Adventures in personal publishing
I can’t remember the first horror movie that I saw. I started young — too young for today’s ninny standards — by dragging my babysitter to the local video rental store during my parents’ weekly outing and insisting I was allowed to watch whatever. Whenever she balked at a particularly gory or salacious cover, my little […]
WordPress 5.5 was released last night, and it began the long process of updating the bundled jQuery javascript library to a more current version. Unfortunately, it also broke a number of plugins and themes, causing javascript errors and strange behavior throughout the dashboard and front end. The first problem I noticed on my site were […]
04-19-2020
BOOKS ARE HAUNTED OBJECTS
The Dickson Street bookshop is one of my favorite places on Earth, and one of the best used bookstores in the nation, bar none.
04-19-2020
NO SUCH THING AS BAD LIGHT
Photographers generally avoid shooting in mid day. Fortunately I'm too compulsive to refuse any light.
Early last year I bought a new camera. I’d been a casual shutterbug at various times before, but always wound up quitting within a few weeks or months. This time, though, was different. This time, the perfectionism and anxiousness and preordained sense of defeat that clung to every previous snap of the shutter were gone. […]
02-19-2020
A TEAR IN THE FABRIC
Lake Fayetteville just after dusk.
02-19-2020
#1,231 IN A SERIES
I haven't actually taken 1,230 photos of this abandoned pump station in Lake Fayetteville. Only four or five hundred. Totally reasonable.
02-19-2020
RUNNING UP THAT HILL
Parents rarely feel just one way about something. Every time I see her run, I'm half caught dreading she'll fall and half caught hoping she'll fly.
02-19-2020
MARC REBILLET AT NOMAD'S
A terrific performer. If you're not following Marc's YouTube Channel, then you don't know what it means to improvise.
02-18-2020
A GIRL AND HER DOG
They’re still working out who’s who in the social order.
