I’m home alone on Friday night after a trying week, trying due to too much exposure to, and consideration of, both the presidential election and the effort I put into being a writer, a photographer, and a fledgling business owner versus the financial reward I have thus far enjoyed from any of these creative things. [...]
Hello, and welcome to Tokyo. My name is Television… …and I’ll be your host. It would be my honor to entertain you today. Would you like to start with the news…? You don’t even need to go outside, because I can show you the weather too… Tired of the weather? How [...]
Aren’t things viewed in transparent globes supposed to be upside down? Or maybe the view through them has been right all along, and it is the world that’s inverted. I don’t know. The crystal balls our gypsy mothers gave us have been tuned to a wrong or dead channel for centuries. Our attempts to see [...]
I keep an archive on my computer of all the photos I have taken with my current cell phone. And I probably shouldn’t save as many as I do. Too many of them are, like the photos below, on the ragged edge between garbage and art. Oh well, no one hates my work as much [...]
My wife and I were in Tokyo three years ago, staying in Nakano near Nakano Broadway in a vacation rental apartment. We didn’t go out much at night, mostly because we were too damned exhausted from hoofing it all over Tokyo during the day. And when you combine all that activity with middle age and [...]
