Pocked

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G P (oop)S

It would appear someone at Garmin was phoning it in, probably on the Friday before a holiday weekend ... or perhaps the Tuesday after!



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Taxi Pub(lic Establishment)

One of the reasons I love living in Illinois. Don't get me wrong... there are reasons I hate living in Illinois, too.

And one more flood shot (that I discovered I had taken with my Nikon and promptly forgotten about...) Saturday morning.

In the foreground to the right is a small field behind a restaurant. Beyond the little strip of green poking through just beyond the field is Tonne Drive. By Sunday afternoon all of the flooding was gone in the northwest suburbs.

Another Lucky Day...IF I Had Played the Lottery

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Overnight Storm

Normally, flooding like this occurs when a nearby river or stream breaches its banks and inundates the surrounding areas. This flooding — widespread throughout the Chicago northwest suburbs — occurred in low-lying areas due simply to rainfall last night ... 6.9 inches in a matter of a few hours will do that.


Later during the day I caught this car flirting with me.





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Two Faces

Self-Portait 2011 Taken with iPhone4.



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Should I Have Played the Lottery Today Instead?

Below is another shot of the dispatch terminal display in my taxi.

In this dispatch order, the top line displays the address where I am supposed to pick up this person. PACE is a regional transportation service and, when their buses aren't available, PACE sends taxis to its customers and subsidizes their fares. For the fare in the display, the passenger only had to pay a little more than 1/3 the actual $14.53 fare (don't worry... PACE reimburses me the rest).




The photo below displays my taxi number.





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Heat Tsunami

Okay, is the "point-four" really necessary now?
(Approximately 12 noon.)



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Reflagtion

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Light Play

LED video light to play with + iPhone + dark room =






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The Write Touch

Yes, the keys are dirty. How else would I write dirty words?

(Post-post post: I didn't notice until several minutes after I posted that if you let your mind wander a little Boggle™-style you can form the non-word "werds" from the keys visible in the photo!)

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July 16, 2005

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(This photo is down temporarily.)

Some of the women in my family, gathered for one woman's high school graduation party.

(Yes, I forgot to take a photo today.)

(Again.)

(Oh... and my ex-wife. Oops.)

(And one sister's ex-roommate. Double oops.)

Here's a photo of two of my sisters and one niece, and some women who — though pictured — are no longer in the picture.


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Water Tower ... From Outer Space!

Water Tower, Des Plaines, Illinois.
Photo: Tony Gasbarro, iPhone 4.

It didn't strike me this way when I took the photo, but it sorta looks like an alien space ship landing, especially if you imagine the legs as energy beams easing it to the ground...and, perhaps, if you've been eating funny pills....



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Cloudy, Cloudy Night

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Where My Writing Is These Days

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Another "End-Of-Day" Themed Shot

When I don't wanna work no more, I use the car's on-board terminal to tell the dispatch system that I'm off duty. A few moments later it logs me out of the system. Then it's sleepy time. Or movie time.



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Hummel A Few Bars

Flash fiddlin'.



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Context Isn't Always Your Friend

Even knowing this price is down about 57 cents from the highest it got at this particular gas station brings me no comfort.



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Karaoke-dokee

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What I Did On My Staycation, Day 5

Chocolate chip banana bread and Verona blend coffee by Starbucks



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What I Did On My Staycation, Day 4

The War, a film by Ken Burns



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What I Did On My Staycation, Day 3

The War, a film by Ken Burns



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What I Did On My Staycation, Day 2

The War, a film by Ken Burns



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What I Did On My Staycation, Day 1

SiCKO, a film by Michael Moore.



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"...And The Pursuit of Cupcakes."

Firecracker Cupcakes by Katherine Snowdon. Photo by Tony Gasbarro.



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He Breaks Fast With the Clown?

Rare is it that I can say, "That guy looks like..." and finish the sentence, because I usually am unable to think of the name of the guy that guy looks like. But today I finished it: "...James Lipton!"


James Lipton



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They're All Long Days...At Least They End

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Another End of Another Long Day

The laptop is now part of my mobile office, with which I use a spreadsheet to track and tally my fares each day.

Oh... and Facebook the rest of the time...



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Phlog's Flags

The red, white and two shades of blue. And some green. And the ever-present smudge from the dirt ball on my sensor.

Long Day Done

Receipts



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Inactive Passion

Mr. Nikon sits idle too often.



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Sexy Liberal

Nice venue, fun show!

Then went and got semi-shit-faced at the bar next to the Goodman Theater a couple blocks away. I mike lartinis!



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Shake A Spear. Straighten Arrow?

Wow! I'm not in this play!



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Rack of Lame

June 25, 2009

Not quite two years ago, because I don't appear to have taken a photo on June 23...EVER.

Calling It A Day

The dispatch computer reflects that I'm no longer at work.



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Banguets

The lone rearranger is back at it, so it seems, however I think "banguets" is original. Perhaps they didn't mind their 'Qs'so well.



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From The (I Didn't Take a Damn Photo Today) Archives

"The Moon Through Hazy Clouds, or I Was Drunk When I Snapped This"
June 20, 2010



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Getting Cluck Cluck Closer!

They still have a ways to go. No Opening date posted anywhere I saw, but I'm guessing late August/early September.



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Taxi Cam

Long story short, I happened to let the PR director of the taxi company know I'm an actor just as she was trying to find people who could help her with some commercial ideas for the company. She asked me if I would be interested in being in a commercial, and I said I would rather make the commercial for her. After a few weeks of meetings, writing spots and planning out a shoot, we did production on a spot called "Affordable Therapy," which will appear here at Phlog when it's finished. Read more at far·ra·go within the next few days for the full story and more photos from the shoot.



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Fashion Sensei

I spent most of Friday outside of the taxi shooting for the FashionCents blog/website. My friend Sean helped create it with Kim Turner, who gives fashion tips to budget-conscious women who visit the site. Sean and Kim put up a new video each week, but sometimes Sean is unable to shoot them, so he asks me...and he pays me!



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Making the Sky Interesting

Sometimes, to be awed you just have to look up.



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Storm Sunrise

A storm rolled in from the west and encroached on the sunrise in front of me. It was an eerie glow in the gloom.



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I'm So Uninspired, You'd Think This Was a Food Blog...

I'm out of grill gas at the moment, so I get these at the grocery. They're very good and fall-off-the-bone tender! There's probably something in them that's killing me, but WTF, right?



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Spanish for "Nom nom nom."

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