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Wednesday
August  6, 2003

Jesse Paul Miller, Linda Peschong,  and I arrive at CoCA to show movies. We're early. Jesse and I walk down Pine for groceries--a turkey sandwich for me, Sparks, beer. At Broadway, I pick up a smashed cellphone from the middle of the street. Jess says, "Yeah--after the apocalypse." He borrows a Sharpie and draws a mushroon cloud on his arm. It looks kinda like broccoli. Today is the 58th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. What a surprise technology can be. I use it as a stencil, reminiscent of atomic flash shadows....