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The original caption accounts for the entire investment. The difficulty of picking it up was included in the price.
Original caption112-lb sandbag: $25 (total).
THE PESKY BLUBBER FITNESS CLUBPERMANENT COLLECTION · SAN DIEGO
An institution of highly movable objectsPesky
Pesky
Blubber.
Fitness Club & repository of
things someone had to carry.
ESTABLISHED MARCH 2013Please do not feed the equipment.PROCEED WITH CURIOSITY ↓
It began with a few
things in the grass.
A water jug filled with water and salt. Sandbags. A bucket. People who showed up on a weekend to carry them around. The photographs, captions, and marked-up programs below come from the original Pesky Blubber archive.
The objects have been given rather more room here than they had in the car.
ADMIT ONEYOUNO SPECIAL ABILITIES REQUIREDKeep this ticket.
There is absolutely no reason to.
There is absolutely no reason to.
THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONPhotographs & original captions, 2013–2015
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A rope, a load, and a patch of grass. Nothing here needed a software update.
Original caption162-lb sled anchored with rope: $35 (total).
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An inventory of the early collection, complete with prices. The bucket was $3.50. There is something reassuring about knowing that.
Original caption65-lb 5-gallon water jug filled with water & salt: $10. 70-lb sandbags in garbage bags: $10. 50-lb bag of play sand: $5. Bucket: $3.50.
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The original caption records the dedication to Captain Steve Piantanida. The name survived. So did the photograph.
Original captionIn honor of Captain Steve Piantanida , who's over in Afghanistan, we're calling this The Slaughter.
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The crossings-out remain part of the object. So does the original assessment below.
Original captionThis was not approved by Jessie Ray beforehand, to great regret.
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The event sheet left room for your name. It also left room for regret.
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The album title is “Heisenberg joins the PBFC.” Its description: “He was not treading lightly.”
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The hippo became the face of the club. The original design caption credits Flickr Commons.
Original captionWorking on a new, but old, design, courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/commons.
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A later version of the club insignia, preserved from the 2015 Facebook archive.
Original captionCreated with facebook.com/celebratepride
No such object has entered the collection. Try “sand” or clear the search.
From the institutional recordWe have been
We have been
like this for
some time.
Original posts. Original enthusiasm.
“We've made some modifications to the website. That is, we now have a website.”July 22, 2013
“where you can choose your workout among 90s-era nostalgic options”July 25, 2013 · excerpt
“message, e-mail, text, or raven”June 12, 2013 · methods of inquiry
Something quieter.
Some thoughts about showing up, getting older, and taking a year to read a book.
Enter the reading room ↗