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    10 Impressions of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio

    Looking this way and that, high and low, up and down and all around on a recent walkabout in downtown Cincinnati: A Photo Essay

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  • Songs,  Video

    An “Over the Rainbow” Primer and Duet

    "Let the boys have the damn song." How "Over the Rainbow" almost didn't make the cut for "The Wizard of Oz." A look back at a "sacred" song in the American canon, on the occasion of a down-and-dirty music video version by the boys.

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  • Songs

    ‘Lo and Behold’ these two versions of one ‘godless’ song

    Here's a conversation with God about the whole idea of God. Raising the possibility that everywhere you turn can be an occasion for exclamations of 'Lo and behold ...'

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  • News

    When bulldogs take on Big Pharma

    What do you get when you mix a relentless avatar of sustained outrage with epic bad actors in pursuit of money over lives? An American journalism hero in West Virginia, is who.

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  • Poems,  Poetry

    Mr. Brainwash & Friends at Auction

    Who, pray tell, / was Mr. Brainwash? / Did Andy Warhol know? / These questions / agitate my head, as / my light goes red to green ...

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  • Memoir,  Photography

    A great lake filled with memories & negative ions

    Lakes and oceans talk to us in a language we don't understand with our cognition, but with our bodies. To be more specific, with our very cells. You might say it is the soothing language of negative ions. Here, try it ...

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  • Essays,  Photography

    A few thoughts on unfinished books and ancient wine vats

    What does it take to get a book into the world? A little help from St. Joseph the Worker, plus inspiration from an Old World wine vat on a steep Calabrian hillside. That's a good start.

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  • Essays,  Poetry

    ONE POEM: ‘The Masquerade’

    It is a forgetting, for one. / Dissolution into physical bliss, / which, as the head is so troubled, / so often, feels like a blessing ...

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  • Video

    How to experience a text rainstorm

    Still fun after all these years. On my timeline this morning, Facebook surfaced an offbeat video I did with my brother and a friend, from an encounter we had in 2013 with the truly cool, interactive video installation 'Text Rain.'

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  • Essays,  Video

    A brief and ‘alt-video’ tour of being way-out in Ohio

    Sometimes, in order to self-soothe, I make short, odd videos. Or 'alt-videos,' as I describe this one below in the end credits, with footage from wanderings from nuclear power plants to Lake Erie last week.

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  • Essays,  Poetry

    When the mic opens and the poetry flows

    I am walking past the multi-culti shops and through the lively streets of Ann Arbor after dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant, living the good life. What's that flyer say? 'Open Mic Poetry'? And it's tonight?!

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  • Memoir

    NOTATIONS: ‘Tick-tick-tick …’

    This quarter-century-old guestbook notation, scribbled and illustrated one cold February day on the grounds of a Buddhist monastery in the West Virginia hills, remains true, after all these years.

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  • Essays,  Photography

    The News from Lake Trumpbegone

    A StoryIsTheThing Public Service Announcement: It's Booking Day in NYC today! That will mean much malevolence, much media blathering, much of way too much muchness. When you need to tear your eyes from the spectacle, here are four images to ponder.

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  • Essays,  Photography

    Things I really should be doing

    I should be meditating. I should be writing a new chapter in my 'sorta memoir.' Or polishing an old one. I should not be eating pretzels & pepper jack cheese after 10 p.m. I should be sleeping. I should not be posting yet another black-and-white Instagram photo ...

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  • Essays,  Photography

    A moody, randomized amble in black-and-white

    Taking a stroll through some definitive black-and-white moods, from across a couple of states and several states of mind.

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TheStoryIsTheThing features essays, poetry, photography, video & experimental multimedia by writer, editor, multimedia producer, and itinerant musician Douglas John Imbrogno. SUBSCRIBE: thestoryisthething.substack.com | An AmpMediaProject.com production. REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglaseyeATgmail.com

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