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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Rest in Peace, My Brother
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Sunday, September 13, 2020
First Birthday without Tim
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Home Movie No. 1
Monday, July 27, 2020
Hart Winery
Wednesday, July 01, 2020
Anne Sexton — Smith Corona Typewriter
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Sea Breeze
Monday, June 22, 2020
My Brother's Retirement
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
They Closed My Favorite Starbucks
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Digital Graduation
Monday, May 11, 2020
At the Melville Winery in Santa Barbara County
I found this video in my file of old Flip Videos. The Flip Video was great, true point-and-shoot. Just a couple of buttons, easy to use, the ideal video camera to put in your pocket and carry around.
Saturday, May 02, 2020
Somatic Tinnitus
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
My Cow Pasture Backyard
This is what happens to a yard when you don’t do anything to it for months. You don’t mow it. You don’t trim it. You don’t even go out and look at it. You end up with a cow pasture. We do have some nice California poppies growing wild.
Saturday, April 11, 2020
My Smith-Corona Electra 210
This typewriter is an elite machine which types 12 characters per inch. It’s a good, steady typer and I use it often.
Thursday, April 09, 2020
Robert Lowell and Tom Fasano
The older I get the more I look like the poet Robert Lowell. If I could write poetry like Lowell, I’d be set.
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
Typing on a Smith-Corona Electra 210
Monday, April 06, 2020
Smith Corona Electra 210
This was one of the first typewriters I ever acquired — before I learned that Robert Caro types all his books on an Electra 210, a fact that turned me into a devotee of this old typer. Typing on this machine is a pure joy and makes me think that something important has gone out of the writing process in the digital world. This is not my opinion, but that of a few serious thinkers.
Sunday, April 05, 2020
My Famous Typewriter
An upcoming book about the history of typewriters and keyboards used a photo of my old Woodstock No. 5 typewriter. The author said he’d been unable to find a machine that still had the decals on it, which is rare for a typewriter manufactured in 1917. Whether it was owned at one time by the infamous spy Alger Hiss is another matter. The typewriter, by the way, works beautifully. How many of our digital gadgets will still be operational 100 years from now?
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
COVID-19 Diary #2
After teaching school all day online, I got out for my afternoon walk. For the first time this year, it felt like an actual spring day, temperature in the lower 70s and a cool breeze. It was a welcomed change from being cooped up all day teaching from home.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Covid-19 Diary #1
On my daily walk I’ve been noticing these signs on the campus of Pomona College, a favorite strolling site of mine.
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Tim Voting 2012
Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post |
From the Washington Post: TAMPA, FL – JANUARY 31:
Tim Fasano, 55, shows off his “I Voted” sticker next to his Buccaneer patch at a voting precinct in north downtown Tampa, Florida on January 31, 2012. Fasano is Italian, has lived in Tampa the last fifteen years and said he voted for Newt Gingrich over Romney because of “Romney’s negative campaigning”. He said Romney failed to explain his Romneycare in Massachusetts. Ybor City, nearby, is home to a lot of hispanics, Italians, African Americans. Its history dates back to the day when cigars factories were steady work here.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Starbucks Laptop People
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Karl Shapiro
This is the only filmed interview I’ve been able to find of the great poet Karl Shapiro. It’s sourced from a 16mm film by Karl Shapiro and Arthur Hoyle, Santa Monica, CA: Pyramid Films, 1976.
Charles Lawler Sculpture
I spotted this sandstone sculpture in front of the Pomona College Art Museum. The sculptor, Charles Lawler, taught at Pomona College at Claremont from 1949-57.
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Sunny California
My neighbors are moving and had a yard sale. The mannequin belongs to us and is named Gloria. This house appears to be guarded by cera...
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I’ve been driving around town scouting locations for my independent film. Today in Griffith Park I found a beautiful bench designed by lo...
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Using manual processes to write in this digital age might appear odd or anachronistic — perhaps even an affectation. But I don’t care. I us...