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Tag Archives: photo of the day
Photo of the Day: I miss all the smut
I moved to New York in the final gasps of the Smut Era. 8th Avenue was lined with peep shows and little porn theatres. Girls working their way through college, as the signs said. Sex workers greeted cars as they … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: sunset beautiful and sad
One of my favorite beaches in Rhode Island. It’s stunning and the little seashore town is trapped in time. It looks like an 1890s resort town. Still. White clapboard walls. Rustic. In February 2009, a month after my father died, … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: The aftermath
2011’s Hurricane Irene was really bad. But then came Hurricane Sandy. I documented much of it on here, when I could, which was a problem because the power was knocked out for a week. What I went through was a … Continue reading
Photo of the Day
This is Mitchell and Jackie. Two of my dearest friends. We met in college. We then all ended up in Chicago together. I crashed with Jackie when I first landed in Chicago. Then I got my own place. When Mitchell … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: I think the stairs are trying to tell us something
On the corner of 6th Avenue and 14th Street, there’s a building, and there used to be a rehearsal studio on the second floor. I don’t know if it’s there anymore. I imagine not. New York has changed so much, … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: There’s just something about Los Angeles
Los Angeles is so foreign to me. Every time I go, I am bombarded with visual sensations. It just doesn’t look like anything I grew up with, or am familiar with. I love going there because I’m constantly being awe-struck … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Ice storm
I woke up one morning in Chicago to an ice storm. I was living right behind the Music Box Theatre (in the apartment where my man used to climb through my bedroom window at 3 in the morning). My roommates … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: The green green grass of 8th Avenue
8th Avenue used to be my jam. Before the city closed down and I stopped going in. I have only been in the city 3 or 4 times since the pandemic started, and each time I was going to stay … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: A “redcoat” ponders the future
Of all the photos I’ve taken, this is one of my favorites. It was one of those moments where you’re thrilled to have a camera nearby. I still had a flip-phone, no camera in my phone – at least not … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Queen Mary
I took these at dusk down on the pier in Long Beach. This is the Queen Mary, a huge ship owned by the University of California at Long Beach- there’s a big theatre inside it. My friend Alex – a … Continue reading