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POTD 02/1-2/20

And that's how you beat palindrome day.Here's yesterday's photo, from 2016, taken in San Francisco CA.And here's the 02/02/2020 photo.Taken in July of 2016 at the California State fair in Sacramento. I always burn up a lot of shots on these every time I go.

POTD 01/31/20

Taken in 1992 or 1994 in Las Vegas, NV. Which means this is a film shot.We've always been watched, so long as we've had the means to do so.

POTD 01/30/20

San Francisco, 2004. Probably my second trip up there for APE that year, back when it was a plane flight to get to SF (that isn't the case now.)

POTD 01/29/20

2005, Sedona AZ.Not much commentary today. Under the weather and about to drag myself to the writing desk so let's see how that goes.

POTD 01/28/20

Taken 2006 near Folsom, CA. Only a million years ago.

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Another week, another group of links. Do enjoy."The Berg" by Richard Smyth, as recommended by Jamie Delano. Sort of science fiction about the past that's really about the now. A short and biting read.The BergAppalachian Folk Magic in ESOTERIC online.http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeVIII/EsotericaVIII.pdfHaint blue and why it is, speaking of folk magic.https://www.theawl.com/2018/01/haint-blue-the-ghost-tricking-color-of-southern-homes-and-gullah-folktales/1971 trash crime DAY OF THE WOLVES via Del Dinosaurhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF_-c7bAt_s&feature=youtu.beLessons from the This Factory, via David Brothers, sort of a "Manufacturing Consent" for the content mill age.https://holapapi.substack.com/p/lessons-from-the-this-factoryI, ZOMBIHayden Milligan, Appalachian horror host and horror circuit regular, an American story like no other.https://vimeo.com/39235113https://medium.com/cuepoint/cia-allegedly-behind-1980s-club-hit-about-sleeping-dominatrix-66508c6581bf#.bjtfqhzewThe CIA makes a club hit in 1978? Real life is weirder than fiction because fiction has to make sense.Algiers interviewed on the release of their third album (which I just picked up over the weekend and its pretty great, as I've come to expect from them.)https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/17/political-rockers-algiers-america-is-in-a-complete-spiral-and-collapseAt rest in the Fieldshttps://www.texasobserver.org/celebrating-childhoods-end-at-eloise-woods/Natural funerals in Texas, with thanatology being a real thing.https://stellaromsourcedekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/i-see-through-youFrench death-house, okay, maybe not. But it's worth a spin.I'm considering getting back to talking about writing and such here, other than the general housekeeping stuff I've been doing. I'd like to get a few more weeks packed away before doing that. And, believe it or not, I've got plenty of things that I want to talk about in long form that just don't sit well on Twitter. But that's kind of a hard sell these days. I mean, I don't have a Patreon or Medium account to turn these clicks into something. I just have thoughts, kinda like I did back in 2003 when I crawled back online.

POTD 1/27/20

2006, unnamed restaurant in the Gaslamp, San Diego CA. Taken during SDCC that year, back when I lived down there. Stopped going to the show in 2010. I'd like to go back one day. Maybe.

POTD 1/26/20

Another from Gardnerville NV, not far from where yesterday's was shot.

POTD 1/25/20

Gardnerville NV, earlier this month. I still need to work with this camera some more because I clearly can't control it properly.

THAT GOOD GOODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR! LIGHT

Went to San Francisco yesterday, which is a more and more considerable trip every passing year, it seems. But I had good occasion to, as William Gibson was out speaking and signing copies of his new book AGENCY. I might do a fuller writeup on that later, but I'm sure it's being covered to death by your favorite popcult writers and posted last night, even. But me? I had a two hour drive home and to wake up the next day and reassemble myself. It's gonna take some time.But I did take pictures. Good light yesterday, especially if you were trying to capture the monumental. Wish I could've stopped and shot the city from Treasure Island, but that wasn't gonna happen. The sky was all clotted and marbled with a color that went anywhere from silver to saffron, faintly purple aerial perspective on the city reminding us that we are in fact living through times that will be talked about later on and perhaps not kindly. All taken with my trusty Leica DLX-5.My ride into town. Cyberpunk AF. The entire facade of this shuttered building was covered in silver spray paint like it was club night. That is one custom sign.v a p o r w a v e flotation and cryo clinic on Valencia. Honestly, I could've spent the whole afternoon there shooting the different shades of pink and blue. Roxie theatre, which was showing PARASITE which I still have not yet seen and is not playing anywhere within fifty miles of me. The timing was not going to work out. The Armory building on 14th at Mission. t e x t u r e William Gibson talks about the holy shit chain of events of 2016 to today and the half-assed Singularity and how serious science fiction authors told him in 1983 that everything he wrote about was bullshit because there'd never be enough bandwidth ever to support it. Who's laughing now? Transit Monuments implied.