The Dagger started as a zine, a little self-published, low cost publication that would come out irregularly in editions of 500 to 1000, and be sent off to a mailing list and given to friends and acquaintances. It featured work by regular contributors and new writers as well. There were nine editions in the mid-90s, and then it morphed into its web-only form, thedagger.com.
Now we are hearing a lot about blogs, and it seems to me that blogs and zines are similar in that they take advantage of communications technology to enable freelance and independent journalism.
The term "blog" comes from "web log," and it refers to a log or journal maintained on the web. It may be interesting; it may be narcissistic. You can judge. If this interests you, welcome. In the meantime, it allows me to archive my most interesting pictures.
"And this was really the way that my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell."
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists 'make' drawings and paintings while photographers 'take' photographs. But the photographic image...cannot be simply a transparency of something that happened. It is always the image that someone chose; to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude."
— Susan Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others
December 2006 - Visit from Xochitl
Xochitl, Elissa and Jose visit. We go places and do things.
November 2006 - Visit to Baltimore
Baltimore, Washington, DC, New York. Visits with family and friends. Cityscapes and museums.
September 2006 - LA and environs
Mt. Hilyar, Cactus Gallery show, Long Beach
September 2006 - End of road trip, Salem to LA
Mt. Shasta, Weed, Stockton. Goddess of Justice
August
2006 - Salem and Seattle
Oregon State Penitentiary, Pike Street Market, Seattle Public Library, Mike's place, Oregon State Fair, Riverfront Park, Xochi's new school.
August
2006 - Road trip to Salem
Grass Valley with Robb, Brian and the Reynolds extended family. Nevada City. Tahoe. Bears. Northeast California, including Tule Lake and Lava Beds National Monument. Oregon scenery, Klamath Falls to Salem
LA Zoo with Amani and Ebony. Controversial Glendale lampposts.
Aurelijus' party, stretch therapy with Linda Lack, Jazz Assassins at the Taste of San Pedro, Turtle Crossing, A Girl, a cat and some baskets.
Baskets, flying into LA, beach, Cole's, Mea Culpa by Linda Lack
Bike ride on the LA River, LACMA, sex pots of LA, Uncle Sammy's cactus garden.
New dance by Linda Lack, opening night fireworks at the Hollywood Bowl, Pershing Square, Arlo Guthrie at Hollywood Bowl, Clifford plays his sax, drive down Hwy 1.
Monterey Peninsula with grandkids. Monkey, seals, deer. Lots of generations dancing and playing together.
South Central Farm, West Fork San Gabriel River, "Lost in Yonkers," baskets and rope, new bamboo.
Baskets, Fish Canyon Falls
Baskets, rope, Cliff's birthday party, Sarina's desert research, downtown LA, Pacific Design Center, Nomadic Museum, creationist dinosaurs
March 2006
- Road trip to Salem, Oregon
San Francisco, Covelo, Salem, Horseshoe Falls, American River
Rope, palms, Naples marina, Steve's book signing, Siqueros tribute mural
February 2006
- LA and environs
Rope, chocolate, cats
January 2006 - LA and environs
Copy of Diego Rivera mural in Azuza
Shot Tower, Ft. McHenry, Fells Point, Maryland Museum of African American Culture and History
Visit from Xochi, trip to Mojave Desert
Ranch House Inn, dressed up date trees, Joshua trees, Kelso Station.
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Photos and text by Peter Rashkin
August
2006 - LA and environs 
August
2006 - LA and environs 
July
2006 - LA and environs 
July
2006 - LA and environs 
June
2006 - LA and environs 
June 2006 - Road trip 
May 2006
- LA and environs 
May 2006
- LA and environs 
April 2006
- LA and environs 
March 2006
- LA and environs 
December 2005 - Baltimore