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try me

toilet stall, massachusetts turnpike, lee, massachusetts

i love the radiating lines off of the mushroom. as if it's the solution to all life's problems. the previous occupant of this throne clearly thought so.

morning in america

greeting the day, lavallette, new jersey

life in a beach town moves lackadaisically. the only thing they seem to take seriously is american flags. four weeks after the memorial day-thru-independence day festival of jingoism, this house with the single flag is distinctly on the low end of the bell curve, as far as number of flags is concerned. we're talking dozens here. and considering recent events, they were thoughtful enough to fly (multiple) british flags on several houses and yards. ironic, considering it's hardly something the british themselves would do.

26things/december2004

26 things, a photo scavenger hunt. click for more.

every time i do one of these, i say to myself that i swear i'm going to do a better job, but at the end, i still find myself scouring my iphoto library for the last half-dozen. damn, these thing are hard. i am not displeased with the results, however; some of the individual pictures i rather like. so that's something. and next time? next time i'll do better. really.

and yes, it

go home already

calling it a day, maynard, massachusetts

the place where i work presently is an odd old mill building, on the shore of what seems to be a man-made pond, astride a river. at night, it's often eerily calm, and you can see the rows and rows of windows reflected in the water.

slippery

a wet backside waiting to happen, newton, massachusetts

it was a wonderfully gray fall day today, and a nice excuse to go out for a walk. i sat for a few minutes and watched the drips on the slide race each other. this is what it is like to go crazy.

pixellated

looking through a deluge

about fifteen minutes of rain fell yesterday, but in such volume as to inundate everything. when i was a kid, i always liked the grid and the patterns generated in the screens by the water. they always seemed just on the verge of meaning something.

important business

road warriors' steeds, boston

it seems like peoples' tolerance for carrying things has reduced to nil in the past ten years. any bag larger than a backpack seems to have wheels on it, and use of those wheels is de rigeur even for the shortest walk. i see people in my office deploy their wheels to walk from their car to their office. why they need to bring so much shit to work is an equally interesting question.

nothing's too good...

...for our kids. onset, ma >>

how can we be so solicitous to our kids in some ways, buying them the entire fucking little tikes catalog, protecting them from everything that could remotely bear some kind of germ, jealously keeping naughty things off the tv, yet at the same time exercise little to no critical thinking about sending them off to war?

midair

radio tower, newton, ma

one of the nice things about living in a forest of tv and radio towers is that when it's foggy or rainy, they disappear into the clouds in such a way as to appear infinite. i took this playing around with the long lens that my sister let me borrow; this was actually taken from my cubicle at work, roughly a mile from this particular tower.

long night

cubicle life after hours, needham, massachusetts

cubicles are inherently boring, so i put three pictures in one so you can be three times as bored. does anyone else find it amusing/depressing that printers are invariably accompanied by recycling bins? mustn't it be disconcerting for a printer to see so much of its output unceremoniously discarded mere seconds after completion? hell, no wonder they break all the time. that would make me neurotic too. these long nights at work are, in fact, making me crazy.

unfinished

office remodeling, needham, ma, for this week's theme thursday.

i took this picture a little while ago. this is the first time i've done one of these weekly challenge thingys. i'm guessing you're probably supposed to take a really fresh picture, but this one just struck me as too perfect to pass up.

working late

needham, ma, usa