• 21
    Nov

    A quick peek

    Here’s a pic of Matthew, my partner, with a participant at Pemex, in Leon, MX.  Who is having more fun?   Or, in the language of esta pais:  Aquí está una foto de Mateo, mi pareja, con un participante en Pemex, en León, MX. ¿Quién está teniendo más diversión?

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  • 20
    Nov

    Imagine a world without hate.

    I’m tapping this out on my ipad from Leon, MX: but wanted to share it.  Every year my mom shoots ADL, the AntiDefamation League.  Every year, she meets this lady who survived the holocaust.  They’ve become friends.  Here is the pic from today. Mom is on the right. A simple message from a group focusing […]

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  • 08
    Nov

    The Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders VS The Conservative Caucus

    In honor of tomorrow’s annual shoot with the Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders, I’m telling this story…. Sometimes, when a new client calls, you take a risk.  Are they looking for you?  Or, are they searching for someone you’re not. ***** “This is Mike Gatty, the photographer.” “Hi, Mike, this is Barbara Zahn of the Philadelphia Eagles. […]

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  • 06
    Nov

    Life with David

    David grew up in a waterfront mansion, the product of one of the oldest families in Sussex County.  The antique estate is Southern style, with three deep water docks and a pontoon boat tied to the bulkhead. Back during his childhood, Delaware was a segregated state — and David went to the “colored school” because […]

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  • 05
    Nov

    The Day I Met David

    As some of you may know, Matthew and I take care of a special needs adult — David — who lives wth us.  Or, do we live with him?  I’m never sure.  In truth, it was I who moved in with Matthew and David, not David who moved in with Matthew and I.  While this […]

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  • 31
    Oct

    Post Script Trabajo en Mexico: LA VERDAD? The truth?

    I was going to start a multi part blog post today about when I owned Cool World, my old aquarium store.  But I still have more to say about Trabajo en Mexico, my job in Mexico.  A post script. First, despite the brush with Policia Federales, despite my idiocy of losing my exit paper and […]

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  • 30
    Oct

    Trabajo en Mexico: Parte 5 Abierto a Ocho.

    I fell into bed on the third floor of the Juan Peron Aeropuerto International (wait, that’s not the name!  Juan Peron was Argentina….how could I ever make that mistake?) in the weirdest Hilton you have ever seen. Even the room lighting was weird.  Fluorescent?  I think?  I’m not sure, but it was a blueish, greenish […]

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  • 28
    Oct

    When I learned upgrade is better.

    When I was a little kid, my mom would be driving Izzy, the 1972 Ford Pinto, and I would be seated in the back seat.  This was before Ford Pintos were recalled for spontaneously combusting. We’d go past a mansion, often an embassy — I grew up near Washington, DC, and going past the embassy […]

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  • 23
    Oct

    Green Screen, Lines, and Model Moments

    Yesterday, a client called about an event I have coming up in December.  It’s the coolest event!  We go to two different retirement communities (these are VERY high end properties), and do holiday card photos.  Last year, we offered actual holiday cards printed from Vista Print, in addition, participants could upload the photos to social […]

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  • 23
    Oct

    The World's Suckiest Hotel (Part 2)

    Let’s recap from part I, like the “previously on Dexter” series episodes: Our hero (me) checks into the swanky 5 star hotel, the Ritz Carlton LA Live!, a monolith of a building reaching into the LA sky like a hustler on five doses of Viagra.  Our hero (me) asked for a room on an upper […]

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