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Their Old House Where I Now Live
I bought a new house in Oct. 2021 after moving back to Buffalo where I was born and raised before leaving after college in 1989. It’s a cool house…
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'Stop Talking About Yourself, It's Unbecoming'
One of the terribly uncomfortable aspects, at least for me, of working in any sort of creative art — writing, photography, music, etc. — is the need to…
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J. Matthew Smith
The Man in the Alleyway
As I walk to my office in the morning, I sometimes pass by this young homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk under cover of the Alleyway Theater between…
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J. Matthew Smith
No Idea What to Headline This Piece, So I'm Just Gonna Call It 'Photography'
Over the last week, I shot more than 1,000 frames of live music for an online music publication I started here in Buffalo. (1120press.com) Check some of…
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J. Matthew Smith
The Rich, the Poor, the Stupid
I read that a billionaire died the other day when he smashed the racecar he was driving into a wall on his birthday. His death came just a few days…
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J. Matthew Smith
A Guy in the Desert Walking a Camel
“And anyways I'd rather listen to Coltrane Than go through all that shit again There's something about an afternoon spent doing nothing Just listening…
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A Dream in Retrograde
Sometimes it feels like nighttime lasts forever and though you are sleeping soundly you repeatedly awake, realizing you’ve been dreaming the same dream…
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J. Matthew Smith
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