#neighbors
The pattern of adjacent-property behavior: chimes, yard cars, harassment talk, micro-aggressions.
12 entries.
From the storm
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Noise Pollution
A four-clip incident on the porch, mid-day on the Fourth of July. A lawn crew is at work at the neighboring house, running a backpack leaf blower on a federal holiday — meaning someone is paying holiday-overtime wages to interrupt a residential block on a day off. David starts filming from the porch, audibly narrating the who-pays-holiday-pay-for-this question. The tell arrives quickly: the woman on the crew aims her blower at him as a response, and she is the same worker who came onto his porch weeks ago with the blower, a confrontation that seeded blownaway.org. Her partner comes over and starts filming David. The threat to call the police lands from their side; David welcomes it — give it to the police, call the police, tell them I was annoyed. Four clips: (1) the initial complaint and the aimed-blower response; (2) the code-switch as he asserts residency, yo vivo aquí, me entiende; (3) the three-minute standoff with the partner, the mutual filming, the police threat, and the full backstory the encounter is a repeat of; and (4) the kicker — after the crew leaves, David finds a bag of dog shit on my front porch and puts the question plainly: do you think that could have been the lawn people that I just was talking to?
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Beer Can on the Lawn
A beer can on the front lawn this afternoon. The pattern overlap with previous placed-object incidents on this property is real and worth noting; the alternative explanation — random trash thrown from a passing car, which is a known Houston / Montrose behavior — is equally real and is recorded here so the entry preserves the uncertainty rather than asserting causation.
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Harassment Talk
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Nextdoor
A post about the day's vandalism gained traction on a neighborhood platform, then was flagged as spam within hours. The platform's editorial frame, examined.
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Neighbors and Narcissism
On shame intolerance, reactive abuse, and what the carefully tied bag on the tree root meant.
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Mr. Roger's Neighborhood Parodies
Two parodies of the theme song from a certain children's program, fitted to the neighborhood as it actually is.
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Neighbor Jokes
An evening session with Too Bits — jokes and limericks made out of the day.
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Chimes Restored
Same-day Amazon. The upgrade installed by evening.
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Chimes Vandalism
Wind chimes cut from my porch overnight. The flat marks on the cut ends, a replacement order, and a direct word for whoever returns with their scissors.
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Neighborhood Shitbag
A bag of dog shit left on the tree root by my porch. The figure described, the response considered, the police call planned.
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Blown Away
An evening research session opening on the health effects of noise pollution and running straight into the day's incident on the porch — the Saturday yard worker, the backpack blower, the confrontation, the three-inch bolt left behind. Walks through WHO cardiovascular research, sleep-disruption mechanics, low-frequency infrasound under fan white noise, the bent-fan-blade theory, and lands on the five research threads that became blownaway.org.
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An Incident on the Porch
An outdoor-maintenance worker, a backpack blower, a confrontation at the door, and an object left behind.
