Cool Walk

I love walking home in the middle of the night when the wind is blowing and it's freezing cold. It is the only way to travel in Maine, one step at a time.
My only complaints, the wind isn't strong enough to blow the snow to the degree of blinding (making my $5 investment in clear UV glasses less valuable), and it's not cold enough (they over use the word 'arctic' in our weather reports), and there are no moose or polar bears. boooorinG. At least I can count on the occasional carload of small town bullies trying to jump me.
Awesome! Running down the center of the street from the bad dudes out of a '90s sitcom, and I'm stuck in an '80s feel-good movie.
Vacationland!

Digital Archive Photo

This digital archive photo from Feb. 8, 2008 shows a suspected digital photo archive in the Kennebec Journal newsroom.

Crime Scene

Last month a car full of kids almost ran me over and then got out of the car, pushed me down and kicked me in the head. It was a Friday night in the Tim Horton's parking lot on Western Avenue in Augusta Maine. They broke one of my Nikon lenses, my Nikon D1X camera, and left a scar on my head. I filed a report with the Augusta Maine Police Department. Nothing has come of the investigation yet.
Last night, a Friday night, the same kids waited for me in the State Armory parking lot on Western Avenue in Augusta Maine. They were in a dark green 4-door Mercury Sable or Ford Taurus. Approximately a 2004 model. Three of them got out of the car an approached me with short sleeved shirts on. I ran across the street. They yelled threatening things, then got in the car and drove west, then east down Western Avenue.
I called the police. I spoke to Augusta Maine Police Officer Day who said he'd see the car driving around. The investigation is still underway, I think.

(i-)Recovering from a Crash(Tunes)

11:24 AM me: oh it was$191, 000
Katie: yes
11:25 AM me: i am making art out of it, and you helped me
11:27 AM Katie: i helped you make art
11:28 AM i helped you find the title of your book
me: yup, thanks
Katie: do i get a credit?
special shout out in the book?
:)
me: nope, later

Augusta, Bath, Portland & Hallowell Maine

I-95 South around Richmond Maine, approximately 7:30 a.m.


Courthouse, West Bath: and The Chocolate Church, Bath Maine


A church in Bath Maine


Wilderness along I-95 Maine


My truck along the Eastern Promenade Portland Maine


Building on the Eastern Promenade and B&M Baked Beans in Portland Maine


Picked up my photos from a show at SPACE Gallery in Portland and at Harlow Gallery in Hallowell Maine. Hallowell Maine


Dynamic Driving Class, Augusta Technical Center, Augusta Maine


My neighbor Donna took a picture of one of her lizards on my shoulder.

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Slates Restaurant, Hallowell Maine


Water Street, Augusta Maine


Lithgow Library & Reading Room, Augusta Maine


Vacuums, Augusta Maine

One Plane Maine

Sometimes while I feel like I don't have enough daylight hours in my life anymore I think I should take a ride in a plane to be closer to the sun.

Vacuum Slideshow Practice

I bought the wrong vacuum filter at Augusta Vacuum & Supply a couple days ago. When I went back to exchange the wrong filter for the right filter I also attempted to make a slideshow. I blame the poor edit on the software, QuickTime Pro. And the poor audio on my i-pod recorder, no good mic. I think I'll do another edit, or get some better slideshow software.

My Exciting Maine

The most exciting thing that happened in my life yesterday, a plane flew over a tree. I wonder if that broken spy satellite will land in Maine. I'm foreseeing it crushing me as I walk down Western Avenue dodging impatient drivers in the crosswalk.

Genetically Modified People

Genetically Modified People, GMPs. They are everywhere. You're one of them and there's not too much you can do about it with out going through some major sacrifices.
I try to eat more from my own kitchen, or at least local kitchens and restaurants, than from vending machines and chains. I'm hoping it will make me less GMPish. Less reliant on Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs. But it's hard to buy or know you're buying organic 100 percent of the time. I'm not even sure 'organic' is as organic as it once was, considering cross-fertilization.
GMOs are not only making us weaker by providing us with less-nutrient rich, allergenic, toxic, antibiotic resistant food, but GMOs are make killers of GMPs. The three closest calls I've had in Maine with cars - nearly being run over - was not because of the icy, treacherous sidewalks (slippery catwalks along a busy logging truck trails), but because I came between vehicles carrying GMPs to get GMOs at a 'drive-thru.' Augusta Maine has a lot of driv-thrus on Western Avenue. I walk past them frequently.
Drive-thrus should be outlawed for a number of reasons, like promoting glutenous inactivity and heart disease.
Bangor Maine was the first U.S. city to outlaw smoking in a car with children under 18.
Soda and drive-thrus are the new cigarettes.

Ron Paul in Maine

Ron Paul at the Maine Statehouse in Augusta Maine. Talking about the Ron Paul-icies of Ron Paul-itics.


Ron Paul, the man behind the curtain.