October 11th 1996:

Las Noticias
(The news)

I didn't accomplish much today, as it is my custom to be lazy. Julie says that I'm merely resting my brain. I like that idea. I saw the 10 min of the V.P. debates the other night. Staunch Rupublican that I am, I'm leaning more and more toward Clinton Gore. It really was the 15% tax cut that pushed me over the edge. It sounds real nice, but...

Discovery

On the 10th of October, I found an amazing site. If you travel north from Eugene to Junction City, it isn't too difficult to find pieces what I call "Contemporary Artifacts." At a particular site on this road, I found an unused lot of about an acre. Four trailor homes in various stages of decay were left abandoned. As always, I was attracted to these former homes to investigate. At first, I was a bit wary of the trailers due to their physical states (bad and worse), but that feeling gave way to interest and pity. It seems to me that these castaway homes, speak of a times, of memories fogotten, and only echos and shadows of them remain.

The atmosphere in sites like this is usually very tangible, almost to the point of being cliché. "So thick you could cut it with a knife." Not really true in that sense, but there were echos of events present everywhere. A former kitchen's floor was completely carpeted in old magazines, some with the one-time latest news of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's estrangement. Cracked fixtures, and an abandoned washing machine were testiment to times past. The people have gone, but the objects remain.

More Later,