Life of Wry

In the way back of my long past career, I knew a guy, John Higgins, who I considered one of the visionary thinkers in our field. He was a midwest practitioner who went on to become a professor in the rhetoric department of University of San Francisco, specializing in media studies, alternative and community media, public access media, and storytelling.. and is also a puppeteer (which I did not know until I read his bio just now).

Turns out, we also have mutual friends in Davis, unrelated to our mutual careers. So.. today, John and his wife MJ were visiting Steve and Megan (leaders in Indivisible Yolo and part of my huge political tribe!). We all met at Farmers Market and, hoo boy, did John and I go down the access rabbit hole.

Here we all are.. John, MJ, me, Megan, and Steve in back.

John and I were in shop talk heaven (was unaware of any picture taking going on.. not even sure who took this)… It was super fun to catch up and reminisce about our field, the incredible changes in technology (internet for starters), and all kinds of professional gossipy stuff.

(Alternative media people dress alike, is the message here.)

I like this shot of Steve and me (we took a moment to discuss an upcoming resistance event… ).