CITY OF DUST

The lost and wondrous wreckage of America. The ceaseless road to nowhere. Yeah, that's my home.

Monday, June 27, 2005

The King

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The icon. The hero. The superstar. The one who is everything we desire to be, yet cannot be. Will never be. In kinder, gentler times, we a...
Friday, June 24, 2005

In the House Where Elvis Lived

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FROM GALWAY TO GRACELAND: Oh, she dressed in the dark and she whispered amen; She was pretty in pink like a young girl again; Twenty years...
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Monday, June 20, 2005

The City of the Dead

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"(St. Louis Cemetery #1) is the mother cemetery...the Vieux Carré of the dead; as confused and closely packed a quarter as the living m...
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Friday, June 17, 2005

The Big Easy

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The first time I visited New Orleans the desk clerk at the hotel I was staying at took my map from me, then drew a thick, dark circle arou...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Hotel No-Tell

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Sometimes things just don't work out. The interstate is built 20 miles to the east. There's no money coming in. You can't cove...
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Friday, June 10, 2005

Neon Night

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I don't know what it is about old neon signs that I find so romantic. Of course, neon is best late at night, in a light rain, the brig...
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Monday, June 06, 2005

Waiting and Watching

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Somewhere along a barren stretch of US Highway, between Tallahassee and the Panhandle Coast, a phalanx of battered trucks waits. Wounded s...
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Thursday, June 02, 2005

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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I first went downtown sometime early in junior high school. For years I'd peered out the car window as my mom drove down Hennepin Aven...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay

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(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay was written by Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. Otis wrote the first verse on a houseboat in...
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Sunday, May 29, 2005

Goodbye C.S.R.A.

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This is a conclusion. It's also a test. Today's post is the VERY LAST from the Central Savannah River Area, USA. It also marks the...
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Monday, May 23, 2005

Hollywood, South Carolina

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And with a new day comes...a change in film stock! The photos for this post were shot this winter with Kodak TX 400 film that expired in 1...
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Monday, May 09, 2005

Adultery, Graverobbing, and Apple Pie

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Once again, City of Dust is going on a brief hiatus. I'll be out in the Northwest for the next 11 days, so things will be a little quiet...
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Sunday, May 01, 2005

Swamp Thing

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I'm very pleased to report that City of Dust has a feature in the May issue of Photoblogs Magazine , which was just released on-line yes...
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