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from original photo album part 1: the young years

2018.10.11
Sometime during college or shortly thereafter I assembled my own photo album.

A long time ago I scanned it all and put it on my website, but at a relatively low resolution (see here)
so I decided to scan it all again. I reused all the old filenames I used as caption back then - sometimes carrying information I would have forgotten in the mean while.

When I scanned it, I broke it into 9 sections. Starting with "The Young Years" - including shots of my folks before I was around.

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My mom on a ski trip her freshman year of college, 1966



Graduation Picture of my dad, Coshocton, 1967



Dad at Salvation Army Cadet Picnic, Star Lake camp, 1972



in Philadelphia, around 2 months old



First Christmas in Cleveland, house on Torbenson Drive, 1974



First Christmas in Cleveland, house on Torbenson Drive, 1974



Cleveland, about 7 months old



With Shinola, about 4 months old, Cleveland



With mom, New Jersey 1974



with Papa Sam, New Jersey summer of 1974



Cleveland, kitchen floor, playing peek-a-boo, about 7 months



Cleveland 1975 with Alyce Joseph



Cleveland 1975



Outside Grandma house in Coshocton for Thanksgiving 10-27-74



in Cleveland with Sarah Kitty, about 4 months



Ocean Grove New Jersey 1974



1978 Christmas with Papa Sam in Waltham



grandma and granpa israel me scott april 9 1982



in Philadelphia, around 2 months old



1st prize at County Fair, in Salamanca NY (chair apholstery by dad) 1979



Salamanca Halloween as Robot



at St Pats School with Mrs Keenan, Christmas maybe 3rd Grade



Sanford Street School band, 3rd Grade



Sanford Street with Mrs Dorvee and Principal Andy Garuchio, Fifth Grade



Cleveland Christmas 1975, living room floor



Darren Archibald, screeching friend on St Thomas, 1976-77



St Thomas, 1976-77



St Thomas Lindberg Bay with friends



St Thomas, 1976-77



St Thomas 1-17-77



St Thomas, 1976-77



St Thomas Lindberg Bay 1-20-77



St. Thomas with dad, 1977



Cincinnati, Halloween 1977



Doing On the Good Ship Lollipop at Cincinnati ARC Christmas 1977



Santa at Cincinnati ARC Christmas 1977



Dad and Santa Cincinnati ARC Christmas 1977



Cincinnati Fountain Square, Spring 1978



Preschool Graduation Salamance 1979



Christmas at Grandmas



Christmas in Salamanca 1981 or so



St Thomas Lindberg Bay with Dad - taken early evening on a free public beach - a couple of minutes from our house - by the airport



Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. mabye 1982 under Puck - Lord What Fools These Mortals Be statue



Waldon Pond , 1984ish



Shinola with lamp,Cleveland, around 1975



St Pats school



Harvest Festival-Thanksgiving Time, picture by visiting Bedios, 1978



Main Street, Waltham,40th Wedding Anniversary of Grandparents,August 1983



with Nate at birthday party, Glens Falls, 1983



St Pats Jan 1983



with Cousin Scott Bedio, Harvest Festival 1978



in water at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, 1978ish



with Dad at Salamanca area whirlygig maker folkartist



Christmas in Waltham 1977-- Papa Sam Llara me and Aunt Susan



Papa Sam,Me, Mom and Willy 1980ish



Dads Cadet Farewell from NEOSA, Camp Herrick, Sept. 1970



Nana Philadelphia, two weeks after my birth,



with Wittenburg kids, Stacy, Danielle, Adam, maybe Christmas 1978, Cleveland



Coshocton, Christmas, maybe 1978



Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, maybe 1982



Salamanca l980



Salamanca farewell March 1982



Birthday, Glens Falls, probably 1984 -skating along with Jimmy Rose



Glens Falls chapel, Dad Me and Pam, 1984ish



as ronald reagen mrs hoffmans english class 1986

"masculinity is violence on the horizon"

from original photo album part 2: the pain: middle school and freshman year

2018.10.12
Ahh, Middle School (as Matt Groening calls it, "the deepest pit of Hell", high school being merely the second deepest.) Fun fact: for most of this time I went by my middle name "Logan". Anyway, mostly school stuff, plus the NEOSA Salvation Army Youth Band's trip to Mexico City.

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monticello middle school science fair



folks at glens falls parade stop



sue kirk betty christmas 1985 waltham



don burrows glens falls



dad as wittenburg godfather



in coshocton tree grandmas backyard



christmas in euclid



with dad sick at euclid christas



with mickey



with todd beecher at sanford street



family in ocean grove new jersey july 1983



first sousaphone marching in glens falls



with dylan murray glens falls may 1986



dad with moose antlers falling leaves festival oct 1980



doing my play starpox



grandma



mrs beale and the monticello orchestra cleveland heights



cornell jordan in my euclid room



camp neosa eric dana and beau hill



camp neosa wiley tammy ford and eric dana



neosa water mafia critter on left



elaine smith and cornell jordan camp neosa



heidi e at dhq



neosa youth band before mexico



neosa youth band col payton and tammy mclaughlin



jeff amd jenn in mexico



brian and tammy mclaughlin capt carvill and joe mercer



jimmy hevsila and beau hill mexico 1989



youth band in mexico 1989



youth band in mexico 1989



tammy mclaughlin



youth band in mexico



plaza d angel mexico



cornell jordan



lesly in mexico



plaza d angel



wall at disney world spring 1989



susan with mickey shrub



french epcot spring 1989



with aunt susan at disney



young mike witczak at locker



with matthew and bruno



gooch in mdm pla class



mr sarich bandleader freshman year



with wendy wang freshman band awards slovenia workers home in cleveland



lynn gessler in mr jablonski room

Nerf Football Rah Rah Rah
The biggest and most frightening impact of the AI revolution might be on the relative efficiency of democracies and dictatorships. Historically, autocracies have faced crippling handicaps in regard to innovation and economic growth. In the late 20th century, democracies usually outperformed dictatorships, because they were far better at processing information. We tend to think about the conflict between democracy and dictatorship as a conflict between two different ethical systems, but it is actually a conflict between two different data-processing systems. Democracy distributes the power to process information and make decisions among many people and institutions, whereas dictatorship concentrates information and power in one place. Given 20th-century technology, it was inefficient to concentrate too much information and power in one place. Nobody had the ability to process all available information fast enough and make the right decisions. This is one reason the Soviet Union made far worse decisions than the United States, and why the Soviet economy lagged far behind the American economy.

However, artificial intelligence may soon swing the pendulum in the opposite direction. AI makes it possible to process enormous amounts of information centrally. In fact, it might make centralized systems far more efficient than diffuse systems, because machine learning works better when the machine has more information to analyze. If you disregard all privacy concerns and concentrate all the information relating to a billion people in one database, you'll wind up with much better algorithms than if you respect individual privacy and have in your database only partial information on a million people. An authoritarian government that orders all its citizens to have their DNA sequenced and to share their medical data with some central authority would gain an immense advantage in genetics and medical research over societies in which medical data are strictly private. The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the 20th century--the desire to concentrate all information and power in one place--may become their decisive advantage in the 21st century.

from original photo album part 3: sophomore and junior years

2018.10.13
Dances, band trips to Detroit and Boston, and ending at Veronika's prom...

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with shannon ramsey at ehs winter fest 1990



222 street jazz



with scott at virginia plantation 1990



with dinosaur sir in euclid



bday beau hill mike witczak michelle voll randi babic me sir mike bill aube wendy wang



with toni yafanaro tuba section



with jenny wolchko homecoming 1990



with jenny wolchko lynn gessler and darryl lausche



announcing for 222 street jazz



steve workman bass marty witczak piano mark tomsic trumpet molly bari sax veronika schnell piano joey cesa drums



with jenny wolchko winterfest 1991



four muskateers wendys restaurant my birthday wendys baptism



veronika with solvy and michelle bisziuskas



ford museum marching bnd trip to detroit 1990



samsa in mirror lausche and witczak waiting for the dance in detroit



lynn gessler darryl lausche maria damico mike witczak jenny wolchko kirk israel



jenny wolchko ellen mansperger in detroit



jason samsa mike maria darryl lynn



17th birthday beau wendy maria me mike jenny



with woodchuck and play doh



as big jule in guys and dolls



as big jule with april luvererst guys and dolls 1991



with steve workman mike and marty witczak at boston science museum 1991



boston science museum t rex



mike and t rex 1991 jazz band in boston



veronika in salem ma mar 91



boston science museum



cambridge ho jo mike tony hren marty witczak joey cesa



with ellen mike and veronika at plymouth rock



myflower ii



veronika in thingie shirt at cambridge hojos



veronika and mike at hojos



tired ellen and veronika at boston science



everonika mike and ellen at bus



in tux in tree



in tux in tree



at gubitosi living room with veronika before prom



with veronika before prom by goobs rose bushes



preprom with veronika outside mr johnsons car



with mike by ehs bandroom christmas 1990



with veronika before prom by roses



mrs mclaughlin at prom toasting camera



preprom roses again

from original photo album part 4: high school senior year

2018.10.14
Bookended with band trips to Atlanta and Florida, and the musical Hello Dolly in between.

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keith scheurman mike witczak outside atlanta 1991



outside world of coca cola marching band to atlanta



king of stone mountain (parking lot)



stone mountain 1



stone mountain 2



stone mountain 3



stone mountain 4



atlanta underground courtyard



zoo atlanta rhino



japanese businessmen atop stone mountain



marching band with eric clean marine carlson



with mr alspaugh band leader



atlant christmas parade teddy bear



with holly struna homecoming 1991



publicity shot



thumpy



christmas play with patti elaine judy hill and jamie



marching band beau hill



222 street jazz in concert



marcos andrade in euclid living room



being knighted by marcos



being knighted by marcos ouch



marcos as cyrano



with nicole at ehs winterfest



marnies great green purple dress at wintefest 1992



as a bookwork



as rudolph the headwaiter in guys and dolls in bandroom



marnie as townfolk in bandroom



maria d'amico on right



in sunday best with marnie



jenn melnyk and ben shuskey



as bandmember with marcos



me as rudolph



hello dali



hello dolly put on your sunday clothes



hello dolly waiters gallop group



lynn gessler hello dolly



18th bday mike lin lynn beau marnie me jamie heidi marcos eric



in bus jazzband to florida 1992



in bus jazzband to florida 1992



rest stop during trip to florida



debbie long at rest stop during trip to florida



international movie posters at universal in florida



ellen and mike at disney



universal studios gate



mike and ellen at disney world waterfall



with woodchuck by epcot golf ball



the boys at disney



greg and mike in hotel room



glen russ lane snow scene



marcos snuggles kirk award winner



bandroom flipped



after last day of school marcos jenn melnyk me and mike



lisa moster end of school



colleen and friend

from original photo album part 5: prom and graduation

2018.10.15
Ah, the midwest prom. In retrospect kind of weird "the garter dance" was a thing for high school dances...

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marnie adjusts corsage before prom with stu and wendy



marnie shows some leg



marcos emily mike lynn me marnie stu wendy in salupo's backyard



bill aube and lisa moster prom 1992



reggie and ernalisa



wandy and jenn prom 1992



marnie before prom



marnie before prom



marnie before prom



with marnie before prom



mike and lynn before prom



wendy and stu



preprom group



preprom group



preprom group



preprom group



preprom limo



my butt going into limo



thumb marcos emily



wendy marnie lynn



keith sheurman and date



jeff kaleal and date



jeff saheeb kropf and date



grads in front of ehs me wendy lynn jenn debbi galosis another



guys graduatiing



with mom and marcos before graduation



award ceremony stage



awards billboard with marcos



von banken



mz bambic



von daughter and thumb



mrs mclaughlin with wandy and jenn



with marnie ready to graduate with honors



with colleen i think graduating



with honr jenn graduating



room in euclid



room in euclid



with tiny marnie



marnie with flower



with marnie at prom bridge

Wins at Fenway and Foxboro - nothing to be overconfident about at either but still, it's good to win when you gotta win. Interestingly the 43-40 score was a Scorigami, a score never previously achieved at the end of an NFL game. (I guess there's more opportunities with high scores.)
On my devblog: the stupid-idea-buddies buddy.

from original photo album part 6: 3 weeks in portugal

2018.10.16
Before I started college I got to visit Marcos, our exchange student from Portugal... his friends put on a poetry and fashion show "Fractions of Seconds" and I saw a village bullfight.

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vilar formoso portugal august 1992



faz falta cafe



portugal honda and castle



with marcos and baptista train station at night



faz falta with fractions of seconds group



inside faz falta



rehearing fractions of seconds



marcos andrade



view off of roman bridge



roman bridge with manny, alex, marcos



local bullfight



leaping on the bull



bull shoving rake



view from train



view from train



eiffel bridge



eiffel bridge



uptown band poster



faz falta mural



gang at faz falta



faz falta game boy



alex



fractions of seconds crew



roman bridge



getting ready for fractions of seconds



alex in fractions of seconds



waiter and fractions of seconds



fractions of seconds and a can



fractions of seconds and a can



drunk in vilar formoso train station



gathering foliage on the rocky terrain



historical town



king giving town right to exist statue



old construction



local bullring



local bull



bull jousting



bull from under stands



little doggie in the ring



bull chasing guy



milling around waiting for bull



the bull enters



bull in truck



broken glass



thumb and sandals

Random notes on reading and vanity:
1. I recently shelled out the $20 to get my old and scratched but great touchscreen Kindle off of ads, so the lock screen is an attractive grayscale image instead. Worth it I think.
2. It's funny that besides column width, my other reason for not using my phone as a reader is so that it's more obvious to onlookers that I'm engaged in reading and not browsing or gaming. This may be one of the most shallow things about me. (On the other hand, I always think it's good when the cover matches the book. So to speak.)
3. Come to think of it, I've switched from iPad Mini to this old Kindle full time. Maybe partially in existential protest to Apple leaving the Mini behind- I'd buy a new model that supported the Pencil in a second. But also, despite the lack of backlighting and color-coded highlighting, e-ink readers are such a chill technology.
4. Since 2000 I've been recording books read, movies watched, games played through, tv-series consumed. It's nearly impossible for me not to gamify this for myself- like I know I'm driven to complete mediocre books just for the little mark. At the end of the year I post a list with comments and recommendations. I'm not really trying to impress anyone with the numbers, just compete with my past self. Maybe I should consider posting the list without counting...
Arun and his pup Bolt

from original photo album part 7: 3 years in college

2018.10.17
And then, college. Technically my home address was New York City - some of those shots with the towers are a bit poignant.

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someone rob tracy and bob



rob kogan in freshman lewis hall



in lewis dormroom



dylan murray



nyc skyline from ellis island ferry jan 1993



in front of statue of liberty



veronika with fao teddy bear



veronika and thomas fall 1992



with veronika at harvard square



rebekah haas in cohen basement



rebekah in arts office



with marnie in salupo florida room



marnie in witczaks room summer 1993



reunion lynn darshi mike marnie alex wendy me



marine in my coat spring 1993



house on a truck near tufts



on rollerblades with beau hill spring 1993



with lena mindlina in hodgdon mental ward



lena on the tuba



lena jan 1995



donna-lane robbert uncle bill mom aunt suzie lena my 21st birthday 1995



with Lena and 21 gifts



manhattan building



with jen monty and mike by nyc skyline



mike looking at nyc skyline



in front of statue of liberty



cruiseship in new york harbor



ellis island stonework



ellis island courtyard



jen monty in shadow on ellis island



with tuba in pep band fall 1995



with mom around pep band



miss liberty



tufts wind ensemble at disneyworld jan 1994



at universal studios



on a disney rollercoaster



mary katrina shane me halloween 1995



halloween 1995 at bunker hill memorial



john mccain and tufts pep band



tufts cheerleaders



wind ensemble at quincy market



christmas 1994 rockefeller center



with mom christmas 1994 rockefeller center



mom christmas 1994 rockefeller center



with.grandma my birthday coshocton 1995

Funny how the aging milestone might shifting from transition lens / bifocals to "cranking up the font size on my phone"

from original photo album part 8: senior year til new years

2018.10.18
My family went on a 2 week, 3000-mile bus tour of the British Isles. And Veronika came to visit my in NYC for New Year's.

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outside british museum august 1995



math bridge at cambridge



british museum



with mom in scotlland



mom susan and uncle billy goats gruff



edinburgh cats



in edinburgh



uncle bill and aunt susan at edinburgh from above



family in uk



wales crazy port name



at stonehenge



scottish gargoyles



scottish gargoyles



scottish gargoyles



church gargoyles



cat art in edinburgh



gargoyles



cieda ocean grove nov 1995



by cieda ocean grove nov 1995



ocean grove pier and shore



boardwalk carousel house



old ferris wheel place near boardwalk



with jumbo ii



on wigglesworth



jen mono girl monty on bridge by fenway



family reunion at the simlers summer 1995



sunset over simlers family reunion 1995



anthony tony colindres



mom getting snes for christmas



aunt susan and her christmas loot from elisabeth



veronika and shadows on beach



veronika on jersey shore



veronika on rocky shore



with veronika at times square news year eve 1995-1996



rollover to 1996



other couple at times square 1995-1996



selfportrait in mirror at empire state building



blizzard of 1996 streetscene



veronika in living room of moms apartment



odd self portrait with veronika



veronika by wall near guggenheim

If you make things long enough, you will fail. That's important enough that I'm going to say it again, with emphasis. If you make things long enough, you will fail. The same thing that put you in the elevated place of being a creative artist in the first place will curdle or invert or fall on its face or on your face and you will be a person who made something that they should not have made. [...] David Bowie said something I really liked. I don't know if he said it often, but it's the kind of thing that you should get tattooed on your leg. He said that creativity is "one of the few human endeavors where you can crash your airplane and walk away from it."
Questlove, "Creative Quest"
I think it's a good example of being aware of catastrophizing - an individual effort fails, it's so easy to see that as an array of dominos to other creative efforts, to our self-worth, maybe even our ability to make a living and thus ensure our own physical security. But those situations, those kinds of slippery slopes, aren't that common, and usually we can find some place to get traction - that is if the initial failure is even that big to begin with. Which it usually isn't - that's where the ability to cast a "So What" field comes in handy. This effort failed. So what? So I feel like I'm less good of a creator. So what?

Another quote from the book that I liked the sound of:
There was no such thing as distraction. There was only traction.

from original photo album part 9: college end

2018.10.19
The Tufts Concert band went to Bermuda, I went to Gala, I graduated and then... I guess i switched to digital photography...

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ship in drydock in bermuda



bermuda architecture



bermuda.blue water 1996



band buddies on the beach



in the chilly ocean



band climbing up to lighthouse



view from bermuda lighthouse



with juj on top of lighthouse



show and cars off of lighthouse



band reflected in bermuda



band posing in chapel



band walking to school on hill



before we learned the macarana at the fort



lisa sanchez with a flower in her hair



harbor view from hotel



before ballroom dancing at the princess hotel scott mary me lisa eric cindy



scott and lisa in hotel room



on tourboat



dan and cindy at center of first lemming event



rebekah on bus before gala



with rebekah on bus before gala



in tux at gala



rebekah at gala



with rebekah at gala



rebekah and erica



rebekah and erica



todd and erica



rebekah by railing at gala



back of rebekah at railing



tufts packed senior gala 1996



rob kogan at gala



gal with fork dress scott korvek



emily and eve



mo and marieke at gala



outside of metcalf the day after gala



in bridge metcalf with rebekah



rebekah on metcalf stoop day after gala



rebekah scream



with jen tsang before dance



with aunt ruth and grandma at commencement



happy to graduate



family reunion young cousins



rebekah with puppy at rockport



climbing rocks in rhode island



fourth of july 1996 with the lemmings



with jen at fourth



jen in her hat



lemmings hide out from rain on fourth

"It's special in every aspect. Not only as a manager, but as an individual. Just to manage this team. Everybody knows the history of the city, and history has positive sides and negative sides. And for me, as a minority, to be a manager in Boston hasn't been a challenge. ... And to be able to led this team, it's amazing. It's a great group, very talented, very humble, very hungry."
Also, what a fine last name he has.
Decided to watch a little Brewers/Dodgers and th--WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SERIF FONT DOING WITH THE NAMES ON THE BACK OF THE BREWERS UNIFORMS
seriously what is that??

from grandma + grandpa, a long time ago...

2019.11.19
Taking a quick minibreak with my Mom and Aunt in NJ (thanks, use-it-or-lose-it vacation policy :-D ) ... I'm raiding my mom's photo collection a bit, so for the next few days I'll be posting some of the highlights of what I liked in her collection.

The Garbers were farm people...this is my grandmother Mary as a young'un.


John + Mary!

I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously embarrassing and not a little worrying. While these characters were originally perfectly suited to stimulating the imaginations of their twelve or thirteen year-old audience, today's franchised übermenschen, aimed at a supposedly adult audience, seem to be serving some kind of different function, and fulfilling different needs. Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods, or (b) the relatively reassuring 20th century. The continuing popularity of these movies to me suggests some kind of deliberate, self-imposed state of emotional arrest, combined with an numbing condition of cultural stasis that can be witnessed in comics, movies, popular music and, indeed, right across the cultural spectrum. [...] I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race. In fact, I think that a good argument can be made for D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation as the first American superhero movie, and the point of origin for all those capes and masks.

even
a small purple artichoke
boiled
in its own bittered
and darkening
waters
grows tender,
grows tender and sweet

patience, I think,
my species

keep testing the spiny leaves

the spiny heart
Jane Hirshfield, "My Species"

from sisters

2019.11.20
All but the first one (my mom and her posse) are my Mom and my Aunt...

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My mom looks like she's seen some stuff go down... (but their names are inscribed on their PJs which is a nice touch.)




With these next to I swear my Aunt shoulda been cast in a live-action Studio Ghibli remake...




"Jazz is about taking risks... it's the only way you get better!"
"At jazz?"
"At life! Jazz is LIKE life! It goes on for longer than you think, and as soon as you're like, '...oh I get it' - it ends!"
The Ghost of Duke Ellington on "Big Mouth"

Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! We've got to be reasonable about everything we do here. Studying, listening, holding our tongues, helping others, being kind, making compromises, and I don't know what else! I'm afraid my common sense, which was in short supply to begin with, will be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over.
Anne Frank's Diary
I just read Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaption. I don't recall if I read the original in school or not, but so much more of the day to day life - the banality of it - came through in comic form. And the elegance of her self-awareness is always so moving.

Another quote I liked:
Every child has to raise itself.
Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father

from the young kirks

2019.11.21

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that last one of my dad and Grandpa doesn't have me in per se, but if I combine the caption on the back (Reunion 1973) together with family lore, I think it is very likely taken on the day I was conceived...

from high school photos

2019.11.23
Final day of photos scanned from my mom's collection... after high school I was more on my own for documenting my life in photos....

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Aunt Susan and Uncle Bill smooching over my inflatable T-rex named Sir. (Variation of an old joke ala What would YOU call a Dinosaur in real life?)


I had Chicken Pox at a fairly old age... not a great look but yow, those collar bones.


Jeff Kropf, whom we called "sahib" when he was our marching band squad leader, here shown in front of 222 Street Jazz. (Must have been a photo nabbed from the yearbook project.)


Me and Toni Y!


Me Mike Wendy and Lynn...


Veronika...


Veronika Kirk Heidi Mike Maria and Ellen.... EHS cafeteria. Wonder why Mike and I are in ties...

Sometimes, magazines hid their best 'Huh?' moments deep inside stories that were otherwise utterly normal. I was drowsing through a Newsweek cover story called 'Clinton Now' when suddenly a comment by Julia Payne, the ex-president's spokeswoman, made me laugh out loud. 'One night last year he called about 1 a.m, ranting and raving about something,' Payne recalled. 'And I said, "Sir, are you watching Fox again?"'
Peter Carlson in a Washington Post article in 2003.
These days.... that's just how the presidency works! Fox tells Trump what to think. The relationship can be a little adversarial, but it's pretty clear Trump trusts fellow television personalities more than diligent people in the government.

from February 27, 2021

2021.02.27
Decided I wanted to move to something simpler and less chaotic than my Wall O' Peeps and decided to get a thing from inkifi.com - a single largeish framed 4 x 13 grid of square cropped photos. (and I'm labeling them here just for fun...)
melissa
foosball
jon + lilia + sophie
cora + mama c
johnny + jphonk
arun + bolt
liz + kazoo
mama k + cora
forager
me + scheiny
david + hunter
e
amber
hannah+mindy+
johnny
ariana
ksenia
cmg
joshua+erin
jz
john
miller
kay
cordelia
mo
lupschada
lee
jane
eb
habib
sarah
dylan
rebekah
lena
veronika
jen
marnie
kyle
judith
couch
mike,wendy,lynn
jenny + ellen
w/ toni
marcos + baptista
melas+uncle bill
w/ todd
beau
cornell
santa + dad
cousins+grandma
w/ papa sam
mom
I find it satisfying to (once again) plumb my photographic past and find photos meaningful to me, mostly because of who is in them but also with an eye towards the visually arresting. And this arrangement was interesting... I decided to build from the bottom up chronologically, with my parents anchoring the corners. Sometimes I used choice of photo or proximity (or lack thereof) to make a message or a joke. I used more photos that didn't show up in previous projects.

from November 18, 2022

2022.11.18
November 18, 1972 - 50 Years Ago Today Betty Scheinfeldt and James Israel got married!


from May 4, 2023

2023.05.04


via shhhitsfine.
Speaking of... this recently unearthed photo from Christmas '79, listening to my dad's heart with a stethoscope I got in a toy doctor kit.




from goodbye friend

2023.08.21
Melissa and I had to say goodbye to our dear kitty Dean today - (given his medicine regimen over the past few years we weren't taken unawares but the speed of decline this past week and then this last day were a shock.)

He was such a sweet and snuggly cat. Melissa was thinking of a younger female cat when she first went to the shelter but Dean The Love Machine's (the shelter's nickname for him) head boop was irresistible.

And he was brave! Fellow cat people were impressed by how out and about he was when we had folks over for my birthday...

So here are some photos. I think the biggest compliment we had as his Humans was when someone pointed how relaxed a cat he must be, showing his belly to the world like that in this one photo...

(title is a little riff on a "hello friend" greeting Melissa often used for Dean)

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