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Border Christmas: Grinchy but real!

Bor­der Christ­mas: Grinchy but real!/El Paso-Dec. 24, 2008

Santa? Juarez needs one

Santa en Juarez-Dieciembre 2008 Venga Santa.…come on! If ever there was a place (other than cer­tain parts of Africa right now) that need some kind of Devine Inter­ven­tion, this is it. Come on Santa! For­get the rega­los. Paz, baby. Bring on the Peace. If there is a Santa, bring on the Peace.

Two way island

FBA#20-El Paso/Juarez-Dec. 2008 First block of Amer­ica (FBA). El Paso Street. La Fron­tera. I’d call it Texas but it ain’t. Every­one knows it if they’re from here. Tex­ans hold their arms out, full length. Amer­i­cans think it’s part of Mexico…or hell. New Mexicans…furgidaboutit! It’s all they have to really feel supe­rior to. El Paso, the nation-state of […]

Tender mercy

LBI #7 Pano.series-Carlsbad, New Mexico/December2008 Been work­ing on the Land Before the Inter­state (LBI) series for a long time. Every chance I get to go there I grab. Time machine. No Inter­state. No giant con­crete sup­pos­i­tory run­ning right through your heart. The kinds of places Duvall would crash down in in Ten­der Mercies.

Dogs shake the shoe

Shakin’ the shoe, Memo­r­ial Park, El Paso-August 2008 Some­times you just need to stop and smell the roses. Well, in the park, there’s lots of things to smell. A dog’s life can be won­der­ful. Humans? Well, some­times, not so much. One thing for sure: grab­bing mil­lisec­onds of time out of the megasec­onds of life is still […]