last day of the year: a brief photo essay

366/366: "Empty eyeballs knew that knowledge increases unreality, that mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show"

365/366: three studies on texture: skate writing, ode to high modernism, dangerous masonry

364/366: still life with needles, leaves, and a simple man

363/366: road closed to

362/366: a frayed (of) memory

361/366: escapism

360/366: season's greetings from the bloated belly of anomie; or, three studies on neoliberalism

359/366: fun time is over; or, prohibitions study; or, kelly will kick yo ass

Debbie Downer presents . . . home for the holidays.

358/366: official certified goon

interlude: "That must have been highly diverting, said he. I see. He see. He drank. With faraway mourning mountain eye. Set down his glass."

357/366: is it a house? an apartment? a motel? is it white? does it have a vacancy? who knows? who could know!

356/366: case studies in rebranding: uncle ben

355/366: our lady of the control panel

354/366: country kitsch meets ghetto fabulous

353/366: ybor city

352/366: dragon of steel and spanish moss

351/366: gears, almost

350/366: topographical design

349/366: six twenty-nine

For no good reason, I decided to quote from the Apocrypha:

1. Sirach 6:29
Then her fetters will become for
you a strong protection,
and her collar a glorious robe.

2. second Maccabees 6:29
And those who a little before had acted toward him with good will now changed to ill will, because the words he had uttered were in their opinion sheer madness.

348/366: abstract expressionistic rust composition

347/366: radio frequency environment area

346/366: fishy

345/366: postmodern formalism

344/366: strange wall with curvature and bottles

343/366: don't conform

342/366: foxy

341/366: rusty composition

340/366: about face

339/366: ghost

338/366: railing

337/366: still life with bouganvillea leaf, fag end, and metal inlay

336/366: red

335/366: lost in the funhouse

334/366: green planet

333/366: Balboa Park

332/366: her

Today I am thankful for her.

331/366: return of poop