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< November 2012 >

November 1, 2012
At this point, a loss means you`re done for the season. Nobody wants to be the one to let the team down. The final score (16-25, 25-17, 23-25, 22-25) reveals very little about how hard the teams played. The homecoming queen is also an athlete (see September 29, 2012). Serving for the final point in her final game of her final year of high school.

November 2, 2012
Don`t know the reason he stayed here all season. Commemorating the Day of the Dead. Hey, big guy. Part of the evening`s entertainment. All of my mother`s fears about me living in the Oregon District just came true.

November 3, 2012
We`ll check back with you in LATE November to see how you`re doing. Where Skittles come from. And now, an opposing viewpoint to the sunny flower photo. Planning ahead for next year. The world is molting.

November 4, 2012
I got an extra hour of sleep this morning, but then I spent it resetting the time on all my clocks, watches and cameras. I`m rooting for the little guy. I like to enjoy a good pipe every now and then. Along for the ride. A cigarette that bears a lipstick`s traces, an airline ticket to romantic places, these foolish things remind me of you. ERIC MASCHWITZ

November 5, 2012
FALL CONCERT! Eager to serve. She`ll be ready in a minuet. You don`t need to believe me, of course, but these are the same feet that I showed you on October 17, 2009. As leader of the pep band, she must have the most pep. She was last seen here as Juliet on November 15, 2011.

November 6, 2012
Not if one of my coworkers has her way: `They should charge a $2 fee to vote, and then most of these people wouldn`t bother.` I think one of us is in the wrong country. Placidity. One recognizable object in the middle of mystery. I didn`t wear it, since it came from the Ohio Secretary of State who (like my coworker mentioned in the first photo) wants to limit the voting rights of `these people.` It`s beginning to look a lot like -- wait, stop!

November 7, 2012
You`re welcome. Now it`s too dark to take pictures after work. Pop cans no longer have pull tabs that come off and get tossed on the ground. Someday these will go away too. What a character! I screamed, you screamed, when I dropped my ice cream.

November 8, 2012
Wilbur and Orville used to hang out here. Conjunction Junction, what`s your function? Night school. Did you see that movie called `Sphere`? I stopped by RiverScape on my way to the public library.

November 9, 2012
One of the creepiest locations I`ve ever taken pictures in. Trying to tell me something? A neighborhood icon seen in a new light. We`ve already established that it`s too dark for me to take pictures after work, and yet I continue to do it. Why so happy, chappy?

November 10, 2012
One leaf is picturesque. A yard full of them is a nuisance. Partly cloudy. Taken in between the clouds. What kind of cars parked here when this sign was new? A small and highly-strung little dog was barking at me from a nearby window as I took this picture.

November 11, 2012
Life, death and dying all in one photograph. The shadow of a falling leaf fluttered by, but I missed it. The city council hopes that the new shelter over Dayton will significantly reduce the cost of snow removal this winter. The cemetery needs a fence. People are dying to get in. It was a windy Veterans Day.

November 12, 2012
`Welcome to Marion`s Pizza. May I take your order?` The crust is thin and crispy. The toppings are plentiful (don`t forget the anchovies). It`s served hot from the oven. And they cut it into SQUARES!

November 13, 2012
They are NOT playing powderpuff football outdoors when it`s below freezing. I guess my photos prove that they are. I`ll get by with a little help from my friends. Did I mention it was below freezing? There was frost on my camera bag, and I could barely move my fingers. And yet the girls continued to play -- very hard. I was able to witness a 102-yard interception return for a touchdown. SHE . . . COULD . . . GO . . . ALL . . . THE . . . WAY! It was a three-game tournament. I left after the second game, but the players had to remain outside in the cold

November 14, 2012
It`s time to raise the curtain, it`s time to light the lights. It`s time to get things started on The Muppet Show tonight! A little gray hair spray and a high school student looks old. I stood beside him and said, `There is NOT a camera in the room.` When a giant cake was rolled onto the stage, I had a feeling that SOMEBODY was going to pop out of it. I`m not sure what the show was about, but it was funny.

November 15, 2012
Cans of animal repellent showed up outside my doorway. This is the time of year when raccoons move in upstairs. The autumnal paradox: you can allow leaves to litter your lawn and sidewalk, or you can rake them to the curb . . . An ugly mess of leaves in your yard is just fine, but rake leaves to the curb and you`ll get a $75 fine from the city. No good deed goes unpunished. Wouldn`t it be better just to leave the leaves in the trees? High school seniors from 1932 looked older than today`s.

November 16, 2012
Scenes from a wrestling room. You wear these over your ears during a wrestling match so you can`t hear yourself screaming in pain. Mail order catalog season has arrived. I no longer buy junk out of vending machines, so what am I supposed to do with my wealth? I feel like Silas Marner. For a $100 donation, I received this hat. I`ve worn it once.

November 17, 2012
I was a clean fiend today. I even got the car washed. You remember her from April 10, 2010? Sure ya do. Within the same piece, he played Linus and Lucy, Peter and the Wolf, and Do You Know the Way to San Jose. While he played, I ate some honey lavender ice cream.

November 18, 2012
Rusty Griswold. My car in an urban wasteland. At least it`s clean. Near these baseballs, I found a bat. Nope -- not that kind. A REAL bat, dead on the ground. I guess you could say Dayton`s bats have gone silent. Out in left field.

November 19, 2012
My way of life is fall`n into the sere, the yellow leaf and that which should accompany old age. `Macbeth,` Act V Scene 3 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Someone had a Halloween party in this empty store and just left everything behind. `The bell is going to ring at 3:15,` the school secretary told me. `You`ll probably want to stay out of the way.` `Gymnasium` is a Greek word. Don`t ask what it means. It was a dark and warmy night.

November 20, 2012
Afternoon mass on a school day. Photographers go to a lot of trouble to avoid reflections. But sometimes reflections improve the picture. This one is all about reflections. See me in there? I was startled when the driver came out of the house, however she was more startled to discover this on her car.

November 21, 2012
Sun porch. We ignore them while they`re green, but love them when they turn colors. At that point, it`s a bit late. Last call for roses. A subtle hint from a coworker. One if by land, two if by sea.

November 22, 2012
Punch bowl. Yes, please. This, somehow, is now the family dog. tiqu Abandoned Oregon District storefront No. 2 this week.

November 23, 2012
CRUNCH! Abandoned Oregon District storefront No. 3 this week. The used bookstore didn`t last long, so this will turn into a tattoo parlor (though there`s another in the same block). On the day after Thanksgiving, I had to go to work and do dull and repetitive tasks, but at least it was INDOORS. An old relic of my neighborhood (Get it? Neigh-borhood!). Walking through a dark alley, feeling cold and uncreative.

November 24, 2012
Token of forgotten fishermen. Reminiscent of some of the ill-conceived watercraft from August 8, 2010; August 9, 2009; August 10, 2008; August 5, 2006; and August 14, 2005. Hanging around the pond. A cold day for a swim. Nobody will find where I`ve hidden the Christmas gifts.

November 25, 2012
A case of pumpkincide. Round up the usual squirrels. This great blue heron, about the same size as me, fled the pond as I approached. We had startled each other. It was an artificial pond so the fish had nowhere to go -- except into the heron`s beak. A face only a vegetarian could love. These must be inedible, or else SOME creature would be nibbling on them right about now.

November 26, 2012
Ornamentality. Incogneat-o. Imitation is the sincerest form of laziness (see November 18 above). I think I already took a picture like this too, but at least it wasn`t recently. Man mowing a parking lot. You saw it here first.

November 27, 2012
It`s Christmastime in the city. Excuse me while I touch the sky. Honey, I think something`s wrong with the toaster. Holiday fatigue already. I`m wearing four shirts, and still I`m freezing.

November 28, 2012
Winter won`t even start for another three weeks. Please wait for the hostess to seat you. Another restaurant . . . this one vacant. Muscle man. In 1959, the U. S. military developed a scheme, called Plan A119, for detonating an atomic bomb on the moon. Just imagine what they could be planning right now.

November 29, 2012
You`ve seen her before, very briefly, on March 30, 2012. The drive to succeed. `I HATE THE TWO-MAN TRAP!` Sharing is for sissies. The hazards of playing on the road.

November 30, 2012
This fence says: `Merry Christmas! Go away!` Still grateful for my dull and repetitive - and indoor - job. Who`s watching you? I walk through this alley every day. Well, maybe not today. Neighborhood Christmas tree.

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