{"id":31456,"date":"2022-02-03T06:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=31456"},"modified":"2022-02-03T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:24:39","slug":"taking-the-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=31456","title":{"rendered":"Taking the freeway…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Taking the freeway when you’re on your way to get a 45 cent taquito* is like taking a jet to visit your cat, the texture’s wrong” – Eve Babitz, best writer on L.A., ever**.<\/p>\n

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I’m scanning slides; not quite there yet [need a proper cleaning brush to prep] but getting close; above Jungo playa, late eighties, springtime…whereas here springtime is, as previously noted,<\/p>\n

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drastically premature…not stopping scanning though; Red Tank, Oregon,<\/a> on the road to No Crossing Crossing, Oregon; the foreground, below, IS the road to No Crossing Crossing.<\/p>\n

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Red chimney, Benicia, some years later on a Sunday<\/p>\n

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Old State Police Station<\/a> east of Fields, Oregon ca. 1975…<\/p>\n

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On the home front we replaced the dryer<\/a> for $16.95 and seem to have gotten the ’45 functional<\/p>\n

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[with the help of the aforementioned low-profile floor jack] with about a 1970s taquito’s worth<\/p>\n

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of Liquid Wrench so that’s all good; meanwhile, April flowers [sans showers] as February begins.<\/p>\n

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Yee-hah; it’s become so noticeable even the Nightly Network Newses have started mentioning<\/p>\n

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climate change…the wettest month is not even a wettish month and no precip in sight.<\/p>\n

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*This was awhile ago<\/a>, back around the time Janis died, Eve was in her prime and taquitos were more affordable.<\/p>\n

**From my privileged white L.A. perspective, anyway.<\/p>\n

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