Keep your eyes on the ground!

I love looking into the lives of strangers through the random debris we shed, via book or online form. Since Vancouver's pretty clean, I rarely find anything good floating around! For some fun reading, try the well-known Found Magazine - a series of books, a magazine and accompanying website. The author collects "FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life."

Check out the website and click back through the "finds of the day" for some entertaining coffee/lunch browsing. And if you find something good that strikes you, send it in! Here are some finds from the website that made me laugh, laugh harder, wonder and shudder in holy terror, in that order:

FOUND by Linn in Oslo, Norway I found this on the street eight years ago and I've kept it in a box ever since. On the back it says "Step on the gas" in Norwegian. I love this boy who drinks soda and becomes a superhero!

FOUND by David Gonzalez in Los Angeles, California

I found this at the MOCA information desk.

FOUND by Anne Kuhns in Atlanta, Georgia

My roommate and I were walking to the corner store on a rainy Saturday morning, and we found this lying on the sidewalk. I can only assume that the writer and the recipient are BOTH psychos.



FOUND by Kevin Habberstad in Portland, Oregon
I found this while cleaning an office building. It chills me to the bone.