The Art of the Short, Short, Short Con ::: The Art of Being Taken In

Last night outside the pub after having said goodbye to the rest of our party, I was giving my friend Tanya a ride home. We walked down the street with the wind blowing wildly, the sky about to rain at any moment. Just as we were about to get in the car a lady a [...]

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20,000 Comes and Goes…

…that is 20,000 actuations of my shutter. At least that is what it is going by the numbering of my pictures. I am not sure whether pictures which are taken and immediately deleted on the camera are counted in the numbering or not. I am guessing not. At any rate, the old, or not so [...]

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Chicago, Chicago

Some times when I have taken a lot of pictures of an event or trip, the burden of sorting through them and weeding and deleting gets to be burdensome to me, and so I put it off and put it off and put it off. You get the idea. So it is only now that [...]

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Leakinesses

“Leakinesses,” because there are several different types, even if Mr. Gates’ Word will not permit my pluralizing of it (and yet it does permit “pluralizing”). Still, there are several different sorts. There is the sort of leakiness which the man in the boat experiences in Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s brilliant movie Good Will Hunting. [...]

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Leakinesses

“Leakinesses,” because there are several different types, even if Mr. Gates’ Word will not permit my pluralizing of it (and yet it does permit “pluralizing”). Still, there are several different sorts. There is the sort of leakiness which the man in the boat experiences in Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s brilliant movie Good Will Hunting. [...]

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Viva La Vida: How I Would Have Done It

I just saw the bombastic video for “Vida La Vida” by Coldplay and must say I am a bit disappointed, because I like the song a great deal and thought it deserved better. In fact, for the past month or so I have been constructing my own video for the song in my head (something [...]

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A Change of Focus

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Old Glory in the City and the Town

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Mmm, Mmm Peaches

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After Paying the Ticket….Darn Street Sweepers!

Frigidaire

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