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Oct.30.2009
It has been a very, very long time (four months) since I wrote about the assault of the pigeons on the West coast of this great land, and in particular on the light well outside my kitchen, and no doubt many of you have wondered about the status of this epic battle for the soul of America. My sense...
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Oct.25.2009
WHO IS MARIO?
Outside of the customs cubicle, inside the front sliding doors to the Leon Airport in Mexico, my driver held an overhead cardboard sign with my last name hand printed on it: CAMPBELL.
I followed him outside where he placed my two travel bags in the trunk of the white Lexus. While...
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Oct.22.2009
San Francisco in the minds of many conjours up images of Golden Gate Bridges and Seaside views; of Active faultlines and Busy streets. The city of the impossible, as I call it, is the only city I know where a small town denzien feels welcomed and a big city dweller feels at home. A person whose...
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Oct.21.2009
I grew up in small town Illinois. That was my childhood. There were tractor pulls, pep rallies where they actually piled up wood and had bonfires, as often as not stealing that wood from the barns, outhouses, and sheds of surrounding farms. We lived in the middle of Neil Gaiman's amazing novel...
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Oct.19.2009
All you need is love, says the song. But that’s ridiculous. You need a room, too, and a harmonica. What were the Beatles thinking?
Still, I miss those times when pop artists wrote songs that meant something, and none more so than Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, a quintessentially American band led...
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Oct.15.2009
Just returned from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Internet sites explain that people travel to San Miguel to study art, learn Spanish and take Mexican cooking classes, if not moving there to live in the delightful historic town in central Mexico. I write that people go there to drown in tequila....
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Sep.29.2009
He's unloading huge, rounded river stones from the back of his truck. I ask what he's making. The mason, currently of Fort Bragg, California, lately of San Diego and before that a lifetime pitched in Park City, Utah, where he lay rock, mounded fireplaces and bricked walks for the rich and famous,...
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Sep.26.2009
Just wanted to thank everyone on Red Room for checkin out my page, my book, reading my blogs, and reviewing my videos and interviews - over 4000 views this year.
More to come- I'm working on a tv show on photography, two new books, and capturing lots of new images!
Here's one recently shot along...
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Sep.02.2009
My son told me he was getting married in Mexico next month and that my attendance was required. I was thrilled about the wedding but not the location. He had vacationed in Mexico several times and loved the cultural atmosphere, sun-drenched beaches, humid mountainous terrains, beer, food and the...
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Aug.29.2009
"ASTRONAUT GOES FROM MIGRANT FIELDS TO OUTER SPACE"
For José M. Hernández
The boy squatting with a wood and wire crate In Salinas has finally risen Above his station, California almost Beautiful from this distance. Now when he bends To the heavy glass he’s...
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