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Business Travel with Dad

June 17, 2013 by 1 Comment
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Chuck Ross relates a father and son bonding experience at the U.S./Mexico border.

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My Uncle Didn’t Get AIDS Because He Was Gay

December 1, 2012 by 4 Comments
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Kathryn DeHoyos shares the most important thing she ever learned about sex.

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Wei Wei’s Marble Construction Helmet

October 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Wei Wei, China's greatest contemporary artist, is exhibiting down at the Hirsshorn Museum in Washington, D.C. I saw the exhibit other day and made videos of a couple of his works. The one here is a marble life-size sculpture of a construction helmet. After I loaded the video onto my computer, I watched it and took a picture of one of the frames. I edited this picture some, and this is what I came up with.
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A Gallant in Gtown

October 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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I took this picture in Georgetown, D.C. before I went to a cocktail party.

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Croked Door to a Salon

October 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I was at a food festival yesterday in Bethesda Maryland USA; so I turned away from the food—the best picture is always behind you—and took this photograph. Perfect light: clouds which diffused the 9 a.m. stuff from the good old sun.
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Dear John: Dating That’s All in the Family

October 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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This week Dear John addresses dating siblings of exes, a bad gift painting, and competing with a friend for a job.

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A Painting Refresher

October 6, 2012 by 2 Comments
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Brush up on the methods for completely covering old paint—and all the safety bases—with veteran housepainter Mark Ellis.

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The Bird Man

August 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I was planning to do a meaningful and relevant series on life at an entrance to the Foggy Bottom subway stop in Washington D.C. USA. I tried a bunch of shots, people walking to and coming from the station’s escalators, merchants selling roses (6 for $3) hot dogs, hats and egg rolls. Didn’t come up with much which I liked. However, I found a couple shots just off the train stop, one across the street (a young man suckin’ on a cigarette), and in a little park by the stop, I found this man: the bird man feeding birds. I thought he was the drunk type as I took pictures of him with his birds, but I spoke to him after I finished photographing, and clearly he was an intelligent and lucid man. He said he worked as a model in the 1970s, and he said I had picked a good man to photograph.
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Man in a Garage With a Car [Photo]

August 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Sigmund Freud Said Abnormal

July 31, 2012 by 3 Comments

I would be William Shakespeare—zounds. / But I am madder than 12 Ezra Pounds. [Poem]

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Mr. Spoon

July 29, 2012 by 2 Comments
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Woman on an Escalator

July 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I took this photograph without looking. I held the camera on my left hip and clicked when I clicked. There is a lot to be said about art by chance. Dupont Circle subway stop Washington D.C. USA July 18 2012
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Three Happy Pedestrians

July 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The temperature was 101, and I was standing, not moving, and I was sweating, and I’m not a sweater, and people kept walking by. 1 block north of Dupont Circle Washington D.C. USA July 18 2012
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Panhandler

July 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This gentleman was panhandling on the sidewalk down at Dupont Circle Washington D.C. USA. and graciously allowed me to take his photograph. July 18 2012.
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My flab despair

July 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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William 2

July 14, 2012 by 2 Comments
I have happened into two gentlemen at the Washington D.C. USA Japanese American WW II memorial the last couple of times I have walked past the memorial on my way to what are usually pretty weird films at the National Gallery of Art. The memorial, perhaps ironically, is about a block or so south of the U.S. Capitol, where, I might add, albeit cynically, that politicians refer to themselves as Honorable So-and-So and Honorable Such-and-Such and so on. The gentleman who I picture here introduced himself to me as William. William was happy to let me photograph him, and he was even happier when I showed him my favorite shot. As I stood near William, I judge that he had not bathed, I’d say, in two weeks, maybe more. I asked William if he had an email address, and he said no. He also said he had to go get some lunch.
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