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Summer Reflections on Film - Part IV (opens the original)
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It makes me laugh when people warn me against living in small towns. I know small towns. I grew up in small towns.We moved a lot. For no other reason than I was part of my parents’ early 20’s figuring it out stage. Pros and cons. Pros: I have excellent taste in music and TV because of them. I was stealing my stepdad’s Green Day Dookie album at six years old. Some of my earliest toddler memories are of me and my mom, feet up on her dresser watching 90201 like we were high school besties.Cons: I f
Summer Reflections on Film - Part III (opens the original)
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I caught myself making some grim jokes as I was heading out of town on the last day of August. Jokes about maybe returning to the Earth from where I came. Jokes about the Yuba River taking me in for a permanent dip— how comforting that might be.I don’t know exactly what was causing the despair other than the ongoing list of… everything.On one hand it wasn’t that serious, but it was a compulsive enough joke that I was concerned enough to tattle on whatever part of me was testing out this idea wit
Summer Reflections on Film - Part II (opens the original)
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June was mostly pneumonia. Three weeks in bed while everyone got started on summer plans.It started with a trip to the ER because I was having chest pain, lightning bolting down my left arm. That can’t be good. I flashed my tits by accident- well, I was just being literal. The nurse told me to lift my shirt and I did. I just wasn’t wearing anything under my shirt. He had his back turned, and when he faced me again he physically jolted in shock. C’mon, man, you’re a professional.“Is that not what
Summer Reflections on Film- Part I (opens the original)
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Photography has been evading me “lately” aka the last 6 years or so. I dropped off a few more rolls of film yesterday to Bill at Bill’s Camera and I asked a really dumb question that I guess I knew the answer to, but needed reminding, or just wanted to start a conversation. Every time I drop off film, I’m asked if I want to keep the negatives. Or if I just want the digital scans. I let them write “toss” on the intake form and I feel a sense of shame or sadness, but I don’t know why.“What do peop
Nevada City Secret Poetry Project (opens the original)
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I did a thing. It was kind of spontaneous and then a plan formulated. I did it in anonymity, secretly, stealthily depositing poems in key public spots around Nevada City. Let me back up: I brought my typewriter.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height=
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