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New York - Live:
Jason Isbell Channels Bruce Hornsby at Bowery Ballroom - Sound of the City - Village Voice
I just noticed a blogger at the Village Voice used one of my photos in their about-town post on Jason Isbell. I think bloggers feel vaguely surreptitious doing this, and that’s why they never let me know. [...]

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I arrived at the address on a bright and hazy Thursday after a long and dreary afternoon drive through muddled Los Angeles congestion. Battling traffic had imbued me with a sense of undeserved urgency, there was no real rush.  Actually, I arrived after missing the place twice and circling back around. For it was a [...]

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I imagine Robert Capa had one just like this:
Leica IIIa + Lenses and Accesories.
$500? nah…

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A series of funny listings for real gear in the “photo/video” section of Los Angeles Craigslist. Some homophobic tics make the seller even more nutty. That’s Reseda for you.
The ad for the Vivitar reads:

Stock the Vivitar 283 flash comes with an inferior, sub-standard, faggot hot foot mount. But this flash has one of [...]

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Sounds from breakfast on the road

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As I walked closer to this industrial grade vent in back alley Missoula, MT I heard eerie sounds emanating from it. I tried recording the sound on my phone:
Play sound

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I spent only six minutes in Montana. I crossed the border and exited the first chance I got, in order to turn around. I had seen a creepy looking ruin at the last exit in Idaho, listed as Humphrey. I went back into Idaho and exited Humphrey — there was nothing there. The road [...]

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For unspecified but very valid reasons, my roadtrip actually started in Salt Lake City. Ascending north on the 15, it wasn’t long before my first unscheduled detour. I saw signs for Syracuse, UT. Thing is, I didn’t know there was a Syracuse, UT. But, I began life as a human in Syracuse, [...]

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Noted in my Flickr mailbox:

Hi Mick,
I used one of your incredible Coachella shots on CBC Radio 3. (I climbed this guy at Burning Man!)
CBC Radio 3 is a “profit-free” division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is not unlike your NPR.
radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2009/02/Top-Canadian-Acts-Heading-For-Coachella

Hope that’s cool?
Yes, it’s very cool. Check the CBC site, it’s playing great music! [...]

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Music to Read By: ” Scattered Black and Whites” - Elbow
Saturday night’s a bad time to lose a car window. Or a wallet, or a phone, or some cameras. So, I chose all of the above when my car was broken into back in December. It was a brutal twist to a desolate [...]

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