Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #33 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 . FIGHTING MONSTERS . Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”. I’ve been fighting a monster known as The Commonwealth of Virginia since my life was disrupted in … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #32 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 . PROSTITUTION? . As you know, prostitution is illegal almost everywhere in the USA. Should it or other “victimless crimes” be? That’s a question I’ve pondered over for years. Basically, I’m a Libertarian. I’m in favor of the smallest possible government … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #30 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY . When and where was photography invented? The standard story you will find in books on photographic history is that a Frenchman named Daguerre first fixed an image on a silver plated metal surface. The … Read more
. . Photography and Text by Ed Simmons, Copyright 2018 . VENICE BEACH TRASHED . OK, like the way most things go in Venice, we should hope too that this is transitory. God only knows it ain’t normal this blight. Walk out onto the sand, step in someone’s shit, maybe get stuck by a syringe … Read more