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From Wog Day to Blog Day
It’s 2009 and this is the blog of author Steven Zeeland. Yes, it has been two years since my final “Postcard from Zeeland.” Where was I? China? Nope. The two places I should have uploaded e-postcards from were my island on the border to Ontario, CA, and an island near Pensacola, FL. The one place I most certainly […]
20 years ago I used your soap
Twenty years ago the above photo was taken. Twenty years ago I began taping interviews with military men. Twenty years ago my oldest nephew was conceived; now he has a son! Traditionally, 20 years = the span of a generation — genealogically speaking. This summer I’ve researched my family tree. Passionately, even obsessively. As if […]
Postcard from Zeeland: Spring 2007
Hi – It’s taken far too long, I know. But: this past November US voters signalled “thumbs down” to George Orwell’s perpetual war. . . . Maybe these three (anonymous, internet-circulated) sleeping Marines will live long enough to vote in the next election? That would be my prayer. (Interesting, that these 21st century American men […]
Postcard : Autumn 2005 – Life During Wartime : Year Three
“Instructor gives conditioning exercises to aviation cadets at pre-flight school, Iowa City, Iowa.” September 1942; Iowa City, Iowa; photograph unattributed; 80-G-473132 Hi – Earlier this year BLUE magazine of Australia commissioned me to review a newly published book of old photos titled AT EASE. AT EASE sold extraordinarily well to men who (like me) derive […]
Postcard from Zeeland: October 2004
Barrack Bad Boys Not Gays in the Military
Hi – It’s a new year. I’m glad. So glad, in fact, that whenever I find myself writing out 2 0 0 4 — even on a utility bill — I feel a twinge of something resembling pleasure. Or at least relief: ’03 is over. With this postcard I want to wallow in a rare […]
Postcard from Zeeland: November 2001
“WHAT’S NEW?” “I’ve lived through worse times,” I told a friend last week. “But I was younger then.” FLASHBACK The second week of September 2001 marked the 10 year anniversary of my relationship with THE HAWORTH PRESS. TRAUMA Probably I don’t need to explain how it happened that celebration of this anniversary was preempted by […]
“Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln, Did You Enjoy the Play?”
No more editing another author’s books for me. My new role model is Carl van Vechten. Summer 2000 saw the publication of my photographs in the VILLAGE VOICE and HONCHO, which featured a 17-photo layout of mine in its July issue. I’m also quite proud of the photo that adorns Kerwin Kay’s Male Lust (despite […]
