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Waiting room No. 48Rainy first day of December 2019 in Fresno, CA and that’s a good day for a Niilo Smeds record #goldrobotrecords #niilosmedsI know I just posted about David Berman’s last record, Purple Mountains, but I can’t stop listening to it. What a staggering, unexpected, and tragic elegy. #davidberman #dragcityStarting my day off with some vinyl therapy, courtesy the Portland Latinx trio Sávila. Saw this band at Mississippi Studios in Pdx when they opened for the surf rock grrls La Luz two summers ago, and then this past summer I found a copy of their LP in the used bin at Little Axe Records in Pdx’s Hollywood District. They got the smoothness I need today. #savilabandI’m so glad I picked up this vinyl copy of Deerhunter’s 2010 masterpiece, Halcyon Digest. Used to play the hell out of this record when I had a college radio show. Feels as urgent and interstellar almost a decade on as it did then. #halcyondigest #4adrecordsA rare weekday afternoon to myself at home and I’m playing the last David Berman record and hanging with my dog and sometimes crying. Purple Mountains to the max. #davidberman #dragcity #purplemountainsNew #fresnowriters tees dropping real soonFor C. W. MoultonGreat pumpkinRecent Tweets
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Creative Quest #3: To Box the Wind
I asked a poet friend recently– semi jokingly and semi seriously– if it was allowable to write a poem after Terrance Hayes, who wrote a poem after Federico García Lorca, when I haven’t studied the poetry of either writer very … Continue reading
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Creative Quest #2: Names of Old Friends
This month marks the five-year anniversary of The Perfect Peach, a collection of recipes and stories from the Masumoto Family Farm. It feels funny to say that a cookbook has deeply touched my life in all aspects. But in the … Continue reading
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Quest #1: Beauty in the Central Valley
So first, a collage poem, made from ingredients found in my neighborhood: What is beauty in this Valley? That’s hard. What kind of beauty? It could be any beauty you’d like. The mountains. Say more about why. You have a … Continue reading
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Cary Park water temporarily stopped, but now continues to flow
This past Friday, as I left the house, I spotted two white City of Fresno trucks in Cary Park. Repairmen were looking at the sprinkler heads, two days after my initial blog post about the daily watering of Augusta Street. … Continue reading
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City pauses overwatering, blames the homeless
So first, the good news. After I wrote a blog post yesterday calling out the City of Fresno for its daily watering of Augusta Street alongside Cary Park, a wide range of friends and strangers on Facebook, Twitter, and in … Continue reading
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The daily watering of Augusta Street
Local news outlets reported Tuesday that the City of Fresno would be implementing “Stage 2” water restrictions beginning Aug. 1, in response to our state’s historic drought. That means that not only will the city be limiting residents to outdoor … Continue reading
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Portrait project finds two new homes: Fowler and San Francisco
This past spring and early summer, I gave myself a photography assignment: Make 100 portraits in 100 days. After falling off the personal creativity wagon around the first of the year, while I immersed myself instead in teaching at Fresno … Continue reading
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