Monthly Archives: June 2008

[Words I have read]
He didn’t get a single photograph.

Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 by Alex

Bob Jackson doesn’t know what happened, or where the press car is going now, or why, only that it is following the rest of the motorcade toward Stemmons Freeway at a high speed. He is still holding his empty camera … Continue reading →

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[Other output]
When You Are Engulfed (in Flame).

Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 by Alex

I took [some pictures] of Harvard Book Store’s David Sedaris book talk and signing.

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[This thing that I have read]
People were indifferent to what was said.

Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 by Alex

So Benny told Jim the story of why Marcia was mad at him. Since becoming employed full-time again, he had grown aware of a phenomena that seemed to happen only at work, or at least happen with more frequency at … Continue reading →

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[Words that I have read]
Nostalgia for the present.

Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 by Alex

My final day at the [Disneyland] magic shop, I stood behind the counter where I had pitched Svengali decks and the Incredible Shrinking Die, and I felt an emotional contradiction: nostalgia for the present. Somehow, even though I had stopped … Continue reading →

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[These are words that I have read]
A Primer.

Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 by Alex

A Primer by Bob Hicok I remember Michigan fondly as the place I go to be in Michigan. The right hand of America waving from maps or the left pressing into clay a mold to take home from kindergarten to … Continue reading →

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