January 2012
3 posts
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December 2011
6 posts
4 tags
October 2011
4 posts
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
1 post
Shots in the dark
I’m about four feet away from Morgan when a guy leaving the Star Bar dance floor nearly levels her with his large, errant shoulder.
From where I stand, watching tiny-framed shot girl Morgan Talbot, I feel that teeth-gritting frustration that comes so easily when you’re stone cold sober at a crowded bar. Although I am feet away and untouched, I feel like shoving this guy and growling that...
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
5 posts
May 2011
1 post
“Bad things don’t happen to writers; it’s all material.”
– Garrison Keillor
November 2010
2 posts
October 2010
4 posts
Beyond the bar code
BEAUMONT, Texas — Most of Dennis Shaeffer’s world is digital. But Shaeffer, a self-professed technology junkie with a tech job at the Department of Defense, has a very analog hobby: rebuilding cars. Last year, while reading a magazine about Japanese drift auto racing, a small black and white square on the page caught his attention. The text directed him to download a barcode scanner on his...
September 2010
1 post
Beth's shared items on Google Reader →
Because of the nature of my job, a good portion of my day is spent on Google Reader, which has become one of my favorite things, ever. Sometimes I share things. Now I can share them with you.
August 2010
4 posts
Love, loss and Facebook: How social media can... →
July 2010
3 posts
June 2010
10 posts
WatchCamera, Camera
Westerners young and old arrive in Laos, and so do their cameras. They document a fragile and deceptively brutal world, revealing themselves in the process. CAMERA, CAMERA quietly calls upon viewers to ponder the multifaceted and often ambiguous impacts of travel and photography on citizens of two worlds.
Watchword.
May 2010
2 posts
