They'll All Be Gone
My organizational skills are notoriously bad. I can't find anything in my hard drives easily. I stumbled upon this image after hours of looking through old drives. This wasn't on a drive, however,...
View ArticlePlastics
There's a huge battle brewing in Texas over the transgender bathroom bill. Yup. And people are concerned that Kyrie Irving wants to be traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers. O. J. got his parole....
View ArticleMost People Don't Know What They Want
Trump succeeds because he knows what he wants. Most people don't know what they want. They are vague and uneasy. The dems know what they don't want, and they know what they want for others. This is...
View ArticleThe War of Myths
What can I tell you that you don't already know? Science stuff, maybe. Adiabatic cooling. Ili got a kick out of that one this weekend. I could tell you about organizing the kitchen drawers and all...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time
I've been going through my old hard drives, and good news--I found my old Lonesomeville files. Bad news--I'm finding everything else, too. Depresses me. I used to take a lot of pictures. I used to...
View ArticleLousy Mood
If you are looking for happy, I'm not your man. I've been a lousy mood, a terrible mood. It is the heat and the humidity I like to think. But it is more. Everything seems too close, too...
View ArticleHow I Feel
I bought a focusing screen for a camera I never use yesterday. I paid $175. I don't know how I feel about that. I bought a Monteblanc Meisterstuck Roller Ball pen on eBay for $23. It is coming from...
View ArticleRescue
By the throat and by the balls. How do you get out of that one? Best not to get there in the first place, but once you are, it is hard to think of anything but rescue. I have been thinking rather...
View ArticleUntrue Color
I spent most of yesterday working with old files I've never touched, NYC pics from years ago. But I also shot with my Leica M 262 to which I attached an old Voigtlander 25mm lens. The Leica didn't...
View ArticleThings That Feel Like Sam Shepard
For years, I've used Sam Shepard as a tone, a mood, an atmosphere. Things looked or felt like a Sam Shepard play, I'd say, though I never meant one in particular. I'd see a photograph of something in...
View ArticleAs Always
The world is getting hotter (link). Americans are getting dumber (link). Kids can't read or write (link). I could go on, but what's the point. Everyone on one side knows it. The other side denies...
View ArticleSolar Craze
Bigger than Woodstock. That is what the paper's say about the events surrounding the total eclipse. A person in the swathe of 100% eclipse will feel the difference, or so they report. I envision...
View ArticleWhat He Should Have Said
Here in the "sunny south," here in my own hometown, school is about to begin. What!?!?!? True dat. It begins in the middle of next week. Why? Beats the hell out of me. I would say that parents...
View ArticleThe Petri Dish
Dirtiness is much more difficult to accept in this heat and humidity. We thought to go to a fish taco place last night that we enjoyed in the winter, but we thought again just before going and didn't...
View ArticleMIA
My yardman didn't come yesterday. I worry about him. He has been cutting my lawns since about 1988. My longest relationship, sort of. He hasn't been looking good lately. He is a great and friendly...
View ArticleHype and Circumstance
I should save this photo for September when the solstice will occur. But I couldn't find an "eclipse" bag photograph. Maybe I should look harder. I have all sorts of things. I'm already tired of the...
View ArticleA Man with Tools
There is nothing that makes me feel more of a man than working with tools. At least that is what I said when I took the battery out of the Vespa. Hell yea. Put the little sucker in the car to take...
View ArticleWhat?
I had a rant for today, a funny one, I think, but I have forgotten it. And now I'm blank. I don't even remember which photos I've posted any more. Yesterday's was a repeat of a few days before....
View ArticleBill Murray's Fault
Just a thought. I don't know about other people, but for me, it is Bill Murray's fault (link).Although he doesn't use social media, he is all over it. And the life depicted there is the life I (we?)...
View ArticleDon't Trust the Internet
Years ago, back when I was a photographer and I corresponded with photographers and we would exchange compliments and works, I posted this photograph by Nathalie Roze from a series I liked by her. She...
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