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Traveller, photographer, open-mic musician, cyclist. Skeptical, not cynical.

Living in Oaxaca. Traveling by bus, visiting communities in these valleys and mountains.

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Yanhuitlan, Mexico

A teaser for an upcoming story about my visit to a tiny village with a massive 16th Century church.

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A collage from Yanhuitlan, Mexico, a tiny empty village on a secondary road northwest of Oaxaca where sits an enormous church built by Mixtec labor in the 16th century. Soon to be my next Substack article.
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Today in Oaxaca

Enjoying huevos al gusto in a mom-and-pop cafe while Marilyn watches over me.

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#oaxaca #travel
An old poster of Marilyn Monroe in a Iittle Oaxaca cafe.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Oaxaca, Mexico
Summer & Fall 2025

Four more recent phone shots from my Oaxaca Squares series.

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#travelphotography #travelshots #oaxaca
Taco peddler in Oaxaca Centro Family run taco table in Barrio La Noria. Hat vendor in the tourist zone near Santo Domingo Church. Travelers under the colonnade next to Oaxaca’s Zócalo.
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Today in Oaxaca

Seems like I stumbled across a theme this morning. Both taken with my iPhone.

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#oaxaca #mexico #travel #travelphotography
A diptych from my local streets. Rough architecture, both featuring a Christian cross as a found object.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Oaxaca, Mexico 2025

Four more from my Oaxaca Squares gallery. All taken in the last few months with my iPhone.

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#oaxaca #mexico #travel
Bell ringer at Templo y Convento de San Francisco de Asís a few blocks south of the Zocalo. Two nuns taking a stroll in the historical district. Local shopkeepers hamming it up for a photograph. Woman waiting outside one of the entrances to the vast Abasto street market.
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Oaxaca, Mexico 2025

Four more from my Oaxaca Squares gallery. All taken in the last few months with my iPhone.

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#oaxaca #mexico #travel
Bell ringer at Templo y Convento de San Francisco de Asís a few blocks south of the Zocalo. Two nuns taking a stroll in the historical district. Local shopkeepers hamming it up for a photograph. Woman waiting outside one of the entrances to the vast Abasto street market.
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Dug out some phone shots taken around Oaxaca since June. I then made an album of the ones I liked in Lightroom. Here’s the first group of four.

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Early morning street scene on the outskirts of Oaxaca. Early morning in a Oaxaca hillside community. Passengers arriving from the many small communities scattered throughout the valleys radiating out from Oaxaca. Morning worker in Oaxaca’s Barrio La Noria.
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Sunset in Oaxaca
November, 2025

From last night. Walking through the historic Centro district, post-Day Of The Dead.

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A diptych of sunset shots in Oaxaca, Mexico.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Ocampo y Rayón
Oaxaca, Mexico
November, 2025

With this week’s Lucha Libre posters.

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Man with bicycle waiting to cross at a typical Oaxaca Centro street corner.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Apartment Lobby
Oaxaca, Mexico
November, 2025

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Black and white study of an apartment building lobby in Oaxaca, Mexico’s historic center.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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This is how it’s done, folks!

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BREAKING: Hungary explodes with MASSIVE protests against Russian-backed Orban government. Peter Magyar is demolishing Orban in the polls and if there’s a free election, Putin loses his puppet. Protest...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Great history about rebels writing in the shadows for years against Diaz, leading up to the 1910 revolution.

Often from the US then smuggled in. The power of words.

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October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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By tomorrow, the only person who won’t have seen this video is Mike Johnson,

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 19
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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New Circumspectral

I write about Day Of The Dead, found art & Oaxacan civic planning.
Plus, morning in Puebla.

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October 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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I’m beginning to believe Mike Johnson is kept in a hermetically sealed capsule between interviews.

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catpushmike.bsky.social Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · Oct 18
Good word! I wonder what H. T. Webster would think if he knew then its platonic ideal would be 3rd in line for the presidency 100 years later.
Origin of word, “milquetoast”.
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Good word! I wonder what H. T. Webster would think if he knew then its platonic ideal would be 3rd in line for the presidency 100 years later.
Origin of word, “milquetoast”.
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Antifa have completed their assault on Portland, Oregon and are now back at their vast compound beneath Mount Shasta in Northern California planning further actions.

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Apocalyptic cityscape. May or may not be Portland, Oregon.
October 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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In the end, kindness will win.

Read my latest.

A Village Half Full:
The Education Of A Gringo

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Words of Pyotr Kropotkin, Russian geographer and anarchist. “Sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life. Those species which willingly or unwillingly abandon it are doomed to decay,”
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I wrote about the vast secondary transport system serving 4M people in Oaxaca’s three valley region. I’m building a map to plot as many stations as I can find. There are dozens scattered around the city’s Centro district, but no source material that lists them in one place. (see photos below)
Mystery In San Miguel
A Village Half Full
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September 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Tlacolula, Mexico is where you catch the bus to San Miguel del Valle.

I witnessed firsthand a sad perspective on the migrant crisis here in Oaxaca state.

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September 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Mystery In SanMiguel Del Valle

Another perspective on the migrant crisis from the other side of the border.

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Mystery In San Miguel
A Village Half Full
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September 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Barrio La Noria, Oaxaca

Not on the tourist radar like trendy Jalatlaco & Xochimilco, La Noria is emerging quietly at the SE edge of Oaxaca’s Centro Historico.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Uruapan, Mexico
September 16, 1988

Happy Independence Day, mis amigos y amigas!

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Independence Day, Sept. 16, 1988. Uruapan, Mexico.
September 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Followers of Charlie Kirk, offended by a Canadian journalist accurately describing the right’s long public history of making violent threats, respond with, wait for it, more violent threats. Really ugly stuff.

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After the murder of Charlie Kirk, conservatives piled on Rachel Gilmore for expressing a well-founded fear. Then came violent threats.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Sure, you say you’re a blues fan, but are you this much of a blues fan?

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Old album cover of 101 Strings Plays The Blues.
September 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM