Random Photographs, Thoughts, & Tales | May - June 2025
You can’t fully comprehend our present reality until you’ve wandered the aisles of a Dollar General built into a former Golden Corral.
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Downtown Cincinnati - May 9, 2025:
Made while wandering with Phil.
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Main St., Cincinnati.
I don’t know this for a fact (and this “fact” will probably mean nothing to anyone), but: I’m pretty sure those speakers are the same models installed at Kings Island’s original “Waterworks” water park in 1988/89—which would’ve been around the same time Sawyer Point was built.
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Procter & Gamble Headquarters.
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Taqueria San Miguel in Covington, KY. Thank you for showing me the light, Jack.
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Taste of Cincinnati Weekend:
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There is perhaps no better montage song than “Closer to Free” by BoDeans.
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Golden General / Dollar Corral, Cincinnati (Pleasant Ridge).
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My favorite television psychic-inspired 90’s alternative rock band is “Letters to Ms. Cleo.”
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Cincinnati - June 11, 2025
Sawyer Point.
Sawyer Point.
Sawyer Point.
One Lytle Place.
Lytle Park.
Western-Southern Financial Headquarters.
Western-Southern Financial Headquarters.
That arena in the background tried to get an NHL team once.
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Shot with the phone while working on this post.
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Must always stop to document a “Wiggle Worm.”
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Downtown Cincinnati - June 15, 2025:
The hotel from the “sculpture park” story.
Closed in 2022.
The Terrace Plaza.
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I have a really fun story that I’ve been working on lately and it’s almost ready, but in one section of the draft that I decided to cut: I instructed readers to “read it in Keith Morrison’s ‘Dateline’ voice.” I realized that this was a very specific reference and the joke wasn't going to translate to most people, but I mention this to say: if you run into me on the street, I’d be more than happy to do my Keith Morrison impression for you.
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Bowen Alley:
Also known as: the grocery store shortcut.
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”Allegro” on 7th St, downtown Cincinnati.
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7th and Broadway Parking Garage, Cincinnati:
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West End, Cincinnati.
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Tree in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati that has grown around some metal poles.
View of the western side of Downtown Cincinnati with the convention center under renovation.
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Updated “the list” and have some fun stories on the way, but In the meantime: we’ll end on some genuinely heartfelt and heartwarming goodbyes I recently overheard between a bartender and some guy who was talking her ear off about all of his schemes in life.
“I hope you get where you’re going and then get exactly where you’re supposed to be.”
- Bartender
“Thank you, [redacted]. Get to Florida and enjoy the life you deserve!”
- Some guy
…while transcribing those quotes from my note just now, I heard the same bar get lit up with bullets. Everyone is apparently ok, however.
What a stupid world.
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