Thanks for getting this fascinating story out. I've always enjoyed your writing.

Let's call it whichever has a longer prison sentence.

I’ve never seen the point. Do you guys photograph car races or something?

I live in a small, purple city in the US. I wish you could come here and see the kindness of my community, which includes significant populations of Hmong, Laotian, Somali, and Latino people—mostly from Central Mexico. I know what you see on tv and her on bluesky, etc. But it's not the whole story.

Several daguerrotypes from the 1840s.

Honestly, I think I'm over my Nikon SLRs. If I'm honest with myself, I don't need them and pretty much choose rangefinders for 35mm every time. The things they do better, I tend to do with a digital camera. I've been thinking about selling them (and the lenses) to fund the purchase of a Leica M2.

Is it M12 or M18?

Yes. I called them up and asked. I’m getting close to the end of my 400’ roll.

This is wild! I left NY while Giuliani was still mayor, I could never have imagined this! It was just after 9/11 and I was volunteering for Mark Green's mayoral campaign. I thought that would have been amazing. But this! I did not have New York governed by a socialist on my bingo card.

I didn't mind Frank Lloyd Wright's solution to this: Usonian. I like the way it sounds.

Are you sure you're not from Wisconsin?

That's some bad ass knurling

Sure, but I suspect everyone already has a heap. At least I do. The best merch are consumables. Things like notebooks or pencils.

And now it's in mine... you put a spell on me.

Rick Perlstein

We'll be there the week of January 14...

Well, you are welcome to grace our state any time.

Are you a fellow Son of the Badger? Child of the Cheese? Boy of the Bubbler? Ol’ Man of the Ol’ Fashioned? Brother of the Fonz?