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This is Meridian Hill Park at midnight. Walked through it tonight to get home from a popular D.C. music venue, the Black Cat. A lot of creepy guys hang out there at night but nothing too exciting. I went through the dried up fountain and climbed the waterless falls to the top, til I saw a cop. Then I took the sidewalk. I was thinking on a previous walk by Meridian Hill Park, the greenery smells like musty bedclothes ... probably the people who live in there.

[Meridian Hill Park is closed May-Oct, midnight to 5am and Nov-April 9pm to 5am.]

Kilbourne Pl NW, Washington, D.C. (Mt. Pleasant)

Nice day today. A breeze going down the street. A couple trees on the block are turning colors. The temperature is almost chilly. The days are getting shorter and it's nice to see the change into autumn, goodbye summer. Hopefully I get some action shots or something more interesting tomorrow.

[[ My First Pupusas ]]

I went to class 45 minutes early. Drank coffee. That still didn't help me stay awake during that african art film. It is a very interesting subject. (A whole new way of looking at our own art is found when we understand how Western Eyes have brought new meaning to another cultures objects.) Did a lot of work inside today. I didn't take very many pictures but I got this one while eating papusas for the first time. Pollo Deli has nice chicken burritos so I think I'll stick with one of those next time.

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).]