Rotting On The Vine

Rotting On The Vine

57: FULL SLIPS, BASKETS, HALF SLIPS

BASABASA IS ALSO A JAPANESE TERM FOR DRY HAIR RUSTLING

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Zoe Latta
Mar 29, 2026
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The archeology club of UCSC got a hold of my great grandpa’s diaries. He was a self trained ethnographer and scholar of the Yokut indians. My family regards him as an asshole. The UC students who are scanning the pages can’t read his cursive so they use an app to translate it for them. They told me he was an avid basket collector and that his vision for…

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