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Hoard Explorer

Hoard Explorer is a new concept in digital resale. I am selling off a personal hoard as-is, and what i can"t sell I destroy. It is my promise to you that I will minimize my impact on landfills by either turning a profit or controlled, responsible incineration. Prices are not dictated by the market. Costs reflect my willingness to part with any given item. So if it"s really expensive, that"s because I don"t want you to have it.

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36 - The Hoard As Such

Hoard Explorer ·

2025/07/02

The Hoard, all of it, all in one place for the first time perhaps ever Well, it’s here now. I don’t know what I feel exactly. Setting aside the sale of the ancestral estate in Napa, I’m now confronted with the reality of The Hoard amassed in one room. I mean, what am I looking at here? Is this an archive? Some kind of message in a bottle? An overblown junk drawer? Yes, and more. The Hoard in The Vault at Ochre Acres is an information mind beam spanning timespace, transmitting evidence constituent

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36 - Dad's Yearbook

Hoard Explorer ·

2024/05/24

A Class of 1967 yearbook from University of California Hastings College Of The Law (now called UC Law SF) I recently had the opportunity to throw away all my highschool yearbooks, as well as those of my siblings. I couldn't bring myself to throw away the old man's yearbook and I only vaguely understand why. There aren't many heirlooms that I specifically tie to my father, but this is now one of them. hoardexplorer.com #hoardexplorer #memoir #dad #heart #hastings #einstein #friarsclub #65club

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34- Charlie Brown Pocket Doll

Hoard Explorer ·

2024/02/07

A vintage Charlie Brown doll. Boucher Associates sold vinyl dolls of Peanuts characters in the mid 1960s. The company was founded by Connie Boucher, a window designer from San Francisco who got her break by pitching a datebook calendar concept to Charles Shultz. This Charlie Brown was manufactured in Hong Kong in 1966, and Charles Shultz had been living in Sonoma County for almost 10 years by this point. Neither myself nor the Captain had come onto the scene yet, and Aleister Crowley had passed

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33 - The Most Useful Tool In The World

Hoard Explorer ·

2024/01/07

A vintage ice pick with a faded logo and slogan. This old ice pick is far and away one of my very favorite personal possessions. It exudes the dignified aura of the patly historic, what with its soft worn patina and Spenserian logotype. But what makes it shine out from among my other baubles and odd ends is the hard fact of it's perfect handiness. Practically every day I find a use for it because, in its essence, this old ice pick is an irreducibly simple machine. In fact, it can be several of the

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32 - Neoprene Earbud Case

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/09/02

The neoprene carrying case which came with my missing Bose bluetooth earbuds. I tried to throw this neoprene earbud case away recently. But instead of sending it off to the landfill, it became the focus of this episode. I honestly don’t know why I kept it this long. It belonged to the Bose earbuds I lost, so even the case is premium quality. But really, it’s not that great. Certainly not as cool as my expensive pocket knife. The only time I ever pulled a knife on anybody was at a roadhouse in the

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31 - 1973 Calendar Plate

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/08/19

A collectable plate featuring a monthly calendar for 1973 & personified seasons. This is a plate with a stylized 1973 in the middle of a dense line drawing dominated by a cloud motif. Amidst the clouds are vaguely greek personifications of the four seasons, with outlines and postures that you might see in a map of constellations. I used to take my first girlfriend to the top of a five story train bridge over the Napa River to make out and look up at the stars. But the best stargazing I ever did was

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30 - A Bag of Expired Drugs

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/08/05

I typically don’t throw out medicine that I’ve been prescribed. Even if I no longer need it, even if it has expired, I put it in the plastic zipper bag I have set aside for such an occasion. It’s not a cherished possession, and I probably wouldn’t care if it disappeared. But I don’t want to throw it away. Sometimes I need some old muscle relaxers if my herniated disc acts up and it’s nice to know it’s there if I need it. I remember the first time I ever had a back attack, on a road trip back east

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29 - Spirit Women Vase

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/07/22

A hand-thrown ceramic vase, titled and signed by the potter. I found a tall ceramic vase at the Goodwill across the parking lot from the Walmart in Windsor, CA. The vase is embellished with a pair of bronze female silhouettes, sort of primitive cubist nudes. There’s a label taped to the base reading “Spirit Women”. I can make out a signature imprinted in the clay beneath but I can’t bring myself to remove the label for some reason. When I recently unpacked the vase after moving to my new house, I

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28 - The Actual First Episode

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/07/15

In 2015, at my mom’s house in Napa, I recorded myself while digging through some boxes of ephemera from The Hoard. The main Hoard, the motherlode, the deep cuts. This was a completely extemporaneous “first episode” of a podcast memoir concept I had been noodling on for months. I had planned on literally burning with fire the contents of each box after reviewing each bit in turn, describing and reminiscing and then incrementally ceremonially disposing of a lifetime’s collection of cherished worthless

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27 - Hoard Tarot

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/07/08

An arrangement of things from the former Table of Wonders for the purposes of divination. As I’m putting up some knick knacks around my new digs, I can’t help but notice the the way the assemblages always seem to add up to something. In particular there’s this built-in desk at the base of the stairs to the top floor. Here are numerous built-in cubbies above the desk that are just perfect for interesting hoard objects, and when all the cubbies are full I think it reads like some kind of heterodox

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26 - Paul

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/07/01

A tall ceramic penguin in my backyard. Paul is a ceramic penguin who lives in my backyard. He took up in a weedy patch of rocks bounded on one side by a short length of knee-high wire fencing. Paul has a blank, slightly surprised stare which suggests an inner serenity. He is an object of contemplation for me, or more like a locus of attention while I myself space out. I could happily sit in my back yard staring at Paul, indefinitely. And if I stare at myself staring at Paul, it's called mindfulness

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25 - Intro to Field Recording

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/06/24

A handful of pointless audio clips from my digital archive. I have a substantial collection of field recordings that I’ve amassed indiscriminately over the years. This episode is a clip show of sorts, a little audio menagerie that is representative of the sort of unnecessary recordings that I nevertheless feel compelled to store indefinitely. Back in Napa there is a pile of cassette tapes which capture a very early iteration of myself, back when I had a cassette recording schtick where I would claim

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24 - All My Stuff

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/06/17

All of my personal possessions scattered throughout an unfamiliar old house. This episode is a guided tour of my new home. Two weeks ago, I had no idea I would be moving into a different house with almost triple the available floor space. Large finished basement with a utility sink and small side room perfect for recording podcasts. Big backyard with plums and strawberries and figs. Detached garage. Only $300 more than our current rent. Only 2 blocks away from my brother. I still don't believe it,

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23 - Dorothy’s Fabric

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/06/10

Two large densely-packed tubs of miscellaneous fabric. Dorothy spent most of her life ensconced in work that involved fabric. I got the impression that her career ran the gamut from clothing to interior design and everything in between. I didn’t know her but I met her granddaughter who explained the yard sale to me. Maybe the most singular yard sale I’d ever witnessed. The entire front yard and virtually all available floor space indoors was crowded with fabric. Yards and yards and yards of fabric

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22 - The Mirror

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/06/03

A heavy mirror in weathered frame purchased at the cat store. This is a conversation I had with Zac about his grandparents’ “intense relationship with objects”. The patrilineal branch of his family exhibits a profound thriftiness and aversion to waste, born of formative midwestern experiences in the Great Depression. The matrilineal branch was consumed with collecting artifacts rather than needful things, amassing a large and wondrous trove of aboriginal art and craftwork from around the globe

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21 - Amalfi Demitasse Set

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/05/27

Perfect little handmade demitasse made by flawless hands in dreamtown. If I could pick a moment in my life to return to, I think it would be the second time I visited the Amalfi Coast. It’s a highly specific moment, less than a minute really. I was standing on this terrace at the edge of one of those cliff clinging villages, taking in the unobstructed view of the Tyrrhenian Sea. That would be a very good place to which I’d turn back the clock. I remember a time when I didn’t know where food comes

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20 - Quail

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/05/20

A hand carved hardwood sculpture of a quail. Don’t know about quail but Dad definitely hunted pheasants. I don’t have all that much experience with guns but I’ll share most of what I’ve got. The pandemic introduced me to food insecurity personally, whereas before it was only through the filter of the food bank I volunteered with in West Sonoma County, or West County as preferred by its residents. There is an arts & ecology center out there where the food bank’s master gardener would sometimes take

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19 - Boxes

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/05/13

A stack of various sized empty boxes situated in the middle of my basement. I have a collection of empty boxes. I have not broken down any of these boxes in anticipation of the day I will need them in order to move out of my current house. I have not desire to leave this location any time soon, but I think about it. I remember a time when I was 20 years old and more or less homeless, living in the back of a van with Mr. Happy Hat and 3 other people. I did a lot of drugs as a young adult and this was

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18 - Guayasamín Scarf

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/05/06

A long grey scarf made of heathered jersey and printed with heads designed by Oswaldo Guayasamín. This is a conversation I had with Shya regarding my conversation with Chad. He was concerned that nobody brought up the fear of death crouching behind the hoarding impulse. We forgot to talk about death for most of it, we mostly talked about our living mothers and how they each handle the possessions amassed over their lifetimes. We drift into the topic of legacy, describing heirlooms and feelings about

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17 - Bojack Horseman Monopoly with Collectible Baby...

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/04/29

A mint condition Game Stop exclusive edition of the Bojack Horseman Monopoly boardgame, including collectible tokens. This is a Bojack Horseman Monopoly game that I picked up at Mojosales flea market in Santa Rosa CA. It still has the shrink wrap on it. I bought it thinking that I could turn around and sell it as a collectible. It turned out that this doesn’t fetch a high price on eBay. As a Bojack fan, I admit I see a little of him in me. That box reminds me of my time as a North Bay lush, sucking

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