Artifact: Camera, large format with bellows (Okayama, Japan)
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Meta Pod notes
Riff: Podcast non-best practices / to S. Pratt
In a message to Steve Pratt, a podcast producer and former of CBC Radio 3 who gave a stellar speech
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: Japan stamps of Importantcy
If the stamps say so, must truly be IMPORTANT.
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Phones (pay + desk)
Collection: Payphones (vol. 7) – assorted / Japan, Whidbey island
Hello to the people in the future, What follows are public telephones created in a time when phones did not
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: Cards, rec’d from farthest reaches of ocean & continents (Jan. 2020)
Another postcard bonanza (“bonanza” used again for pal in Dubai) from such remote areas and the ghost of Shackleton) Ergo:
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Personal Musings
Books: Reading List, circa (2018-2109)
My pal Erica on Steamboat island invited me to post 10 books for 10 days and invite 10 people or
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Portraits of the Artiste
Character: Workman on Break, with Pipe
After repairing farm equipment since early morn, Winston takes in a bit of sunshine with a pipe on the porch…
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Shoebox
Numbers Station Sending Alert for Action
From Prague to Irkutsk to Montevideo, shortwave radios broadcast voices, numbers and patterns. Origins (generally) unknown beyond speculators and bureaucratic
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Writing Life
Quote: J. D. McClatchy, regarding poets
“A poet — as distinct from other, perhaps more persuasive, kinds of writers — can only unstitch the weave of
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Japan Life/Travel, Notes to Future Self
Riff: Japan Imperial Era Names, a brief primer
Maybe you noticed my affinity towards dropping in Japan imperial era names in reference to “Showa this” or “Taisho that”
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: Cards Received, Jan. 2020, various
What a postal bonanza of late! Dispatches from Budapest, Nozawa onsen, Connecticut, Vancouver, Valencia + Kanazawa’s D. T. Suzuki museum
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Collections of Artifacts, Portraits of the Artiste
Memento: Barber (vol. 4, only Okayama)
A little coif maintenance with a friendly barber named Touse-san in the neighbourhood called 理容タカシマ PS I am the one
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