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  • Those that are NOT drunk often seem to be irritated at having to stop for children at a school cross-walk in the middle of the night.

    The Rainbow Clockwerkz Hugh Barlow 2012

  • Traversing a cross-walk during one of many coffee-getting expeditions, I was nearly run down by a woman who really, really wanted to make a right-hand turn but whose plans were being stymied by my own entirely legitimate and fait accompli crossing-the-street agenda.

    Barrett Brown: Palin biographer accuses me of planning anti-government violence Barrett Brown 2010

  • Traversing a cross-walk during one of many coffee-getting expeditions, I was nearly run down by a woman who really, really wanted to make a right-hand turn but whose plans were being stymied by my own entirely legitimate and fait accompli crossing-the-street agenda.

    Barrett Brown: Palin biographer accuses me of planning anti-government violence Barrett Brown 2010

  • Traversing a cross-walk during one of many coffee-getting expeditions, I was nearly run down by a woman who really, really wanted to make a right-hand turn but whose plans were being stymied by my own entirely legitimate and fait accompli crossing-the-street agenda.

    Barrett Brown: Sarah Palin as Margaret Thatcher? So Be It. 2010

  • Wrong way cancels out not crossing at a cross-walk?

    Round and Round: In Search of Direction BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Traversing a cross-walk during one of many coffee-getting expeditions, I was nearly run down by a woman who really, really wanted to make a right-hand turn but whose plans were being stymied by my own entirely legitimate and fait accompli crossing-the-street agenda.

    Barrett Brown: Sarah Palin as Margaret Thatcher? So Be It. 2010

  • Drifting across the lawn, watching me, following me with her eyes, and then everyday venturing just that much further, up the hill in front of school and towards the cross-walk and the crossing-guard, the one who had lost her nose to cancer and now wore this triangle thing in the spot where her nose had been.

    So Different Now 2009

  • The stoplight turned and as I stepped into the cross-walk, it rolled up.

    Lamborghini Estoque | clusterflock 2009

  • And then she moved past the cross-walk and the creepy house where the old shut-in lady lived, the one who waved to me as I walked to and from school even as she plotted to lure me into her home so she could bake me into some kind of stew or possibly touch my dick.

    So Different Now 2009

  • Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the gate of a timber-yard.

    Les Miserables 2008

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