There isn’t any contest, actually: I just took the photo here by squatting half-naked in the acequia, and yes it was cold. But this gives me a chance to talk about truck surfing, yes! Back in the old days on the Eastern Shore of Maryland near Chestertown, there was a thing my friends did when [...]
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This is an old sculpture of mine, cast bronze — I took it yesterday before the calendar started moving backwards. Some years ago, before moving to New Mexico, I won a Maryland Arts Council grant to produce a series of bronzes based on cat skulls — the “Cat Project,” naturally. It’s easy to add things [...]
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My wife’s dead watch batteries (both of ‘em!) presented a curious opportunity. Since the Radio Shack store was just a couple of blocks from Rick Smith’s Brodsky Bookshop, I could fulfill my manly obligation to buy replacement watch batteries and also redeem last year’s $35 Christmas gift certificate from Brodsky’s, which I’d only recently belatedly [...]
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Bud Grace draws this comic strip. I’ve considered him a genius for years. The current theme of Ernie’s evil nephew Spencer tormenting his dad into buying him a weasel for a pet is fantastic laugh medicine — in this frame, Spencer is in the “weasel store. ” Just the way Bud draws the weasel cracks [...]
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See, this is why it’s good to be an adaptable, creative fellow. I thought things were going pretty well, until I went ballistic on a mailing list and sent people here who don’t need to see these things. VERY unprofessional, shows how serious this is for me and how much I need to take care [...]
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I forgot to get this posted a couple of weeks ago — gee, I wonder why? — but here it is. Regular readers of this blog will recognize elements of previous blog posts assembled into a new whole. Not quite like building Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, although related, and with much better results. This was just [...]
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Oops, fell three days behind again. Now fixed! Almost done with the Arizona trip now. Next up, Los Changos del Mar (“New Mexico’s only extraterrestrial, psycho-surf-punk, spy-billy, harem conjunto!”) at Taos Plaza, then a custom car show. Heh.
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Now there’s a title you don’t see every day, and the guys who made it possible aren’t everyday fellows, either. How it turned out that in my advanced decreptitude I’ve finally found friends who not only share many of my own predilections and cultural underpinnings but also take care of each other is mildly astounding [...]
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“The planet is asleep and it’s the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.” (Sun Ra) Is that COOL or what? I grabbed the quotation from the comments section of an article by ex-Fug and founding member of the False Prophets, Steven Taylor, at Reality Sandwich entitled “Is That a Real Reality, or Did [...]
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I’ve been gone all day and most of the night, plus northern New Mexico was offline all day. We were in Las Vegas, NM, where I took this shot playing with my new telephoto lens. It’ll will show up later on FotoFeed, but I just couldn’t wait. Just say whoa
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