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The desert is not kind to equipment, but the 70mm film stock is kind to the red sand, the yellow sand, the orange sky.

A crowd of NYPD stood guard outside the subway entrance, which was odd since they usually stand around inside. After a detour on the Q to Manhattan and the L back to Brooklyn, I saw there had been a shooting on the A during evening rush.

The news: Palestine, Haiti, Nicaragua, Ukraine.

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A long and narrow corridor, like a foyer, only leading to nothing else except more foyer (if a novel were architecture).

The sound of an infant bawling on the subway. But I turn to look at someone making a friction drum out of their Taco Bell cup and straw.

I would be fooled by an unabridged edition of Samuel Clemens left on the curb, with a fishing line attached.

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11:31 pm on a Monday and I’m feeling it — I’m feeling it! the creativity comin’ back.

There would be no statue at all, but a pedestal, holding only another pedestal, and so on (if a novel were a statue).

Need to eat less, need to exercise more, need to smoke less, need to sleep more — but at least I cleaned up a little round here.