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Conspiracy Theories and Me

So, I’m at lunch, having a beer (or two (or three (or I lost count))) and I’m scrolling Instagram thinking, ‘do men actually like women or have we been conditioned to like women? What if we were originally meant to partner with dogs so as to create a race of elite beings who not only…
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Productive Waste of Time

Yesterday I used my lunch hour to go to the local Barnes and Noble bookstore to get the latest issue of i-D Magazine. Turns out they didn’t have it. It’s an import from the UK and they are still one and a half issues behind on the magazine racks here (another issue is due out…
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2022.09.07: “What’s It Like to Be Dead?”

Just finished reading Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried, a coherent collection of short stories about Tim’s time as a soldier in Vietnam. I call it a ‘coherent collection’ because the stories, any one of which could stand its own, flow in either chronological or narrative order. It’s a book I picked up by chance…
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Photographic Tourette’s

Here I will admit to having a kind ofphotographic Tourette’s Syndrome in that, when out by myself, I cannot sit more than a few minutes without pulling out either my phone or my camera and taking a picture. The impulse is still there when I’m with others but, unless there is something truly compelling, their…
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New York City Clocks – Nathaniel Fisher Company

This clock is located at 145 Duane Street which used to be the headquarters of the Nathaniel Company, a shoe wholesaler which had been in business from the 1860s until 1953. Duane Street was central to the City’s shoe industry. Their original building at this location was destroyed by fire in 1864 and a new…
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New York City Clocks – The Silk Clock

When you walk around New York City you see all sorts of interesting things. I’m always on the look out for old clocks on the side of buildings. You see them everywhere, especially below Canal. I stumbled on to this one a bit further up town on Park and E. 32nd and was fortunate to…
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Printing on the Wrong Side of the Paper

Bit of silliness… I’m in the middle (almost finished, actually) of reading Hold Still a memoir (with photographs) by Sally Mann, a photographer I’ve admired since the late 80s. Really good read and I recommend it, not just for the discussions of her work and some of the controversy it caused in the 90s when…
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Wordless Wednesday

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2022.08.10: Notes and Pictures Taken on a Long-Ass Train Ride From Stamford to Charlottesville

My first post in a while. Consider this a warm up for getting back into the writing habit. Consider yourself warned: you may be bored. I’m booked on the 11:29 Amtrak Northeast Regional from Stamford to Charlottesville. I had asked my friend, Emil, for a ride to the station. He said yes, but first he…
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Par Avion

I’ve taken a bit of a break from writing – mostly to do some reading, but also because I didn’t have anything interesting to write about. I still don’t but, as that has never stopped me before and I’m done reading for a bit … I spent some time last week packing things up at…
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