Thursday, January 07, 2010
On The Road With Mark 'Odd Job' Jaffe: Dec 22-23, 2009

"Truck-worthy Friend Trio"

It's been a few weeks coming but I've finally finished going through the photos I took on my journey before Christmas accompanying Mark Jaffe on a two-day excursion of truck driving and food delivery (documented live here).



"Mark Jaffe, Roadmaster, And His Chariot"

It was a fascinating, exhausting trip, which I will share in greater detail soon, but for the time being here's a photo slideshow I've put together. You can view it below or in larger, fullscreen glory here (recommended).
Alternatively, if you don't like slideshows you can view the whole group of 55 photos here.


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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
TRUCKBLOGGIN' #13: Daylight

It's still amazingly fucking cold out.

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It hurts to follow these posts.

12/23/2009 02:52:00 PM  

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #12: Day Two

It's 4:25am and Mark and I are again on our way back to NYC. it's too
dark to take a photo with an iPhone camera and I think I'm getting
sick.

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #11: Day 1 Conclusion

It's 1:31 am now and we are finally able to go to bed. It's 12 degrees
outside and we have spent the past 5 hours at the unheated Basis Farm
To Chef warehouse in New Paltz unloading and then reloading our truck
for tomorrow's deliveries. I woke up at 6:30 and have been on the road
since 7:15 so it's been a pretty long day, interrupted only by an
hourlong nap I took in our truck from 9:30-10:30 while we waited for
the last of the trucks to arrive (Mark continued working).

A 1:30 am bedtime wouldn't be bad if it weren't followed by a 3:40 am
rise--haa!--so I imagine that tomorrow is going to feel a definitively
wonktarded day. It's definitely been a strange way to spend my
vacation anyway.

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #10: Greenage

As a natural extension of the gentle amusingness of this very long
day, I just spent 15 minutes standing in a circle of a group of eight
male laborers chomping on various leafy foods to determine which
unlabeled box contained the plant "mustard greens"--with none of us
being able to identify a mustard green by sight or even, frankly, by
taste.

Ultimately we decided after pulling up a photo of mustard green on the
Internet that we had in fact found it and that all wad well.

Problem solved, though I am still wondering, after seeing the words
inscribed on the boxes in the photo above: what exactly are "baby
baby" and "meow"?

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posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 12/23/2009 01:50:00 AM 1 comments
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Blogger mark elliot said...

Actually, we didn't share this for Ben because he's from the outside, but our nights in the warehouse generally consist of a 5-minute "barbershop break."

12/24/2009 12:33:00 AM  

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
TRUCKBLOGGIN' #9: Load Time

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #8: Road Food

Quick, you have 2 seconds to guess what food item this is:

Is it a custard?
The brains of Osama bin Laden?
No.

It doesn't matter, really, what it is--the point is that this is the
first time in my life that I have eaten TWICE at Roy Rogers in one
day. Rad/Yikes! I am straight bird-doggin' this shit.

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posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 12/22/2009 08:42:00 PM 1 comments
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mashed potatoes.

12/25/2009 02:08:00 AM  

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TRUCKDBLOCKIN' #7: Toga

I have only been to Saratoga once since I graduated but here I am
again now at Satatoga Apple. Strange twists.

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #5: Chawtastic

Anyone who knows me knows that one of my many mantras is "I'll try
anything once", and how could a trip to a farm to load milk onto a
truck not include an offer to do a little chewing tobacco, right?

Above on the ground you will see the chaw that I held in my mouth for
approximately three minutes before being advised by a ten year old
girl to spit it out so as not to end up like her cousin, who spent a
night puking after his first time chewing.

It was both more intense and more gross than I'd imagined it to be,
but also a worthy experience in the Book of Beaumont Life Actuation.

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #4: Capital Joy

If only my whole life consisted of more constant diet of hot dogs,
chain-smoking and chugging Five Hour Powers... I would then probably
own more long johns then I do now.

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #3: Retail Banana Guide (Duh)

Obviously, it's a Retail Banana Guide.

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #2: Dashboard Shutterin'

Already I dropped the Holga and exposed a roll of film I'd shot. But
the living is good.

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TRUCKBLOGGIN' #1: Roadcore

So Oddjob Jaffe and I are off on the road in a rented truck heading
now from Fairlawn NJ to the glorious tracts of upstate to discover
love and the greater future. We are listening to Nirvana.

Sent from my iPhone

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Anonymous kj said...

everything about this makes me happy.

12/22/2009 09:08:00 AM  

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