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Goodluck and Goodnight by James Roland When you are the chosen one, you realize something. You will be crucified. Which, one might think, would dampen your day. Except that the day before and the day after you will NOT be chosen, and it will be your turn to crucify, which you will do. Back in […]

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Sunset by Titus Gee I took Sunset Boulevard at 1 a.m. and got an unexpected tutorial on life in L.A. Sunset winds through the part of Hollywood that actually looks like Hollywood, where night life is the only real life there is. The air-brushed billboard models are 40 stories tall, the street is lined with […]

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Trust the Bike by Titus Gee I rode home through the canyons under the glare of a fiery sunset, the great red orb smoldering its way to earth through the smoke of the season’s first wildfires. It’s hot already, in the middle of March. Ninety degrees at noon. I felt the road calling to me […]

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New Roads by Titus Gee I took a different road to work today and rediscovered riding. It doesn’t seem like it should make that much difference. I take a curvy road through the canyons to work every day. But somehow a different set of curves and speeds and patterns got me grinning, despite the fact […]

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To really share the experience you have to ride that same six-inch strip of road round every curve and over every bump.

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Daydreaming at Work

by Rachel Fox on March 1, 2007

in Fenceposts

Daydreaming at Work by Rachel Deveau Often I find myself saying, work is especially slow today and I hate it. It is when it is slow that I am left to contemplate my state here at work. How did I get here and why did I think this was a good idea? Why did I […]

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Paradise Regained, the Hollywood Edition by James Roland A really cute Asian girl took a photo of me. Normally I would take this as flattery and strut around until I bumped into something, but seeing as she was a tourist on the Universal Studios tram tour I took it with a grain of rice and […]

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Editor’s note: In this series, RedFence Sr. Writer and Filmmaker James Roland takes a tour of this year’s five Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture. His reactions will be posted on Mondays and Wednesdays leading up to the awards ceremony, Feb. 25. Little Miss Sunshine by James Roland Very few filmmakers can mix classic farce […]

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Editor’s note: In this series, RedFence Sr. Writer and Filmmaker James Roland takes a tour of this year’s five Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture. His reactions will be posted on Mondays and Wednesdays leading up to the awards ceremony, Feb. 25. Best Pictures Part Four: Babel by James Roland Babel is the third installment […]

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There is something very pure and powerful about communication that has no motive outside of pure expression, that doesn’t have to earn its keep.

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