** Mt. Pleasant Fun **

Hello, another day and more excitement. I was over to Solomon's place and he was DJing at the window, when arouse such a clatter. Solomon watched it happen and the rest of us ran to the window to see what was the matter. Two guys in a car rammed the fence and then tried to get away real quick by ramming through a van parked there. The cops walked up while he was still trying to drive away. She told him to get out of the car, the cops were real laid back. They let the passenger drive the car away and he told them he didn't have a license. There was a little boy in the back of the car! Who knows what's next!


[video stills]

*** RUNNING GUN BATTLE ***

I came home from class and took a nap woke up and found I had just missed what Channel 8 News called a "running gun battle." This is a photo of a very polite police staff sergeant coming under the police line to ask me to stop taking photos of the crime scene. You can see the marker behind him in the glass. This is the bus stop in front of the Mount Pleasant 7-11 where the gun fight ended 4 blocks later!


[fun and excitement]

(:]X Shiver me Timbers ... X[:)

... ARRRGH, it be a BONE BUNNY! There also be a parrot in the mix, at the gallery 21 in Mount Pleasant. This is an art show featuring local D.C. artists Noah Angel, Marci Branagan, Chris Brooks and TANG. From what I can see it will be well worth it to show up during the reception Friday Oct. 10 from 6 to 8pm. Otherwise, the gallery is open Oct. 8 to 21, Wednesday to Sunday 12 to 5pm, at 1615 Kenyon St NW Washington, D.C. (Take the 42 MetroBus.)


[the gallery 21]

**Photo Assignment: Congressman Jerry Lewis, Calif. (R)**

My assignment was to shoot a politician on Capitol Hill. Through a great network i emerged with a congressman from one of my home states, California. I walked away with a much greater human feeling of politicians and some of the best portraits I've ever taken. Thank you Congressman Lewis.



[Congressman Jerry Lewis, Calif. (R), and his dog Bruin, Calif. (R).]

=-) Ahhh, To See the World Through Drunk-Colored Glasses (-=

[A photomontage reminiscent of Mount Pleasant]

#tWENTYONE LOVES OCTOBER

This is an art show featuring local D.C. artists Noah Angel, Marci Branagan, Chris Brooks and TANG. From what I can see it will be well worth it to show up during the reception Friday Oct. 10 from 6 to 8pm. Otherwise, the gallery is open Oct. 8 to 21, Wednesday to Sunday 12 to 5pm. In Mount Pleasant at 1615 Kenyon St NW Washington, D.C.

(BEERandSTUFF)

:-( You Don't Want Anything to Eat from this Kitchen )-:

(Plus, I don't have anything!)

-- Me in Kandahar --

Chris, this is the picture i was talking about. Mario took it. This one isn't edited poorly, but it's lores.



and to any one else who likes photos check out www.mariotama.com , and the ask his webmasteress why she never had time to make me a website!

***Warren***

This is Warren. He has been sleeping on the steam grate in front of the Corcoran Gallery in D.C. for the past year. I walked by during the blizzard last winter ... there was Warren! He was still on the steam grate. I though he might die there. I thought i was going to wake up one day and he would be frozen to death ... no.

I walked past yesterday and it was about 78 degrees. Warren was on the steam grate wrapped in a sleeping bag! This picture is one of the few times Warren ventured out to the Declaration of Independence Memorial ... last summer. The furthest I've seen him out since then has been on G street, a block from his squat.

(-: CHILD ART FESTIVAL :-)

"Hi, kids. I'm here to teach you about peace through art!"



Does anyone else think this is strange? ... I went to the Child Arts Festival on September 11, and one of the guest speakers was Lt Gen Joseph Cosumano, commanding officer of the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command.