A Stock Photomontage

Didn't get around too much today. Took a couple pictures. These are some of the server network boards at the Corcoran's Georgetown campus. Some flowers on 33rd St NW.


I did get some pictures of an old aquaintance ... Army Mike. He needs $42 for a bus ticket to Danville, Va. This is a photo of him advertising for me, or as they say in the advertising business, "Hold this a sec while I take your picture." Happy 46th Birthday Army Mike!

During the Day We Have Horse Cops(I thought they were only for the touristy neighborhoods?)

The 42 to Mt. Pleasant, Columbus Day,10:25pm.


Columbus Day ... days after the "Running Gun Battle," a squad car and a mobile police headquarters van are an ever-present fixture in front of the 7-11 on Mt. Pleasant St. There are also a few media vans but I think they just watch t.v. in the back.

BREAKFAST AT THE WAFFLE SHOP, COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, WASH. D.C.

This is Bernardino from Honduras. He is an electrician working on the renovation of the Tivoli Theater on 14th and Park NW. He was enjoying a light breakfast of coffee and a tamale. We all talked about the violence in the area lately with the help of my friend and translator M. E. Sprengelmeyer, a Scripps Howard News Service journalist. He translated for me. "Th' marijuana an coca," was Bernardinos guess for the recent outbreak in latino gang violence in the Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights neighborhoods.






[You going to eat that carrot?]

### MOUTH PIECE ###

Took this photo in an alley connecting Kilbourne with Lamont in Mt. Pleasant. Was walking to eat some good Salvadorian breakfast in Columbia Heights at the Waffle Shop. Met my friend Sprengelmeyer there. Not what you would expect of a place called the Waffle Shop! This place is a real experience, worth rough alley walking. (Ha)


[probably dropped by the daughter of a soccer mom]

** 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!)