2021 marked the first time I'd seen Nicki Jaine again in a long time, maybe ten years? One of the gifts of the pandemic were Zoom hangouts and back yard visits.

I hope that through all of this you've found good things too. This is the most beautiful version of this song it's been my fortune to experience.

May your 2021 be filled with joy.

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I almost didnt repost this link to my 9/11 memories. I just feel fatigued. I didn't turn on the radio today or look at the news. But I've been linking to them for two decades now. So.

Hope you're all feeling well.

https://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/336247.html

trillian_stars used her lockdown to do a couple of things, one of which was to make a movie about novelist Mary Shelley. It's opening on the 30th of August on Shelley's birthday. You can watch it in the comfort of your home, or, if you're in Philly, you might be able to watch it at a special party in our back yard.

Trailer and link to tickets below.


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I've been collecting masks for more than a year now, using them in portraits of doctors and nurses and essential workers. But the masks themselves, because of their disposable nature and incredible variety, have a beauty all of their own like Hilla and Bernd Becher's photographs of water towers. So much the same, and yet so different.


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"When you give someone Narcan, you’re touching them, and in the early days of COVID when I saw someone going out I didn’t think about putting on gloves, my first response was to get to that person and give them Narcan and check on them and then after it was over it would dawn on me, Did I take the necessary precautions? Did I touch my face? Did I ( Read more... )

So we made a movie! And it's 90 minutes long and playing during Philadelphia's Theater Week. trillian_stars plays Nora's friend Christine Linde.

Here's the trailer for the thing.

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trillian_stars and I are making a movie. We wrote an original adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House set to take place in 2020 during lockdown.

The Kickstarter for it is here. We'd love it if you signed up to get a copy of the movie for $15 and we'd also love it if you'd share with your friends ( Read more... )

For, geez, twenty one years now I've been taking a 2 second exposure that begins in the last second of one year and ends in the first second of the new year. 2020 was quite a year.

Let's hope 2021 brings joy.



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I've been posting it for like 17 years or so now. But if you're going to listen to Auld Lang Syne tonight, listen to this one. It's beautiful, and you will be haunted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvGkT_Gi7D8