Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
I think I’ve only shared these pictures with one person, but some of these are framed and going on my wall. I thought I would share them with people who might not make it to my house in the foreseeable future. There are more pictures going on the wall, but… Read More »25 Years
Proust Quote: “Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” Confessions Question: Your favorite qualities in a woman. Confidences Question: The quality I desire in a woman. Proust’s Answer: Manly virtues, and frankness in friendship. I do have to repeat – “Did I mention that Proust was gay?”… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Thirteen
Proust Quote: “All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.” Confessions Question: Your main fault. Confidences Question: My main fault. Proust’s Answer: Not knowing, not being able to “want”. Ye be warned, any that go much further. What lies below is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Twelve
“You know, my dear, the moment I looked into your eyes I knew that you did not have the mind for the noble art of Divination. See? Right here. You may be young in years but the heart that beats beneath your bosom is as shriveled as an old maid’s,… Read More »Gridiron Prophets Year 4
Proust Quote:“People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.” Confessions Question:Your favourite occupation. Confidences Question:My favorite occupation. Proust’s Answer:Loving. Proust does give a pretty darn good answer to this question. But if you were to define occupation as… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Eleven
Proust Quote: “Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.” Confessions Question: Your idea of happiness Confidences Question: My dream of happiness. Proust’s Answer: I am afraid it be not great enough, I dare not speak it, I am afraid of destroying it by speaking it. That… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Ten
Mark’s monthly newsletter from Taiwan. Hey everyone. This is more of a November email, than newsletter. My apologies for not getting a full blown newsletter, and for not sending this in a more timely manner. I wanted to give you a quick update on how things are going in Taiwan.… Read More »Taiwan Times – November 2009
Proust Quote:“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.” Confessions Question:Where would you like to live? Confidences Question:The country where I should like to live. Proust’s Answer:A country where certain things that I should like would come true as though by magic, and where tenderness… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Nine
Proust Quote:“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.” Confessions Question:Your favorite names. Confidences Question:My favorite names. Proust’s Answer:I only have one at a time. The Proust Quote really nails this… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Eight
Proust Quote: “Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.” Confessions Question: Your favorite poets. Confidences Question: My favorite poets. Proust’s Answer: Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny I’m not sure that there are any poets that I have “discovered” this year.… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Seven
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Jesse Lee (Lex) Howard. Here is but a poor sampling of pictures of the times we have shared in recent years. After beating that net! In Clinton, Iowa on The Road Trip – 2006 With the World’s Largest Cheeto Jesse’s Picture on… Read More »Happy Birthday Jesse!
Marcel Proust Quote: “Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” Confessions Question: The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with. Confidences Question: The gift of nature I would like to have. Proust’s Answer: Will-power, and seductiveness. I have many extremely talented friends.… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Six
Marcel Proust Quote:“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” Confessions Question:Your favorite qualities in a man. Confidences Question:The quality that I desire in a man. Proust’s Answer:Feminine charms. Proust and I diverge quite a bit on this answer. (Did I mention that… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Five
Marcel Proust Quote: “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” Confessions Question: Your favorite motto. Confidences Question: My motto. Proust’s Answer: I should be too afraid that it bring me misfortune. The truth is that while I learned many a thing this year, I… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Four
Today is Carrie’s birthday. Happy Birthday Carrie! Carrie got to spend a good portion of her birthday with her family and with me in Ledges. I will post some of those pictures in January. It will include a picture of the aftermath of my falling through some thin ice past… Read More »Happy Birthday and a Farewell
Today is the birthday of my nephew and the eldest son of my eldest sister. So Happy Birthday Brandon! For more quality images of Brandon, you can visit the Family Album in the Snapshots Gallery. Or you can click on the link below: Brandon Brandon has his own car… Read More »Happy Birthday Brandon!
Marcel Proust Quote: “We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.” Confessions Question: Your favorite colour and flower. Confidences Question: My favorite colour. There… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Three
Marcel Proust Quote: “We become moral when we are unhappy.” Confessions Question: What you appreciate the most in your friends. Confidences Question: What I appreciate most about my friends. Proust’s Answer: To have tenderness for me, if their personage is exquisite enough to render quite high the price of their… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Two
Marcel Proust filled out the questionnaire twice. The first time was in either 1885 or 1886 in an English confessions album. The second time was in either 1891 or 1892 in the French album Les confidences de salon. There are some questions unique to both questionnaires and the wording is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number One
As the year is winding down and I am trying to set aside more time for photo projects I have decided to do something a little bit different with this Journal in the month of December. I’ve decided to reflect on the accomplishments and failures of this past year. The… Read More »Formulaic Catechism
This day is often referred to as Turkey Day in the slacker way that some people use to be overly casual about certain events in a weak attempt to display aloofness in the vain hope that they will be perceived as cool. I am not one of those people. I… Read More »Happy Turkey Day!