Professional

I'm Known For...

Being choosy about what I take seriously

My Current Project

I'm kinda into the entrophy thing

My Greatest Achievement

Never in a million years of ego-dripping, hard-nosed writing and photographing did I ever think I say something as sappy as this: My two daughters, Celia and Lucy

My Biggest Regret

Regrets are for suckers. Though, now I regret writing that.

I Truly Respect

Xerophytes.

Moments I'd Like To Forget

Calling home on 9/11 from somewhere in Arizona and not knowing for sure if I'd make it back

How I Pay For This Wardrobe

The neighborhood Goodwill Store security officer has a glass eye. Know which one it is and, well, take this ensemble in

Blocks I've Been Around

Love, Haight, 1600 Goethe, Eastern

Things That Really Happened

A category 4 tornado scoured my family's home from the earth in 1967. We survived in what should have been the wrong corner of the basement. A Chicago Transit Authority bus was perched just above the correct corner

Where I'd Like To Be 10 Years From Now

Well into my retirement job as a half-blind guard at some second-hand store

Why True/Slant

Beyond the fact that they know news is more than what happens? Can't think of another reason

My Other Website

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimnashlinked

Personal

What I'm Currently Addicted To...

Long road trips

This Is Annoying Me...

How the History Channel has turned into the main vein for conspiracists and doomsayers

This Is Making Me Worry...

Anti-science

This Is Bringing Me Joy...

My super-fast 85-mm portrait lens

I'm Running From...

A past that's sexy in it's darkness

This Is Helping Me Create...

This blog? Hopefully, it's helping me create an 8x8 cubicle for reason and cool science

This Is Making Me Think - Hard...

The lyrics of Tom Waits

This Makes My Teeth Itch

Really fine dirt on my palms. For my mom, it was cotton balls. Just goes to show it's always something

Can't Do Without

Pineapple-orange juice

Favorite Voices

Lucy Nash, Celia Nash, Edward James Olmos, Studs Turkel

My Most Awkward Moment

Ironically acting like a hipster doofus at a Chicago intersection for the entertainment of a friend who'd already turned away. Not so for all the people standing immediately around me

My Secret Ambition

To have the estate of Ansel Adams see enough potential in me to give me all of his equipment