges from stones and hurled them high above the tideline (they've also tossed flotsam ashore in a few spots, especially lobster gear and plastic bottles).
The sun has not yet risen when they arrive at the hostel that will be their new home for the next six months: 137 women in 15 unfurnished rooms, every inch covered with girlish flotsam, underwear and bras drying on the window grates, sentimental verses penciled on the walls.
The talent level is increasing, too: The same place that occasionally produced roster flotsam like Yurendell DeCaster, Ivanon Coffie and Wladimier Balentin now churns out major league cornerstones like Andrelton Simmons, Kenley Jansen, Jonathan Schoop, and Didi Gregorious, who was born in Amsterdam but moved to the island at age five.
If she was okay, or sleeping, sometimes he would fish, settled against a tree on the riverbank, a small can of worms beside him, the line lying slack in the slow, muddy river current, flotsam piled in the eddies, empty milk jugs and beer cans and tiny sticks and trash.
Alongside Erin, who makes a wry and amusing narrator, we learn an array of new skills, including how to open a Swiss bank account with wads of cash, how to destroy hotel surveillance footage, how to alter electronic records, and how to understand the crucial legal difference between flotsam and jetsam.
We went to the New Museum a couple of weeks ago to see the Pipilotti Rist exhibition, and though at first we were overwhelmed by the waves of sensory information washing over us, we eventually managed to step back, relax, and enjoy the experience of being swept away in Rist's optical flotsam.
Three weeks before the start of racing at the Rio Olympics, three top medal prospects from the highly ranked German sailing team told Reuters on Tuesday that plastic bags and bottles, floating logs, the occasional dead dog and other flotsam will make what is already one of the most challenging Olympic sailing venues even harder.
Iceland is melting: See climate change in 360˚ Pebble causes new ripples of worry At the other end of the state, our little plane lands on a beach covered in driftwood, flotsam and the paw prints of creatures great and small: bears, wolves, foxes and a handful of humans hoping to protect it from invasion.
Pick up cotton sarongs at Kealopiko; handcrafted jewelry made with found items like shark teeth, sea glass and sunrise shells edged in 24-karat gold at Flotsam & Co.; and greeting cards drawn by local artists at Mori, where you also might spot some vinyl by Dick Dale or Maryanne Ito, among the eclectic offerings.
If there are a million songs out there and we find one of them that really means something to us, we should savor it, rather than allowing that which we might find truly worthwhile to simply slip back into the flotsam and jetsam of the stream, simply in search of the next hit of experience.
Scattered throughout are ­Lueders's ceramics, mostly plates and vases, which were made in situ, as well as Sacret Young's abstract photographs of Greek landscapes, and the flotsam of a free-spirited life: bits and pieces of handmade bricolage, wicker baskets filled with crockery for picnics, candle stubs on the dining room table, vases filled with freshly cut wildflowers.
Soon after he arrived in New York, from Los Angeles, in 1974, Mr. Hammons began his practice of creating work whose simplicity belied its conceptual weight: sculptures rendered from the flotsam of the black experience — barbershop clippings and chicken wing bones and bottle caps bent to resemble cowrie shells — dense with symbolism and the freight of history.
He could disquiet conservative elders—as with a show, "All the Meat You Can Eat," that he curated in SoHo, in 22012, of postcards, news and police photographs, pornography, advertising images, and other visual flotsam, including snapshots that he had taken with a Mick-A-Matic, a plastic camera shaped like Mickey Mouse—but he seems never to have met with serious resistance.
A radiant Greek woman (Katerina Misichroni) struggles to protect her debt-squeezed restaurant from a pushy developer while caring for an amnesiac British D.J. Around them, a flotsam of idiosyncratic travelers — a Yeats-quoting Libyan refugee; a Turkish drug dealer-cum-baker — ebbs and flows, saddled with naïvely hackneyed dialogue and a director who seems to be entertaining only himself.
The room is cluttered with the flotsam and jetsam of a curious man — or a man who for years was deprived of possessions: stacks of printed material neatly piled on tables and a small desk, including books, magazines, fliers and store brochures; a quiver of small American and South Korean flags; an empty Starbucks cup; pill bottles; a paper Burger King crown.
With any wave, needless to say, you get the flotsam, and I am now in possession of a board game all about gin, a pack of gin playing cards—for gin rummy, I guess—and, grimmest of all, a bag of crumbly Pink Gin Fudge, which is slightly less appetizing than a bar of soap but costs five times as much.
The Lakers are bad but gifted, with a rising off guard who can defend multiple positions (Kentavious Caldwell-Pope), a prodigious pass-always rookie (Lonzo Ball), a budding blue-chipper on the wing (Brandon Ingram), limited flotsam that's flashed usefulness here and there (Jordan Clarkson, Larry Nance Jr., Julius Randle) up and down the roster, and once-crafty veterans who may no longer have any use in a winning environment (Luol Deng, Corey Brewer).
All the usual things, of course, like putting a plastic bag over your head (death by suffocation), walking around in wet underpants, swimsuits, or bikini bottoms (death by bladder infection), twisting a tick the wrong way when detaching it from the skin (death by blood poisoning), going swimming less than an hour after eating (death by cramps), accepting rides from strangers (death by kidnapping, rape, murder), taking candy from strangers (death by poisoning, possibly kidnapping, rape, murder) — but there were also other dangers specific to Hammars: Never touch the flotsam that washed up on the beach below the house, liquor bottles, packs of cigarettes, shampoo bottles, tin cans with labels in foreign languages, foreign lettering, don't touch, don't sniff, and for God's sake don't drink (death by poisoning), don't sit in a draft (death by catching a cold), don't catch a cold (death by expulsion from Hammars), don't sit in the drying closet (death by suffocation, possibly electrocution), don't be late (if you showed up late, death would be a consolation, death was, if anything, the only valid excuse for a lack of punctuality).

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