always.on.my.mind http://davidjdowns.com/blog observe with self-righteous astonishment as he clips and jots the path to utter oblivion. please mind the gap. Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:44:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Busted Stuff http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2011/02/busted-stuff/ http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2011/02/busted-stuff/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:44:43 +0000 J. http://davidjdowns.com/blog/?p=53 My car, ante-accident

]]> http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2011/02/busted-stuff/feed/ 0 East St. Louis Photo Tour http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2011/01/east-st-louis-photo-tour/ http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2011/01/east-st-louis-photo-tour/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:19:26 +0000 J. http://davidjdowns.com/blog/?p=46 For nearly all of my life, I’ve lived in thriving communities.  About half of these were “on the grow,” while the others were simply sustaining.  (While a very young boy, I did live in a community that was in decline; I don’t have many significant memories of this city, however.)  As such, I am fascinated by urban decay.  It seems incredible to me that a city can simply collapse over time, regardless of the causes.  In my gut, I know it shouldn’t seem strange—entropy and all that.  Even still.

Here’s an interesting photographic tour of East St. Louis, just two hours from here.

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]]> http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2010/12/chortle/feed/ 0 Quote of the Day http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2010/12/quote-of-the-day-2/ http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2010/12/quote-of-the-day-2/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:45:03 +0000 J. http://davidjdowns.com/blog/?p=40 “The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives.”
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]]> http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2010/12/terrafirma/feed/ 0 Quote of the Day http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2010/11/quote-of-the-day/ http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2010/11/quote-of-the-day/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:26:29 +0000 J. http://davidjdowns.com/blog/?p=5 “If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product.” ]]> http://davidjdowns.com/blog/2010/11/quote-of-the-day/feed/ 0