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Time
I'll tell you what--if Ili lets me work at this, you won't be able to keep up with my production. It will be like the old days. She's been out of town for four days now, and I've been working...
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I Should Have Made More
I am writing this a couple days before it will post due to Chatham's death. Ili is out of town, so I have been sitting and moping and scanning and working on old things, drinking whiskey and eating...
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A Mouth Full of Nickels
Have you heard of Michel Houellebecq? I feel like a fool. Never heard of him until yesterday when I read this book review (link). I will have to give him a go. I'll probably start with "Platform,"...
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Hey Boomer
Here's one of the Detroit photos from the roll of film I opened without rewinding. You can see the light leaks at the top of the frame. It's a shame. There are some pretty good shots that were...
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A Different Time
One day between 1974 and 1975, apparently, I walked around with my camera and took pictures of people in their cars. Why? I guess I was trying something. It didn't work, whatever, but I still want...
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And This Was Nature
"I quickly leafed through the opus, underlining the more amusing phrases in pencil: 'The strategic level consists in the realization of a system of global information promulgated by the integration of...
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Surprises
Sometimes a thing just surprises you. This came from my film roll, just something I snapped walking around Detroit. I'd forgotten all about it. It looks like an illustration for a story in the N.Y....
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Giving In
Took this from the window of a trolley on a cold Detroit City Day. I like Detroit, but I would be tempted to shoot heroin, too, if I lived in the midwest. Bleak, man. Bleak.Should I use up all my...
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Poleaxed
I hate to get too relaxed. As soon as I do, someone sucker punches me. Boom! All the joy and relaxation gone. There is something in the world that does not love my happiness. The world is closing...
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The Longest Day
I've never experienced a day like yesterday. The day was interminable. Now I'll admit I ate half a cookie the night before, and it sent me into a spin. Half. Jesus, I have a friend who eats four...
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Post-Wonderful
Black Friday. Time to spend, time to save. What a remarkable marketing tool. I don't really care. It just kind of went with my photo. I've never bought anything on Black Friday. I'm not a real...
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Chickens, Goats, and Zip Lines
Ili has gone to the beach to visit her family. We spent the day with them yesterday at Santa's Tree Farm. There were her parents, four sisters, two husbands, and two nephews. And me. I went as the...
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Out "There"
Jesus, it's December 1st! Suddenly Christmas is upon us. Some of us. I don't want to disrespect those who don't celebrate that holiday. I guess it is suddenly upon me and my ilk. How many...
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13 Ways to Kill a Mockingbird
My Saturday was not all countryside and landscape. Earlier in the day, I walked around Little Saigon or Viet-town or whatever the locals call it and shot up the place, so to speak. I had gone to the...
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Restricted Area
Here was the real surprise of the day, though (Saturday, my camera safari day). Coming home, I saw a giant manger scene on top of a hill surrounded by barbed wire. The place was an encampment of some...
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What Would It Be Like?
There is a kind of guy you don't see around much unless you run in his circles. I mean you could. You probably do. I live in a neighborhood that has them, but I hardly ever see them myself. You are...
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Detour
Jesus. I say that a lot now. Why is that? Why am I trading upon that image?Tonight an attorney explained to me how hard it was to be an attorney. I was told that I was not up to the stress of that...
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Perhaps
(1978)Sitting in a hipster coffee shop. It is crowded in the late afternoon, everyone on computers working on something. I'm a freak. Like them. Why would we come here to work on something rather...
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Happy Holidays
Today I will begin to celebrate "The Holiday Season." I know I'm late, but it is better than missing it altogether. Half a mile away on the Boulevard of my own little hometown, the Christmas Parade is...
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Occaisonal
This is from a roll of ruined film. I don't remember how I ruined it. Maybe I shot it at the wrong speed. I do remember that I shot it in my Olympus XA or XA4 and that it was Ektachrome slide film....
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