It’s 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning and I’m on the porch, experimenting with my camera’s white balance, taking long exposure shots of objects lit by the distant glow of street lights. The hue of the sodium vapor lamps is so warm, ...
My Old Days: TV
Julian explaining how things were in the good old days, talking about “television.” My Old Days: TV from thevirtualimage on Vimeo.
Cultural competence
A while ago, a friend said our children have “cultural competency.” Last night at a GRPS picnic I watched all the kids playing with each other, this unintentionally diverse mix of little humans. And it hit me: “cultural competency” is ...
[SEX!] Online [MURDER!] voting
It can be healthy to differentiate between process and purpose. Voting, for example, is a process: its purpose is to gauge the will of the electorate. Presently, we can vote at polling places, and by mailing in ballots. Some military ...
Outsourcing
Below is a list of works that first were published elsewhere. These links (below) will take you to the original essays as they appeared in these publications. This page will be maintained and updated as additional links are added. RAPID ...
Protected: This is my rifle.
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Let’s Go Crazy!
Religion and rock ‘n roll once existed in opposition to one another. Of course, those days are gone: they eventually intersected, maybe merged, and definitely borrowed from one another. Gods, saints, devils, sacred hymns, purity, temptation, gluttony, worshiping openly, arenas, ...
No Longer Interested In Russians
A rooftop, Manhattan At one in the morning And you said something That I’ve never forgotten -PJ Harvey, “You Said Something” In 1999, I tended bar at an upscale restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. I worked for an impeccably ...
Oh Lord, Please Don’t Burn Us
I wasn’t trying to make a joke of it, I really wasn’t. I was raised a Christian. I’ve sat through a thousand sermons, taken Communion many hundreds of times, and been baptized twice. Regardless: once you’ve seen “Life of Brian” a certain number of times, “peacemakers” becomes “cheesemakers”…
These Vibrations Oil Its Teeth
Two one eyed dogs, they’re looking at stereos – Modest Mouse, “Polar Opposites” A paranoid friend once told me cocaine residue is present on 90% of all paper currency in circulation, in the United States. Then he leaned in closer. ...