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 In
the "I'm too sexy for this shirt" category, I made an appearance on the
other side of the camera as a model in a piece done by Dave
Grendel for Wicked Karnival Magazine. It's an illustration from the
story "A Portrait of Jennie" by Gram Masterton. Someone called me "Sean
Bean meets Bono" -- how cool am I?
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 I
have a photo of the Dresden Dolls in an issue of Morbid Outlook
magazine. I also see that I now have an IMDB page, thanks to being
listed on the credits of the Dolls' DVD: "Live at the Paradise". Swank!
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  In
early December of 2006 I photographed some deer in the Woodlands
Cemetery and sent the photos to some friends. The next day I got a call
from the UC Review asking if they could run them with some text. Some
things just fall into your lap.
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 In
December of 2006, I helped out City
Kitties the West Philadelphia stray cat rescue group by
photographing some of their success stories for a series of greeting
cards.
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 I
photographed Senator Arlen Specter while he was being interviewed by
Margot Adler for an episode of Justice Talking on Presidential Signing
statements.
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 I
was the featured speaker at the Videomaker Summit on October 16, 2006. I
gave five lectures in two days.
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 Greg
Downs however did not forget my photo credit for the portrait I did of
him for the jacket of his Flannery O'Conner award winning collection of
short stories, Spit Baths. He even thanked me in the Acknowledgements.
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 My
portrait of Joe Turow is on the back of his book
Niche Envy. They forgot my photo credit though.
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 My
show Lies
opened at the SOL gallery September 1, 2006. It was a big success.
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 I
had an image in the Peer Portraits show at Afif which opened on May 12.
They also picked my image to go in the Gallery Guide
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 A
collection of my photographs of politicians went up on permanent display
at the Annenberg Public Policy Center in the National Press Building in
Washington D.C..
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 I
got an opportunity to do some great studio portraits of my favorite
band, the Reputation when
they came through Philadelphia.
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- My show
Doll Parts
traveled to Webster hall in New York and opened on April 22nd.
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 I
did the cover of
Contamination 2, the David Bowie tribute compilation. It features
Nicki Jaine, Voltaire, and the Dresden Dolls, among others.
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 I
photographed Cyndie Mist for the cover photo for Gary Griffin's novel
Sexy Girls about a murder in a modeling agency.
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I have an article in the February 2006 issue of Videomaker on MPEG
compression.
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 The fall 2005 issue of Photographers Forum had a cover story about me
with a big interview and a bunch of nice pix.
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 I
have an article in the July 12, 2005 issue of the Beruit Daily Star on the
exploration of Kufu's pyramid.
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 Mayfair
moon used one of my shots of Feisty on their web page, it looks great.
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 I
have an article in the May issue of Videomaker Magazine on computer hard
disk tweaks.
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 I
have a whole bunch of photos of Brainclaw in the May issue of Regen
magazine.
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 I
have a photo of the Dresden Dolls in the May 19th issue of the Washington
Post Express.
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 I
have a photo of Dr. Zahi Hawass in the Scholastic Book Ancient World: A
Chapter Book by Katherine Gleason.
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 On
the train to Washington I found myself sitting next to United States
Senator Rick Santorum. I took a nice
picture of him. When I'm in D.C. I'm certain that everybody who walks
past is a Senator or Congressperson I'm just not recognizing.
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 I've
been incredibly lucky that not only have I had the opportunity to meet
most of my favorite bands, but the vast majority of musicians whose work I
really admire have been to my house. It was a very lucky day in
2000 when Brainclaw's manager
called me up to ask about doing photos for them. I've made a pair of
irreplaceable friends who took time out from their busy schedule in
December 2004 to help me decorate my Xmas tree. I can't complain about
this life. We also watched A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Year Without
a Santa Clause as well as an episode of Land of the Lost.
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 I
have photos of QNTAL in the
December
2004 Orkus Magazine (link is to a scan of the page) in Germany. Some
pix
here from when I saw them. Christy's a big fan. They have a medieval
Unto Ashes style. Their bass drum got held up and disassembled in customs
from Germany because someone thought it must contain something nefarious.
The show almost didn't happen. I'm glad it did.
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 I have an article in the September issue
of Videomaker magazine on video and CD-ROMs.
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 Pat
Buchannan was in town last night, I took some nifty photos and my boss
scored me a just-as-nifty autograph.
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- There's an interview with me in the
October issue of Art Matters Magazine.
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 Justice
Talking put out an ad that used three of my photos in September of 2004.
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 In
September, 2004, the City paper printed a really nice article about my
show, "Everything's Up In The Air" which was up at the Afif Gallery.
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 On
September 9th, my dad won the top investigator's award from the New Jersey
office of the Public Defender. I'm proud of him! Though, since he started
working there, I can't seem to get on a jury if I try.
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 I
found a photo that I'd done of Riot Grrl sensations The Side Effects while
flipping through a copy of the UC Review in September, 2004. For some
reason, they forgot to print my photo credit. Story of my life these days
it seems.
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 The
2004 Stafford Film Festival is using one of my images of Michael Moore for
their showing of Farenheight 9/11.
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 I
have an article in the summer 2004 issue of Smart TV & Sound magazine on
smart AV clients.
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 I
have an article in the August 2004 issue of Videomaker Magazine on turnkey
video editing systems.
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 I
had photos of Ralph Nader and Howard Dean on the National Public Radio web
page in July of 2004. I also managed to get my mug
on Fox News while photographing it.
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 I
had three photos in the 2003-2004 issue of the comPENNdium, although it
came out a while ago, I just found out about it today. They picked nice
shots and they printed them well.
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 Gothic
Beauty magazine gave Feistydiva and I five pages in issue 13. I was happy,
but kind of ... sad, that they chose to call my driveway an "industrial
wasteland" -- I spend so much time cleaning it....
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 Gothic
Beauty magazine is using a photo I took of Feistydiva as their "subscribe"
icon.
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 New
article on Nicki Jaine used two of my photos. The one at the top is more
recent of Nicki with my Victrola, the other one is from about 2002 of
Nicki in my studio.
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 Christy
and I went to Noctourne and I noticed they were using some of the photos
I'd done of Alma for them a few months back on the ad cards. That was
pretty cool, they're nicely done, I stuffed a bunch in my pocket.
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  I
saw there's an ad for Carfax Abbey's new album Second Skin on the back of
this month's Origvation magazine, they had some of my photos on it. The
album is great. Inside the magazine there was a photo I'd taken of Amanda
from the Dresden Dolls accompanying an article on them by Robin Parry.
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 I
noticed that one of my photos is the background in the Dresden Dolls' Live
Journal community. I also just read they're on the Lollapolloza bill
summer 2004. Excellent news. Now go buy their record.
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 I
photographed Dennis Kucinich on Friday April 23rd. I was really impressed
by how well he spoke and how enthusiastic his supporters were.
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 Carfax
Abbey used four of my photos on the inner sleeve of their fabulous album
"Second Skin" which came out in April of 2004. We shot the
photos over the summer (2003) at Washington's Crossing Pennsylvania. My favorite
picture from that shoot was
this
one which makes them look a little like a boy band. Maybe that's why they
didn't use it.
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 Janet
Bressler used one of my photos for the cover of her CD, Evening Shades
Prevail. She used to be in the band Bilnkey Bicycle Works. A.
D. Amarosi of the City Paper said "She'll scare the bejesus outa you..."
but in reality, she's very nice and not scary at all.
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 I
have an article and photos in the July issue of Near Eastern Archaeology
on the digital pursuit of the Sumerian language.
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 I
have a photo of DM16 and Spinewrench on the inner sleeve of the
funtabulous new Brainclaw disc, Insekt Angel.
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 I
have a photo on the inside sleeve of the new Bow Ever Down CD, All the
Pieces.
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 I
have a five page fashion spread in issue 12 of
Gothic Beauty magazine. I know
you're all going to run out and buy it.
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 I
did the dust jacket photo of Paul Waldman for his book
Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You.
Paul used to work here at Annenberg. His sister is the crime novelist
Ayelet Waldman. Runs in the family it seems. Like the last photo of Paul I
had printed, Sourcebooks neglected to credit me for the photo. An
oversight they assure me will be fixed in the reprints. (He doesn't
normally look that stern.)
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 I
have both the front and back cover of the February 2004 issue of
Passional. Antipathy was the model.
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 Flipping
through the Philadelphia Weekly in the second week of February 2004 I was
surprised and happy to find a photograph that I'd taken of The
Dresden Dolls in September of
last year on the front steps of my house. I was somewhat not pleased to
discover that they'd credited it to someone else!
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 I
did the photos for the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival's production of
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. It was a fun shoot
and the posters look nice.
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  I
never get tired of opening up a magazine and seeing one of my photographs.
This shot of Antipathy on a washing machine I found in a February issue of
the City Paper. The next week it appeared again, but in color this time.
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 On
January 16, 2004, after nineteen years of love and evil,
Thunderbelly left this earth for
the great beyond. I will miss him tragically. He'd been suffering from
acute renal failure for a year but was spry until the end when his heart
simply stopped beating. I was holding him when he died.
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 On
December 11, 2003 I had an article in the Beruit Daily Star on Digital
Technologies and unraveling the Akkadian language.
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 I
have a photo on the cover of the January 2004 issue of Passional
Magazine.
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 I
got another haircut. Check out this total mug shot.
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I'm not homeless anymore, in case you were wondering. What used to be a
vacant house is now a vacant lot. Isn't that charming? In terms of urban
architecture they call this a "broken tooth" where a house is missing. I
kind of miss that old place, but I'm glad it's not falling down on me
anymore.
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 Nicki
Jaine and I, assisted by the capable Helena, played our very special
rendition of Carfax Abbey's Spitshine for John Ruszin's 35th
birthday party in December of 2003. A splendid time was had by all. Note
Carfax keeling over with laughter on the right. Photo by Gail Cramer.
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 In
November of 2003, I got a call from New York area photographer Colin Voze
who said "You really oughtta check out the new
Empire Hideous CD." I'd heard
rumors which turned out to be true; they used one of the portraits I did
last year of Myke Hideous for the cover.
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 In
November 2003, I had a photo of FCC Chairman Michael Powell in
Cityfold
magazine.
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 In
October of 2003 I photographed Brian and Amanda, aka The Dresden Dolls
while they were on their way through philly on tour with The Legendary
Pink Dots. The Dolls were fantastic.
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 Am
I still homeless? I'm not sure. Monday there were a bunch of firemen in
front of my house watching the place next door sway in the breeze. Today,
all the (de)construction equipment had been moved away, nobody was around.
But the place next door was still mostly standing, and nobody from the
fire department, police department or L&I has called me, though they all
have my number. I noticed they boarded up a bunch of my windows. How long
is it going to be before my co-workers notice that I'm wearing the same
shirt every other day?
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 I
have a photo of Kathleen Hall Jamieson in the September 22, 2003 issue of
Editor and Publisher magazine.
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 I'm
homeless! (technically anyway). At about 8:30 PM on the night of September
22, 2003, a fierce banging on my front door turned out to be about a dozen
firemen telling me to "collect your cats, get out of the house." It seems
the burnt out shell next door to me which I have been complaining about to
my city councilwoman for five years now, had begun to collapse in earnest
after the heavy winds of hurricane Isabella. They roped off my house &
told me to get lost. No word on when or if I can come back. Luckily I'm so
lazy that I still hadn't unpacked from my
Boston trip, so I have a suitcase with two pairs of pants and two
shirts and a good book.
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 I
have eight photos from a fashion show in the September issue of
Philadelphia Home and Garden. ("I spend my life on the catwalk.")
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 On
Wednesday, August 27, 2003, I photographed New York industrial trip hop
sensation Bow Ever Down. They were very nice.
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 I
shot the album cover photo for Daughter Darling's "Sweet Shadows" a few
months ago. It's out now and looks beautiful. cdbaby.com describes it as
"up to par with Portished's Dummy". It is a remarkable album and a very
good introduction to trip-hop I think.
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 I
spoke at the Digital Video Expo at Javitz in July of 2003. My presentation
was on storytelling and the future of Digital Video. The panel was put
together by Susan Jacobson who teaches at the University of the Arts. It
was a grand old time. New York can be a marvelous place.
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 Holy
rock star Batman! I
had dinner with Brainclaw on July 5, 2003. Their cook prepared a
vegetarian feast!
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 We
played CBGB's in March. It was terrific fun. The men's room is the
filthiest place on the planet Earth. Nicki's on the cover of the June
issue of Chorus and Verse. I'll be doing maybe two more shows with her in
June and then she's off to the studio to get famous. I'll be left
sniffling that I Knew Her When. More
photos from the CB's show by Colin Voze.
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 I
did an album cover for NOIR which came out in June of 2003. They liked my
photos so much they used four of them.
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- On May 27, 2003 A literary agent & editor
accepted the proposal for my 6th book. It being kind of outside my field
of expertise I felt I could use a little help getting this baby to the
proper person. It's all looking good right now.
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 Amy
and I spent Memorial Day weekend 2003 at the beach. Among other things, we watched
dolphins and saw three types of
jellyfish.
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 "Enemies
can become Friends," said Archbishop Desmond Tutu, delivering one of the
most impassioned speeches for peace I've ever heard.
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 It's
just another day when I spot CNN's Wolf Blitzer in the hallway with
Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
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 President
Clinton had a party at Shampoo in May of 2003. Weird. I was there with
Patrick and Rachel and Andrew and Valerini.
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 National
Geographic photographer Steve Mccurry
was at Annenberg on April 10th, 2003 to talk about his travels, his
photography, getting shot at, and the job of a journalist in the 21st
century. Afterwards I checked out his show hanging at the Arthur Ross
gallery. I don't know why I'm compelled to get my picture taken with
people I don't really know. He did autograph my Nikon F2 which is probably
just as silly. (photo by
the Brazilian supermodel)
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 Kateri
 had once
confided in me that she thought indy folk-rocker Dan Bern was better than
David Bowie. So when Dave Gerbstadt called to say that strange
circumstances had Dan Bern playing a house party for his friend Sarah the
night before his TLA gig on March 28th, 2003, who do you think I called?
We had an awesome time. They played for five hours. Including my favorite
songs "Missing Link", a 15 minute long rendition of "Tiger Woods" as well
as a bunch of covers. If you could shout it out, they could play it.
More photos.
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 There's
a new girl in my life! Tatiana moved in on March 10, 2003. She's Milla's
sister, but they've been separated for 8 months. When I re-introduced
them, I was fascinated to discover that they did not recognize one
another. In fact,
Milla, my darling child, who used to love her dear sibling, was
not pleased. In the slightest. Tatiana is
arboreal. She spends much of her time perched on my shoulder like a parrot
on a pirate. Milla is a princess. She spends much of her time waving from
balconies and being deservedly adored..
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  My
band, Torn Paper Dolls played
at the Tritone on Saturday March 8th, 2003. We're playing CBGB's on the
22nd. Also, see how I amuse myself at rehearsal in between Sky and Nicki
Jaine telling dirty jokes.
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 On
Valentines day 2003, David Eisenhower brought in five term Republican
Congressman Tom Davis (VA) to talk about his stunning success in
orchestrating the 2002 Republican mid-term congressional elections. He
gave a really fascinating lecture. Is it just me or does he look a lot
like William Shatner?
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 Saw
a copy of Ob-Zine at Shampoo and thought "Gee, how come I'm not shooting
for this magazine?" Flipping through it I found a full page photo of mine
that I'd done of Darenzia in the summer of 2002..
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 Ran
into Salman Rushdie again at a party on February 11, 2003. I'd just seen
his play, "Midnight's Children" a few weeks before. I told him it reminded
me of Tristram Shandy. He seemed very pleased by that.
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 So,
like on any other ordinary day, someone sticks their head into my office
on Feb 6, 2003 and says "Hey, [former Clinton press secretary] Dee Dee
Meyers is standing out in the hall." And sure enough, she is.
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 On
January 29th, 2002, I photographed Ronan Harris from VNV Nation. It was
swank.
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 On
January 8, 2003 I had a photograph of Paul Waldman in the New York
Times, which was exciting, however they accidentally credited it to
"Oxford University Press" -- despite the fact that I had put my
photo-credit info in bold 18 point courier on a 1 inch border added to the
bottom of the photo. Oh well. On the 11th they printed a correction with
the proper credit info, which isn't as cool as having a photo with my name
under it in the Times....
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 I
have a photo of Dr. Steve Tinney of the Penn Sumerian Dictionary Project
in the January 2003 issue of the Gazette. I also have a few photos of
Sumerian tablets in there too.
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 I
have a photo of Lollipop Lust Kill on page 80 of issue 18 of Outburn
magazine.
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 Adventures
in Lon-Giland.... And then it was new years. See the last few days of
2002 and the first few hours of 2003 through the lens of some guy you
hardly know; filled with models, fashion desingers, rock stars, and other
assorted weirdos. Starring Nicki Jaine, Darenzia, Jenner from AMF Korsets,
Julia from The Brides, Jaqueline and Gadget of Otto's Daughter, and a cast
of thousands....
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 Hey,
it's xmas. Or at least it was, December 25, 2002. The Chaskes' and the
Cassidy's and a little sprinkle of Rawk Star.
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 Everybody sees rock stars on stage and, well, we just assume they're
always like that. I photographed Otto's Daughter in mid December.
Until you've seen a rock star cooking French Toast in your kitchen at noon
on a Sunday, you really haven't lived.
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 November
2002, I finally cut my hair.
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 I
have three pages of photos of Darenzia in the October issue of the fashion
rag Gothic Beauty. 1 2
3.
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 Ed
Rendell and Kathryn Baker Knoll after winning the PA Governor's race,
November 5, 2002. In the ballroom of the Warwick hotel.
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 My
Congressman, Chaka Fattah and his wife, news anchor Renee Chenault Fattah.
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 Politicians
everywhere. Mike Morrell is the Green Party candidate for Governor in
Pennsylvania. He was a really nice guy - to invoke a cliché, quite "down
to earth". He told me he'd been arrested 30 times. He also told me a
really interesting story about the death penalty which I won't relate
here.
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 On
October 10, 2002 I met Salman Rushdie, of whom I have been a big fan since
his science fiction novel, Grimus.
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This part of my web page was getting too long, so I truncated it here. The old
stuff is still around. It's still cool. You can check it out
here.
You'll all be
excited to know that I am now Lord of my Own VAX! SATURN, a DEC VAX
4000/300 now resides in my living room humming and whirring and running VMS
5.5. Ain't it beautiful? A gift from Rowan
University where I used to work in the Office of Academic Computing
(it's much better than getting a gold watch when you retire!) SATURN
was Rowan's dedicated Internet Sandbox from 1991's until about 1995 when
it was moved to Administrative Computing where it served as a backup for
their Big Ugly Vaxcluster. Galactric Trader anyone? Hunt the Wumpus
perhaps? Anyway, plans are to eventually make it my Internet gateway,
either running VMS or possibly VAX linnux, depending on how well that works
when it does work.
My
show 
I
did the cover for 
