1. Everything looks like an Eggleston photograph.
2. Wireless in my house is not something that I ever expected.
3. Wireless allows for blog entries written at 5am from my bed.
4. I really like Tacos, soft ones with no lettuce and the plastic bucket they give you for your soft drink can hold pop by the dozens of ounces.
5. Those 32oz cups hold a lot of ice, and just a little bit of pepsi and that is how I used them.
6. Lincoln, as Kevin often tells me, is a “dump”. But a real nice one. (see #1 as to why)
7. I was told that “colored people” like big old cars like the 1970s cadillac that my brother has for sale.
8. Lucky Charms added ANOTHER new marshmallow.
9. All I really want to do is photograph my family.
10. The Leica M5 is the best built, awesomest camera I have ever shot with.
“That’s the brother in law who had kids with both my sisters”
My favorite thing I have heard since getting back to Nebraska.
In no less than 5 days I will be on a plane to start the most stressful and yet fun time of the year for me- my school’s annual 9th grade school trip to Nebraska. This year we will be bringing 280 fourteen and fifteen year olds to the Beef State for 10 days. Arriving a week early with hopes of getting the final parts of the trip prep tied down, I will also be hitting all the thrift stores, stock up on Nice Clothes for Teaching at the banana-reepa (as past japanese students called it) and taking some photographs. I want to shoot as much as possible but I still have not gone through the negatives from last year’s trips in June and December yet. That is something that needs to get done.
Starting to pack tonight, and I’ll be gosh darned if I have not spent part of the evening debating on taking a Pentax 67 with me. Once the kids arrive the time to be messing with such a bulky camera vanishes, but the draw of those big sexy negatives with all their detail is something I can’t get out of my head yet. Is it worth the weight? Will I bring it or not?
Oh to have such troubles.
“The average number of slogans in Nebraska has been more than three per decade — more than 10 slogans since 1972’s “Nebraska … the Good Life.” Three since that time have lasted only a year, and the 1980s were a particularly neurotic decade.”
Nebraska slogans
Since 1972, Nebraska has had a dozen slogans designed to entice tourists.
2004-2006: Possibilities … Endless
2002-2003: America’s Frontier
1998-2001: Genuine Nebraska
1992-1997: Send a Postcard from Nebraska
1988-1991: Come See What We’re Up to Now
1987: Celebrate Nebraska
1986: My Choice, Nebraska
1982-1985: Nebraska … Discover the Difference
1980-1981: Nebraska … Delightfully Different
1979: Vacation Nebraska
1977-1978: Nebraska … the Good Life
1976: Rediscover Nebraska during the Bicentennial
1972-1975: Nebraska … the Good Life
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I did not know there were so many… I just went with the one that I remembered the most when naming my Nebraska Portfolio and Exhibition. Which looks here to have been the best choice, provided you knew of a midwestern state’s tourism slogan from the 1970s.
