February 2011
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Consumer Serendipity
Borders is shuttering one of the locations nearby. I’ve spent a fair number of lunch hours browsing bookstores, coffee in hand, so I thought it fit to note the one truly and remarkable visit I made to Borders. And the very Borders now emblazoned under a giant “Going Out of Business Sale” sign, at that.
This story begins in 1999. I was way into Alt-Country music. To this day, the...
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Buy One, Get One
Buy One, Get One (by Matthew Dennis)
This is the most important picture I’ve taken in recent history. Not because it’s a particularly good picture, or one that makes a poignant observation about existential consumerism. It’s an important picture because I took it.
First, this is one of the 2 GB of photos I took the first weekend with my new camera. I’ve tossed...
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