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Time Traveling in ’22 – edition three
14 Monday Nov 2022
Posted in 2022, 22TimeTrav
It’s Time Trav number three!
This is the third of a series of posts entitled Time Travel in ’22 with MTK (categorized 22TimeTrav) in which I link back to the archive to posts from on or around today’s date. Meta. In this case it’s links from the month of November over the last 31 years.
IN THIS MONTH, NOVEMBER, I …
31 years ago … was “Carter Ryan” News and Sports Radio Anchor on Intercontinental Radio Taiwan (ICRT)
27 years ago … wrote an article about Rigo 95 for *surface magazine and began a ten year friendship with him
26 years ago … wrote some poems
26 years ago … witnessed the death of a close family friend and wrote about it
22 years ago … covered the Florida Fiasco of the 2000 Election for George magazine
20 years ago … wrote about the off-year elections and accused the Bush Administration of fascism
18 years ago … wrote a public letter to Senator Barbara Boxer beseeching her to contest the election
17 years ago … summarized the tremendous amount of work I did for Pacifica Radio
16 years ago … wrote this poem about changing India
15 years ago … wrote and self-published a poem as an artists book
14 years ago … wrote a detailed analysis of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai
12 years ago … was downtown in San Francisco as the Giants won the World Series
11 years ago … began a book about technology and society called Plug/Unplug
10 years ago … created this blog! and took footage of pelicans and coastal california
9 years ago … covered the 40-year North Oakland tradition called the Turkey Shoot
7 years ago … a poem about the maddening flow of time
6 years ago … did some work about Bob Dylan after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature
5 years ago … some art and kayaked Lake Austin with my son
There you go: thirty-one years of Novembers in:
Taiwan, India, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and San Antonio.
I never sought recognition or made much of an effort to promote myself. That’s why I put everything here. I still seek help to publish and produce both work from the past and current work and am, as always, open to proper collaboration that could get me wider reach, without compromising the identity I have worked so hard to maintain.
Best,
mtk
Time Traveling ’22 with MTK – edition two: Octobers
25 Tuesday Oct 2022
Posted in 2022, 22TimeTrav
It’s Time Trav number two!
This is the second of a series of posts entitled Time Travel in ’22 with MTK (categorized 22TimeTrav) in which I link back to the archive to posts from on or around today’s date. Meta. In this case it’s links from the month of October over the last 38 years.
IN THIS MONTH, OCTOBER …
38 Years Ago … at twilight, I took this picture with 35mm film of Matt Sherwood and John Gentz
28 years ago … Kenny Trice took this picture of me having a cigar on Ocean Beach
27 years ago … I wrote a poem entitled “Memorandum” – (really liked this one, think stylistically it was ahead of its time)
26 years ago … wrote more poetry in my journals
25 years ago … wrote my first koan. And a short story called, “We,” – the editors of The New Yorker hand-wrote a rejection on one of their cards that read, “this is more like one we’d publish,” or something like that. Was thrilled to receive that, I remember
24 years ago … MY THIRD NOVEL! “Karna’s Conflict,” was completed. Originally typewritten in three days, this unappreciated gem was posted online before and during the Millennium
23 years ago … wore a shirt that read “Fuck Rudy,” to the Sensation exhibit at Brooklyn Museum of Art, when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tried to censor it
20 years ago … produced this music video with Frank Sosa using footage by A.P. Ferrara from the massive protest against war as a reaction to 9/11 that was held in Washington, D.C.
19 years ago … I covered the Recall Election that installed Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor of California for Pacifica Radio and BBC drive time radio in the UK
17 years ago … completed the artist’s book, dereliction, which now resides in the permanent collection at Stanford. I was very proud of that one. Hello, Stanford? Get in touch.
15 years ago … recorded the sound of an F/A 18 Jet as it screamed over my head during Fleet Week in San Francisco
14 years ago … finished a short story I had been working on for the previous seven years, entitled: “Before You Came.”
13 years ago … attended Steph Curry’s first game and filmed it with digital camera!
12 years ago … The Giants won the pennant and I was with the fans at the yard
11 years ago … ended my campaign for Mayor of San Francisco
10 years ago … the Giants won the world series again
8 years ago … they did it again
5 years ago … reviewed “Manhattan Beach,” by Jennifer Egan
There you go: thirty-eight years of Octobers in:
San Antonio, New York, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco.
I never sought recognition or made much of an effort to promote myself. That’s why I put everything here. I still seek help to publish and produce both work from the past and current work and am, as always, open to proper collaboration that could get me wider reach, without compromising the identity I have worked so hard to maintain.
Best,
mtk
Time Travel in ’22 with MTK – edition one
10 Wednesday Aug 2022
Posted in 2022, 22TimeTrav
This site is a treasure trove of memories. I created it when I was 40, updated it when I was 50, and now at 55, I am blogging here contemporaneously. Today begins a series of posts entitled Time Travel in ’22 with MTK (categorized 22TimeTrav) in which we link back to the archive to posts that are on or around today’s date.
ON THIS DAY I …
30 Years Ago … photographed families on two-wheelers in Taiwan.
25 Years Ago … mailed a ‘letter to the editor’ of The New Yorker magazine.
17 Years Ago … recorded cicadas in Kamakura, Japan.
12 Years Ago … wrote the very first post for Giants Baseball Corner, entitled, “Eleven to Eleven in the bottom of the Eleventh,” it’s a perfect memory.
10 Years Ago … took a photo of summer flora in Oakland.
8 Years Ago … wrote about my concerns for the Buddy Calk Trailhead of the Leon Creek Waterway in San Antonio, Texas.
5 Years Ago … wrapped up Giants Baseball Corner, it went on hiatus for three years, and wrote an explanatory post about what you could find here, since that was the year I added all the other stuff.
There you go: thirty years of August tenthishness in:
Taiwan, NYC, Japan, San Francisco, Oakland and San Antonio.
with love from,
M.T. Karthik
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