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new album of toycam images found here.

the chinese camera used cost me 195p, from the Avenue store at Hidalgo. it was regarded as the equivalent of a 35mm Holga. thing is, the output comes out pretty good for a toy camera. no vignetting at all.

the pictures were taken early december, hence that santa claus sled replica on one of the images.

mood: an immense laziness to blog and work.

was supposed to: leave early to look for polaroid film, but then, edited instead the cookbook my dad has been typing for mom. got to minimize black in use on the printer. and even before i stepped out of the house, i had the quick inspiration to do a mirror portrait -brother just installed a mirror in my room- with the 2-months-dormant-in-the-post-office-f*ck-em Lomo Smena Symbol. poof, the flash wont work. the flash does work though for the other cameras, so that means this specific camera’s hotshoe aint so hot after all.

and this morning: i lost a really cheap bid (stayed at $1 til the last hour) on a russian lightmeter. dang.

in apartment news: doing great. we’re eyeing this new, studio-type apartment a short bus ride away from the office. too bad we havent really been in the apartment, since the caretaker wasnt around when we went there.

bought a copy of Fast Food Fiction, a local collection of short-short stories.

somehow, instead of inspiring me to write that sort of fiction, here’s where it got me to: fast, bad poetry…
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Ted Hughes

He loved her and she loved him
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and Sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains
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i’ve been mildly chatty with our local post office personnel, since ive been receiving packages rather frequently for the past months. but today, they just delivered a package that was supposed to arrive sometime very late last year, or very early this year. good for them that: 1) they delivered the package, instead of giving me a notice to pick it up (the proper procedure); 2) and, i was asleep when the mailman arrived; yes, i would’ve shown him furious, eBay-related anger. not his fault personally, but its his departments neglect that took this package 2 months to get me, while it was just in their freaking office all the time.

i should NOT be finding myself ordering/bidding on anything online from now on. have to find time instead to actually use these toys.