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  • I guess that’s why it’s called ‘average’

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    You know, when someone roams the world photographing the first hundred people they find in each city (who agree to be photographed), & then average those hundred faces & call each composite by the city name — it’s surprising how similar we all look. Or, well, maybe it isn’t. But somewhere in there is a…

  • Poe’s Deadly Daughters

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    Hey, hi, how you been? What’ve you been up to? Me? No, just busy, is all. But I’m hoping to get away soon-ish. Do you tweet? As an early birthday present, I scored an invitation to be part of the fabulous Poe’s Deadly Daughters blog this weekend (this weekend in Canada, which is a few…

  • Mind plays tricks

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    Coming down the escalator at Greenwood Plaza, the long one, at the end of a long day — concentration dead, eyes heavy, brain fritzing randomly — I saw from the corner of my eye a woman two metres down the escalator from me, turned to her left and gazing intently into the eyes of her…

  • The stranger

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    “I have a story to tell, but if I tell it, they’ll kill me.” “Who will?” I ask, compulsively. Because even sober I’d want to know the answer to that. “When I was 18, I was beaten by six screws. I was naked. Neddy Smith asked me if I’d screamed.” My thoughts settle into the…

  • “It looks like Mars out there.”

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    Six o’clock in the morning, that’s what my roomie said. Didn’t understand what he meant. He was right.

  • Bad pennies

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    Much excitement at chateau deborahb this morning, but not the good kind. Turns out we had a break-in last night while we were sleeping. And before anyone feels TOO sorry for me, I have to confess that all I lost was a window (400 bucks, thank you very much) & whatever peace of mind I…

  • Lost & found

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    A moment of early-morning panic today when I couldn’t find my marvellous new phone (with the camera) — currently the only item I really love. But then I remembered: it was plugged into my computer. (What’s next, wireless technology?!) So I’ll still be able to take it on my daily adventures to places like the…

  • Dawn of a new era

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    I’ve never been considered ‘an early adopter’, & so it’s only THIS year that I’ve gotten me one of them new-fangled phones with the cameras in them. (What’s next? Microwaves with clocks?!) It’s not a great camera, particularly in low light, but one thing it does have: portability. In today’s unexpected adventures, a photo of…