Sunday, January 29, 2017

Day 1401


Day 1400


Saturday, January 28, 2017

Day 1399


Thursday, January 26, 2017

Day 1398


Day 1397


Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Day 1396


Monday, January 23, 2017

Day 1395


The Spectacular World of Post-Fact Demagoguery (love letter to Guy Debord)

I watched on television, like everyone else, and wondered
if the word "carnage" had ever been used in a previous address?
I heard words with no fixed meaning congeal into

alternating 
sen
ten
ces

that would sound 
equally comfortable in

millennial Burlington
or
Munich between the wars.

I watched out the window, like a party insider, and wondered
why they chose to host 30 Republican Governors
overlooking the parade route's designated protest area?


A truly amazing American idea:

"the approved protester"
g
n
i
t
s
i
o
h
a sign reading:
FASCIST
as the motorcade passed by.

Three blocks away
"anarchists"
set fire to 

one car

one trashcan
and smashed

two windows

(no coffee was injured)

Remember what "anarchists" looked like at the end of the last millennium?





 

 
Before the "revolution" of social media?


I watched the following day, like a voyeur, as 
groups gathered in Cumberland Park to raise 
signs and voices and pose for the camera.

Facebook
Instagram
Twitter

ex p  l   o     d        i           n                    g

images
of protests
images
of solidarity
images
of change

"Liberal" media outlets proudly compared:

this inauguration to that.

I watched on Sunday, bleary-eyed, as the Press
Secretary admonished the media for misrepresenting
the image and the absurdity of his admonishment
led to the propagation of more images:

protest
and 
celebration

These images
deafening as cicadas 
left 
me feeling
more sad and afraid
than any time since that cold
Wednesday morning in November.


"The spectacle is not a collection of images... 
it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."

Day 1394


Sunday, January 22, 2017

Day 1393


Friday, January 20, 2017

Day 1392


Thursday, January 19, 2017

Day 1391


Day 1390


Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Day 1389


Monday, January 16, 2017

Day 1388


Day 1387


Sunday, January 15, 2017

Day 1386


Day 1385


Day 1384


Thursday, January 12, 2017

Day 1383


Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Day 1382


Day 1381


Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Day 1380


Sunday, January 8, 2017

Day 1379



First snow of the season!

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Day 1378


Friday, January 6, 2017

Day 1377


Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Day 1376


Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Day 1375


Day 1374


Monday, January 2, 2017

Day 1373



Last morning in San Diego...

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Day 1372



Hiking at Torrey Pines...