Saturday, November 14th

years ago....


after my father died i happened to find a cassette tape of him
and my mother talking - just random room stuff that i recorded
with the 1970's clunky portable machine we had - the kind where you
press two buttons to record.


i was excited so i played it for my mother, but she got so freaked out
hearing his voice that she made me erase the tape.


i did what she asked, i erased it. and i have regretted it since:
not being able to hear what my father's voice sounded like.

11.14.09 @ 08:45PDT

Sunday, April 19th

america


Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America

Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America

Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said Be careful his bowtie is really a camera

Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field

Kathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America

04.19.09 @ 13:58PDT

Wednesday, April 8th

from The Stranger


People Who Claim to Be Afraid of Clowns

These people (and they are numerous) are attempting to cultivate a cute quirk,
but they are really just aping a cute quirk cultivated by thousands of cute-quirk-cultivators
before them in a giant, gross, boring feedback loop. Yes, clowns can be mildly creepy.
But come on. Among the many things that are scarier than clowns: fire, earthquakes,
a guy with a knife, riding the bus, colon cancer, falling down the stairs (it could happen
at any time!), rapists, people who just kind of look a little rapey and are standing
too close to you in line at 7-Eleven, Marlo from The Wire, influenza, and scissors.

04.08.09 @ 10:52PDT

Thursday, February 26th

W.C. Fields
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“You can fool some of the people some of the time – and that’s enough to make a decent living.”


W.C. Fields

02.26.09 @ 15:04PDT

Sunday, February 22nd

gone too soon



melissa duke-mooney. what a lovely person. gone too soon.

02.22.09 @ 21:15PDT

Wednesday, February 18th

great images for sale!

i have FINALLY added a new set of images to my imagekind online gallery.
what this is is a site where you can order prints online - framed or unframed -
for a fraction of what they would cost if they were my limited editions.

so get cracking y'all!

http://herzco.imagekind.com/
(click gallery icon at right)

02.18.09 @ 11:09PDT

Monday, February 2nd

Wheels....


Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels
of the same machinery of sensibility.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and physician (1809-1894)

02.02.09 @ 00:57PDT

Thursday, January 15th

The Twain...


All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.


Mark Twain (1835-1910)

01.15.09 @ 16:28PDT

Monday, January 5th

Nathaniel Hawthorne


I want my place! - my own place! -
my true place in the world! - my proper sphere! -
my thing to do, which nature intended me to perform
when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have
vainly sought, all my lifetime!"


Nathaniel Hawthorne

01.05.09 @ 20:28PDT

Sunday, December 28th

Dawkins


If I don't understand Quantum Mechanics or Relativity
the last thing I should reasonably expect to be able to do
is get away with criticizing it as though my opinion had
as much weight as that of a person who spent a professional
lifetime studying it. Yet, alone amongst the sciences,
the theory of evolution is considered fair game for criticism
by people of any level of ignorance.

In the middle ages at least people had an excuse for such ignorance.
In this age of high technology and scientific breakthoughs, the ingrained,
bigoted and ill-thought out repostes to evolution can only be described
as willful ignorance. And that's the worst kind.

12.28.08 @ 11:52PDT

Thursday, December 18th

Sylvia Sidney

12.18.08 @ 19:51PDT

never....


"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."
--Sam Brown

12.18.08 @ 00:03PDT

Thursday, December 11th

thought for the day


"Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God,
that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the
first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice.
There has never been a religion that which fulfills those conditions."

-Robert Blatchford, author (1851-1943)

12.11.08 @ 18:41PDT

Monday, November 24th

brenda....

11.24.08 @ 21:09PDT

Thursday, November 6th

still exhaling....

11.06.08 @ 12:29PDT

Tuesday, September 23rd

lonely man

09.23.08 @ 11:17PDT

Sunday, September 14th

RIP DFW


"Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control
over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough
to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning
from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life,
you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being
an excellent servant but a terrible master."

09.14.08 @ 12:07PDT

Saturday, September 6th

as lonely as dave bowman...

09.06.08 @ 02:50PDT

Thursday, September 4th

the word of the Wiki.

"Hipsters are commonly unliked for their false sense
of individuality and passive-aggressive behavior."

09.04.08 @ 01:47PDT

Friday, August 29th

Carol Kaye is my hero.

08.29.08 @ 01:54PDT

Tuesday, August 12th

Night of the Gun


Personal narrative is not simply opening up a vein
and letting the blood flow toward anyone willing to stare.
The historical self is created to keep dissonance at bay
and render the subject palatable in the present.


-David Carr-

08.12.08 @ 22:49PDT

Thursday, August 7th

It was just a false alarm.

08.07.08 @ 21:08PDT

Wednesday, August 6th

i am excited about this new image....

08.06.08 @ 01:54PDT

Tuesday, July 29th

Glendale, CA 2008

07.29.08 @ 20:56PDT

Monday, July 28th

words fall short

07.28.08 @ 01:29PDT

Sunday, July 27th

Benjamin Barber


"Capitalism has put democracy in trouble.
Because capitalism has tried to persuade us
that being a private consumer is enough.
That a citizen is nothing more than a consumer.
That voting means spending your dollars spreading
around your private prejudices, your private preferences.
Not reaching public judgments.
Not finding common ground.
Not making decisions about the social consequences of
private judgments, but just making the private judgments.
And letting it fall where it will."

07.27.08 @ 10:19PDT