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The Dark Magic of Author Photos

By On February 14, 2012 · 5 Comments · In Fotoz, Publishing, Typign, vanitas

I have a confession to make about my author photo: It’s a lie.

Heavily retouched, populated with “reader-friendly” elements, what you see to the right is a complete fabrication.

I don’t own a dog. (I accumulate cats.)

I don’t ride old-school, vintage, soulful longboards. (I ride short boards, newish ones, and I’m an [...]

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a 40 oz for 40 yo

By On August 8, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Fotoz, kultur, L-I-V-I-N, vanitas

40oz, a photo by dontoine on Flickr.

I’m turning 40 on Friday.

And so naturally I just spent a few days scouring the web for a good image of someone pouring out a 40 oz of malt liquor, as a sort of memento mori.

Or, I should say, as a variation [...]

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vanitrash

By On November 10, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Hollyweird, tee vee, vanitas

So the other morning I thought of a vanity plate I might like.

UNIQUE2

Though now that I think of it, that joke could get old very quickly.

Anyway, I checked on it. UNIQUE{1-9} are all taken.

Also, I saw the Sex and the City movie.

It is a culturally and morally bankrupt travesty, [...]

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cosmic alignment of whatnot

By On June 7, 2007 · 5 Comments · In Publishing, vanitas, WTF

You might recognize this license plate from The Interloper, chapter three, where Owen mentions having seen it on Palm Canyon Drive.

I didn’t make it up.

I saw it, back in high school, in Palm Springs, and it made me laugh.

For some reason I remembered it and stuck it in my novel [...]

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camouflage

By On May 20, 2007 · 1 Comment · In vanitas

Some of you commented that my most recent post was your favorite. Either you like to watch state officials in their youth smoking weed, or you are naturally drawn to the aesthetics of the cameraphone picture. I’m going to roll the dice that it’s the latter.

First of all, loyal readers know that I’ve [...]

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Westside license plate of the day

By On September 12, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In vanitas

Spotted this one in the Vicente Foods parking lot yesterday, in Brentwood:

An exciting moment for me, because I’ve seen this plate go through several cars over the past few years, and this was the first time I got a glimpse of the driver, the eponymous dynamite wife.

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westside license plate of the day

By On August 29, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In vanitas, WTF

On the largest of Lexus SUV’s:

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westside license plate of the day

By On August 22, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In vanitas

Spotted today on a sparkling BMW 7 series:

Driving a hooptie? I guess Jesus hates you.

[thanks to the ACME licensemaker]

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