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Preface

15 years ago I started a Facebook group for my fellow Fruit Stand coworkers who appreciated the indispensable “black stick” we used all the time for all kinds of stuff around the store (and at home). I thought it might be nice to have this somewhere not-facebook, so here’s the legend of The Cult of the Black Stick.

Chapter One: The Legend of The Black Stick.

Once upon a time, there was a need, a dire need for a tool that one could use to poke, to prod, and to pry. This void languished unfilled, until The Great Menda brought forth The Black Stick. And with this, the Technicians were able to go forth and toil at their tasks with much ease and convenience, for no longer did they need to use Blunt Objects or Harsh Drivers to pry and scrape, for now they had The Black Stick.

The Black Stick continues to bring prosperity and convenience to its users to this day.

The Black Stick asks nothing from the Technicians who wield it, yet gives all, often sacrificing itself in times of need. Give back to The Black Stick and show your appreciation of its Wonder by joining this group, and you will be handsomely rewarded.

In the eyes of The Black Stick, there is no inequality or injustice, and The Black Stick has decreed that all shall be welcome to become Officers of this Group. Allow yourself to send forth a message to mine inbox and ye shall be so exalted.

Chapter Two: The Legend of The Black Stick continues…

For once, when all was good and right with the world, The Black Stick flowed forth freely from the factories of the Great Menda. But the the Dry Season came, and The Man spoke, and He said: “This part is constrained.” And Lo, when The Black Stick returned, it no longer came from the fertile fields of the Great Menda, but a new power, The Great SCC. And it is with this that we flurish, and owe thanks to The Great SCC for providing for us and enabling us to do that which is Good and Righteous.

Chapter Three: The continuum of the Black Stick has changed! 

For, over a fortnight, the Great SCC has changed the Black Stick once again! For what was once pliable and soft, aye, some have said “too soft”, has returned to its former rigid glory! All hail the benevolence of the Great SCC!

Postscript

A lot has happened since 2006; Menda is back in action and their black sticks are better than ever. You can even order some for yourself. And I wish I saved screenshots of the “officer” names before all that was wiped… 10 years ago.

mario andretti going up the hill in the same lotus he drove to his first pole position

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sirartwork:

herr-melin:

meep.

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he really came out and just said “e”

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Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As [Nicholas] Hobbs puts it, the secret of fulfillment is “to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.” 

Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

“choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become”

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Chungking Express (1994)

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Buddy, I just work here.

Chungking Express (1994)