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fieldnotes62
by fieldnotes62
Lost cats, stolen laptops, runaway kids, missing parents, bicycles vandalized and then abandoned. Baby blankets, epileptic dogs, and chimps on the lamb. New Year's from the roof, election results from the television, the sound of rain outside the tent. Hip contemporary novels, religious texts, pulp westerns, and epic poetry. Supplications of the unconsoled. A person opens a book and looks for what? Can you judge a book by its reader? Can you gauge the depths of longing from the Xeroxed sign taped to a light pole? What lies between the effect of loss and the affect of moving on?
Episodes
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Groundhog or Fox
Groundhog or fox. Monday, July 4, 2016. Valley under the highway overpass. Hit by a car. Does death make us malleable or indistinct? Is it the great equalizer? A waiting room in Hell. Where have you been my bonnie young one? The ass end of modern infrastructure in decay. Who would choose to build…
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H.G. Wells Possum
Possum. Monday, July 4th, 2016. Valley in front of the wooded cloverleaf with the drainage stream. Deadly transitions. The wilderness is closed down. Spiteful congratulations. Detective work is logic-based. Honest mood assessment and a frank aesthetic pronouncement. All in a day’s work. I don’t...
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Independence Sparrow
Sparrow. Monday, July 4, 2016. Outside the train station/parking garage at the university. Flew into glass? Everything’s locked up but the machines keep humming. There’s death in falling, life in flight. Imagine being a pretty, little thing. A brief accounting of my ignorance. Conjectures are…
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Hypnotist Blue Jay
Blue Jay. Sunday, June 26, 2016. North Mountain in front of the run down Victorian house with the porch. Hit by a car. Wild manicures. At the count of three you will forget any of this happened. We are robbed daily. Cosmology and the foundations of the scientific process. Who notices us? What…
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Cartographer Squirrel
Squirrel. Sunday, June 26, 2016. Valley by the concrete stairs to the house that doesn’t exist anymore. Hit by a car. Timelines of decay. Lost arts, dead languages and the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Does anyone else but me think about these long vanished landmarks? What animal wouldn’t...
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Japonais Squirrel
Squirrel. Sunday, June 19, 2016. Upper Mountain near the old Telly Savalas house. Hit by a car. Infrastructure priorities and consequences thereof. A neighborhood where people have the money to live in houses that don’t all look the same. Down to the cities in trains. A strangely oppressive...
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Spiral Jetty Squirrel
Squirrel. Sunday, June 19,2016. That private road that runs up between the highway and what used to be a quarry. Hit by a car. Nature, Art, then Commerce- a timeless triptych. Observations and apologies. There are hundreds of different types of animals that you’ve never seen sleeping. Who…
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Archetypal Earthworm
Earthworm. Sunday, May 29, 2016. Laurel near the old train station. Eaten by a robin. A scene a child could have painted. It’s reassuring to have a purpose in this world. Tools for living. Do worms have a social life? What’s it like under there surrounded by all that dirt and dark and damp? Could…
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Little Orange Tabby Cat
Little orange tabby cat. Sunday, May 29, 2016. Day before Memorial Day. Route 46 near the diner where they’re doing construction. Hit by a car. The shape a life takes. Don’t believe the television cop and detective shows featuring troubled geniuses and super-computers- there is no algorithm for...
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Little Squirrel
Little squirrel. Sunday, May 22, 2016. Grove near the round sparrow. Hit by car. The avenue of heroes. Violence is a confusing and ugly addition to any vista. I don’t think I like the sun. Garbage is strewn across the landscape like lines of poetry. People are a disappointment. All hail the…
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Round Sparrow
Sparrow. Sunday, May 22, 2016. Grove in front of the cemetery, across from the pool club. Hit by a car. The nomenclature of affluence. The challenges of accurate dating and classifcation. Nature is fluid, and we are but stubborn phonograph needles and hand-held cameras. There's a lot of noise in...
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Negative Space Squirrel
Squirrel. Sunday, February 28, 2016. Carlyle by the railroad tracks. Hit by a car. Lying on his back. Iconic images from the Golden Age of comic books. Baby Superman leaves his collapsing planet. The distance between the tall grass and the woods, and the paved suburban street, was first mapped by...
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Burden of Skunks
Skunk. Sunday, February 28, 2016. Glenwood near the little Sir Walter Raleigh house. Hit by a car. Middle of the road. Violent senses. You know it when you see it. Why does the uncaged bird sing? I want to be up when everyone else is asleep. Killers and gatherers. Sometimes a heay load is too…
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19th Century Dutch Cat
Cat. Saturday, January 16, 2016. Valley in front of origninal site of 19th century Dutch farmhouse. Hit by a car. A cartographic record of heartbreak. Sponsored content, hip celebrities, and taking over bird sanctuaries. Bitter rambles on a bitter cold day. Our ancestors revered animals to the...
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Sycamore Cat
Cat. Valley in wooded hill behind college. Sunday, January 3rd, 2016. Cause of death unknown. Black and white cat in a gray sad world. it sounds like there are jets flying in my head. Ishi ponders who to turn his jantiorial keys over to as the museum at UC Berkeley is converted into condos. Some...
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This Cat
Have You Seen This Cat? November 15, 2015. Cooper and Valley. A terrible world to love. Please help. Typography and graphic design as formalized anguished echoes of loss.
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Plump Belly Cat
Cat. Friday, January 1, 2016. Valley in front of old Victorian house. Hit by car. A plump little belly and a sad equation. The road to Calgary is paved with gold intentions. A disappointed world. Straight talking PSA's. The seven secrets of successful people. The magical thinking of a doomed year...
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Nostalgic Squirrel
Squirrel. November 15, 2015. Valley in front of opera place. Hit by car. Confusion, murder, and nostalgia for a time when people used to go out dancing for fun. A reading from the John Muir police blotter. The comfort of metaphors. End of season, everything must go. Wishful thinking amid a dry,...
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Shiba Inu
Shiba Inu- Lost. October 18, 2015. Bedford and N.9th. Orange fur. Scuttling leaves, chirping birds, the search for a lost epoch, and the brutal indiference of Moloch the Developer.
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Franchesca Post Me
Franchesca/Chica-Missing Person. Lorimer and Metropolitan. October 18, 2015. Repost Me! Take a picture. An hourglass you can never flip over.
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Bus Stop Squirrel
Squirrel. Sunday, November 1, 2015. Valley in front of the bus stop by the cemetery. Hit by car. Sometimes you just have to let the wind say what it wants to say. Things I learned from New Jersey.
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Hank Williams Skunk
Skunk. Wednesday, October 14, 2015. Valley in front of where the big, fancy white house used to be. Hit by a car. It always sounds like it's raining. Widows, ghosts, and lonesome train whistles. When there are no more answers, the only thing left is questions. Natty Bumpo stuffed and whimsically...
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Calico Cat
Calico Cat. Wednesday, October 14, 2015. Valley across from woods. Hit by car. 7 months to a year old. Exquisite, indiscriminate, singular. Lost in the maelstrom. After the deluge, what? Winter approaches and a sweetheart departs. No literary device is going to soften the punch.
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Starling/Blackbird
Starling or Blackbird. Valley in front of cemetery. Sunday, October 11. 2015. Hit by a car. A violent death. A resting spot in the valley of death. Brutalistic headstones and Gilded Age statuary. The infinite possiblities in a finite world. Raise high your battle flags.
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Stolen Guitars
$ Reward $. Stolen Guitars. September 7, 2015. Train station near cul-de-sac. Reverse engineering heartbreak. Our spirit animals manifest, enthrall, and then disappear into the miasma of the built world. All roads lead to impermanence.
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Badlands Groundhog
Groundhog. September 7, 2015. Upper Mountain between Iris gardens and the Badlands house. Hit by car. Sad greeting cards for bad jobs. Fun times at summer's end. A quarterly meeting of a local chapter of Ethnographers and Antisocial "New Documentarians Collective." Papers and powerpoint...
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Perpendicular Skunk
Skunk. August 30, 2015. Valley across from banquet hall. Hit by car. Born in spring, died in summer. The inability of maps, legends, XY graphs, or basic geometry to hold your hand at 3 o'clock in the morning. The promise of colder days. Frankenstein terrorizing the countryside in his SUV. What…
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Northern Short-Tailed Shrew
Northern short-tailed shrew. August 24, 2015. Norton near pretty yellow house. Hit by a car. It wasn't a mouse-I'm no Charles Darwin. I'm being beat down by the summer and the noise of man. Listening with headphones is suggested to make sense of my drowning whispers.
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Gothic Sparrow
Sparrow. August 10, 2015. Valley near Glenwood. Hit by a car. An American pastoral landscape. Bones strong enough to lift you off the ground. Bible quotes, tote bag rewards, a journey round the sun, a litany of dissappointments and a sad goodbye.
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Little Dead Bird
Little dead bird. Saturday, July 4th, 2015. The road thru the college past the power lines. Hit by a car? A victim of gravity? The ever shifting state of Linnaean taxonomy. A brief description of two competing powers. Fossils, geographic records, and the destructive footprint. Perhaps it all went...
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Goldfinch
Goldfinch. On the road in the nice cemetery. June 21, 2015. Hit by car. Art imitates death. Mysteries real and manufactured. So much depends upon a small goldfinch. An axe is ground and futures are assessed. The world is robbed daily, but the puzzle and triumph of the goldfinch remains constant.
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Missing Petey
Missing- Petey. Aug, 25, 2015. Upper Mountain and Laurel. Missing- August 24. 17 years old, indoor cat. Friendly with strangers. Sick with worry. Does something have value if it doesn't have a focus sentence? If every story has a twist, no story has a surprise. All I want to do is scream, but it...
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Juvenile Robin
Juvenile Robin. Sunday, June, 21, 2015. Valley near Macopin. Hit by a car. It's Fathers Day in the networked universe. Is the only way out, in? Or is it the other way around? Are the dead orphans? What did Herman Melville do for fun on a Sunday?
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Early Summer Robin
Robin. Mt. Hebron near railroad crossing. May 31, 2015. Hit by car. A storm and summer approach. The Flying Dutchman creek and the unspoken realization that the whole hip taxidermy/Morbid Anantomy thing is dumb and sad. A bird is missed.
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Blackbird at Rest
Irridescent Blackbird. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Valley in front of chained off driveway. Hit by car. The ghost of Wallace Stevens wanders a spoiled American landscape.
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Pond Robin
Robin. Tuesday, May 19. 2015. Hit by a car? The private road above the pond near the old quarry. The days are too long and too hot. Does a spiral jetty arc towards the shore or away from it? The failure of modernism versus natural decay. Things we learned from New Jersey.
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Transcendent Sparrow
Sparrow. Norwood Ave in front of house with big white dog. Sunday, May 17, 2015. A little guy hit by car and wet from the rain. Optical illusions. Icons, archetypes, confusions, and profound mysteries.
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Honest Squirrel
Squirrel. Norwood and Alexander. Sunday, May 17, 2015. Hit by a car. Abraham Lincoln swims the Potomac. Maybe what this country needs is more ugly, clinically depressed Presidents- ones that would walk in solitude through the captial's streets at dusk; past poets, nurses, peddlers, and folk…
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3 Bird Eggs
3 bird eggs. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Underneath the stairs of pedestrian overpass on highway. The uncertain remains of life or death. Understanding the natural world in an Age of Digital Reproduction.
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Deep Black Bird
Deep black bird Sunday, April 26, 2015. Laying in the stream by the railroad station. Cause of death unknown. Finding your place in the circle. Life lived in the thickets. Gestures-empty and otherwise.
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Mystery Sparrow
Sparrow- either attacked by a hawk or cat, or hit by a train. April 13, 2015. Train platform near Laurel Pl. The things we leave behind. Hank Williams and the unbearable lightness of daylight. Trigger Warning: There is no mention of Miranda July in this posting.
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Convent Sparrow
Sparrow. April 7, 2015. Valley Rd in front of convent. Hit by car. T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams wrestle to the death under an indifferent downpour.
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Resevoir Raccoon
Raccoon. April 4th, 2015. Hit by car on road behind the resevoir. Twigs, leaves, trash and plosives. Roads without names. The wind in the pines. Confessions of a crime scene witness. The problems of cultural reassignment surgery. The teacup is slowly emptied, yet we grow more and more thirsty.…
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Good Friday Possum
Possum. April 3, 2015. Upper Mountain Ave between train station and Iris garden. Hit by car. The living Bible in an age of post-mechanical reproduction.
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Indefatigable Squirrel
Squirrel. Hit by car. Notch Rd in front of non-descript ranch-style house. March 29, 2015. Major trends in 20th century art. Ce ne est pas un écureuil. Ce est un écureuil.
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Post Industrial Rat
Rat. Hit by car. Highway in front of Ford/Kia dealership. March 29, 2015. Stiff, brittle, dead. The twin lenses of location and context. Humanity a virus that spreads in an ever widening gyre.
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Non Artisinal Squirrel
Squirrel. Hit by car. Upper Mountain Ave in front of ramshackle Victorian. March 22, 2015. A death with no entertainment value. Defiled but not degraded. Like trivial gods we recreate the natural world in our own diminished image.
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Blue Deer
Deer. Valley Rd in front of cemetry. March 25, 2015. Covered with blue vinyl tarp. Cold and raining. All paths lead to a burning Rome. Don't believe the movies, all of the monsters are outside of the graveyard. A geological time scale as slow, gravitational descent into the glittering, white hot...
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Uncertain Mammal
Either a deer or a groundhog or a raccoon or an opossum. Febuary 12, 2015. Valley Rd in front of Greek Orthodox Church. Too far away to see exactly what it is. The bureaucracy of loss. The complex calculation of distance, scale, and animal gut instinct. The persistence of place.
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Honey and Cinnamon Deer
Deer. Feb. 12, 2015. Valley Rd in front of Dutch farmhouse. Hit by car. Honey and cinnamon fur. Every little piece adds up like snowflakes, but nothing melts away. Car tires on brined roads sound like cannonballs rolling home to Sebastopol.
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Lost cats, stolen laptops, runaway kids, missing parents, bicycles vandalized and then abandoned. Baby blankets, epileptic dogs, and chimps on the lamb. New Year's from the roof, election results from the television, the sound of rain outside the tent. Hip contemporary novels, religious texts, pulp westerns, and epic poetry. Supplications of the unconsoled. A person opens a book and looks for what? Can you judge a book by its reader? Can you gauge the depths of longing from the Xeroxed sign taped to a light pole? What lies between the effect of loss and the affect of moving on?
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