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Douglas R Keister's Blog
October 15, 2009
- My 38th book Forever L. A. : A Field Guide to Los Angeles Area Cemeteries and their Residents (Spring 2010) will have a chapter titled Reprised in Respose where I put together in text and photographs pairings and ensembles and tell you where to find those buried in the L. A. area. You'll be able to find out where Laurel and Hardy are buried, Burns and Allen, the cast of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, ...
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October 15, 2009
- Growing up in Nebraska, I was more than a little familiar with the monotonous terrain and lifestyle of our neighboring state, Kansas. And, the promise of Oz. In fact all of us carried Oz around with us. It was something called imagination. Oz, you see, is a state of mind. I’m not sure how Frank Baum came up with Kansas as the habitat of Dorothy, Toto and Auntie Em’. ...
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September 7, 2009
- Walmart Do you know how sometimes you just know that you shouldn’t say what you want to say because there’s going to be a karmic retribution price tag that goes along with it? Well, this is one of those times. In a perfect world, I’d be kind and understanding and sensitive and accepting and non-judgmental of other people. As long as they’re not doing something strange ...
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August 28, 2009
- When the Red Room topic of Bad Manners was proposed a couple days ago I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, well, I don’t have anything to say about that. No need to waste time on manners, bad or otherwise. Better to spend time writing my GREAT NOVEL, Desiree. Only 40,000 words to go (according to my agent). Then I caught myself. I always have something to say. Even if I don’t have something ...
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August 26, 2009
- Just got some news about my new book, Forever L. A.: A Field Guide to Los Angeles Area Cemeteries and Their Residents (Spring 2010). I just got the cover this week. The publisher is ready to send it to the printer as soon as they bury (inter) Michael Jackson so I can add that info to his bio. He is supposed to be laid to rest on September 3rd, but you never know for sure until it happens. I made ...
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August 19, 2009
- Sex, Religion and Politics? The thing about religion and politics is very few people really discuss them. What I see and hear is people pummeling others with their views. I don’t see much real open-minded discussion happening. Sex, though, that’s a whole different bag of marbles. I think people really do want to learn something about it from others. We want to learn how to DO IT right. ...
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August 6, 2009
- Just tell us what's on your mind--a lot of the time I’ve got too much time on my hands. I’ve authored and co-authored thirty-seven photo-driven books and for the first time since 1995 I don’t have an active (i.e. paying) book project. So, with that caveat, if you actually intend on reading these 1781 words from start to finish, I suggest you put in the laundry or maybe toss a batch of ...
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July 30, 2009
- My first book (my 37th comes out in Spring 2010) was a thin, but mighty photo-driven tome titled Driftwood Whimsy: The Sculptures of the Emeryville Mudflats. I had lived on the fringes of the San Francisco Bay Area town of Emeryville since 1971 and had marveled at the sculptures people surreptitiously constructed in the Emeryville Crescent, a wedge of swampy land nestled between busy Interstate ...
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July 30, 2008
- Pre-Burn: A Bittersweet Remembrance of the Days Before Burning ManAs the time of Burning Man approaches, my thoughts often turn to the before-time. There was an article in the SF Chronicle last Sunday July 27th about the area around the playa. After reading it I decided to pen this missive to illuminate some of the factors that lead to Burning Man. I went to Burning Man once as a guest in the ...
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July 21, 2008
- Douglas Keister has THREE books published in THREE months.Either by fate or design I've have three books slated for publication in three consecutive months. Teardrops and Tiny Trailers, my fourth book on vintage RV's and trailers, was released by Gibbs-Smith Publisher on July 1st. Lincoln in Black and White 1910-1925 (co-authored by writer Ed Zimmer) which features incredible images from my ...
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February 20, 2008
- The weather forecast says it's gonna be a crappy day on Saturday in San Francisco. Don't even think about kite flying at Crissy Field, lolling in the sun at Alamo Square or skipping along the Embarcadero. Just forget about it. The place to be (at least from 11am until noon) is Book Passge at the Ferry Building. I'll be signing copies of my latest children's book To Grandmother's House: A Visit to ...
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February 14, 2008
- HOOKER OAK FIELD, CHICO, CALIFORNIA. It's mid-February and the Boys of Summer have started to arrive. The air is filled with the crisp sound of leather slapping leather and the solid clack as bat and ball collide. There are also the gentle groans when muscles grown atrophied during the short winter months are summoned to perform once again and the snap of elastic as prosthetic devices are ...
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January 30, 2008
- Thank you Redroom for putting my latest book, To Grandmother's House: A Visit to Old-Town Beijing as ‘Best Review" for three days in a row. To Grandmother's House (my thirty-third book)is written in English and Mandarin (I only wrote the English). I photographed the story in April 2007. How does a book like this get photographed, written and published? Here's the story.In 1995 I ...
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January 28, 2008
- On Amazon there were 27 reader reviews of the Liar’s Diary. Here is the first line (or so) of the 21 five star reviews. Interestingly stringing them all together makes an interesting read. Go to http://www.patryfrancis.com and read about this talented author.The Liar's Diary is an excellent story of secrets and truth-telling. Who is lying and who is telling the truth? Who is lying to ...
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January 24, 2008
- First off, I'm no literary light or respected social commentator like some of the folks here at Redroom who are in the vaulted world where they are known simply by their first name. Even if I attain a one-name status, I just don't think "Doug" will ever have the cachet of a Maya, Khaled, Ishmael, Salman, Firoozeh or even Amy. Doug just falls kinda flat. I'd much prefer a Warren or ...
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