The View From Nathan's Bus

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10/1/2013

A street guy in a weathered baseball cap and big black jacket comes up from the back.

"Listen, I want you to have this," he says.
"Sure, yeah. Let's see, what do we have here..."

He hands me a Criminal History report. The paperwork confirms that he has no history of criminal conviction, in keeping with the Child/Adult Abuse Information Act. Based "on the descriptors provided," in fact, he has no record of child abuse whatsoever.

"Shoot," I say. "This looks real great."
"Thanks."
"Yeah, this is awesome. It's for me to keep?"
"Yeah, absolutely."
"I'm into it. Thanks!"

Oh, it's great to be back!

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Nathan

-You can find me on the Great 7/49, in the evenings.

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-One Last Story (Video)
-Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Great & Terrible 358
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-The Final Flurry: Index
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Personal:
-With What Time We Have
-My Seattle
-On Second Acts
-Yves Klein, Color of the Heavens
-Popular Posts from 2018, with Commentary
-Nathan Vass, 2019 Washington State Book Award Finalist
-Nathan on the Elliott Bay event: Parts I, II, and III
-Seattle Magazine / Third & Cherry
-Pretty Sure I Don't Deserve This
-How I Live Now
-Escaping the Overlords: Nathan on Comcast
-I Am Now Ten Years Old
-Confession
-Flowers in a Pool of Blood: Thoughts From an American in Paris
-Paris, One Year Later: A Personal Perspective
-The Transgender Ban
-Nathan on the Las Vegas shootings: On Terror & Other Things
-The Birthday That Almost Never Happened
-Nathan Takes a Day Off:
Part 1 (See Nathan Run);
Part 2 (Nathan Gets Excited);
Part 3 (Nathan Sounds Like Morgan Freeman)
-Rad(iation) City
-La La Land & What Los Angeles Means
-Reparations
-Names Nathan gets called! A list in three parts: 1, 2, 3
-Where and How it All Began
-How I Write the Posts, and Why
-Chaleur Humaine
-A Story
-What Not to Say
-In Praise of Silver Hair
-You're Been a Good Friend of Mine
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-Nathan Converses With His Colleagues: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8... and 65

Political:
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-The Great Male Detoxification Project
-The Day the Music Died
-Kindness In the Days of After
-Understanding Love & Hate During Trump Nation
-More than Health, More than Money
-Seattle, Center of the Modern Universe
-What We Did, Today
-This Story Has Nothing to do With Donald Trump
-Don't Be Scared of My Friends, Part I
-Don't Be Scared of My Friends, Part II
-The Music Isn't Dead (Yet)
-Nathan Actually Talks Politics, Pt III: Keeping the Music Alive
-Pulling Our Weight, Part II: Addressing the Homeless Laziness Question
-Getting Some Diversity Off My Chest
-The Veterans
-Islamofriendia
-Be at Peace, Mr. Garner. We Will Love the World For You
-The Streets Regard Ferguson
-How do You Change the World? Thoughts on Violence
-Cowboys of the New Age: Status & Respect in the American Ghetto
-A Boy Named Hamza: Thoughts on Hate in Three Parts
-It Used to Sound Like This

On film & art:
-Nathan's Films of 2019: Top 2 Plus 23 Runners Up (photos, trailers, analysis & more)
-Once Upon a Time... in Dreams: On Tarantino, Violence, and Transcendence
-On Finishing Men I Trust
-The Lie & How to See It: On Hate, Despair & Hope in Contemporary Film
-Notre Thoughts
-Addressing Despair: Nathan on First Reformed
-How Evergreen Became Irrelevant
-October 2018 show breakdown: all the deets
-On Color Darkrooms
-The Non-Bailers: Thank You to the Cast & Crew of Men I Trust, Pt I
-People I Trust: Thanks to My Cast and Crew, Pt 2
-Nathan's Overlooked Films of 2016: Trailers, photos, analyses
-A Bus Driver Reviews the New Bus Driver Movie!
-My Films
-Song to Song and Malick: The Cutting Edge
-Nathan on Wet Lab Prints
-Kehinde Wiley: The Morning After
-Nathan the Friendly Hermit, Part I: Nathan Gets Pasty
-Nathan the Friendly Hermit, Part II: Pastier and Pastier
-Birdman, (a) Film of the Decade
-Gone Girl: Fidelity & Subjectivity
-On Gravity and Identity
-Primary Colors with Music: Andrea Arnold's American Honey
-Sicario: Why Visuals Matter
-The Martian: On Intelligence in Pop Culture
-About Elly
-Best films of 2015: Trailers, photos, analyses
-Selected writings on films released in 2014, 2013, and 2012.

On the Street:
-Ah, Volume
-Eulogy for the Damned
-King Travis
-The Great and Terrible Fifth & Jackson: An Ethnography
The Veterinarian: A Story on Grief in 4 Parts
-The Glow
-Decent Street: Kendrick, Gender, Lingo, & the Good Man Problem
-The Shake'N'Bake: Parts 1, 2, & 3
-I've Been Sainted
-The Hug
-Dominique The Mystique
-Deserve, the Concept and the Song
-Gangsta Phone Strategy, Deep Breaths & Kindness Rising
-Love, Deeply
-It's Never Over Til It's Over
-"I Love Everybody!"
-The Joy of Bus Driving
-The Knife's Edge Dance
-The Soulful Stench
-"Everybody Need to Quit Acting Hard and S**t"
-The Mother's Day Apocalypse
-Ode to Aurora
-Ode to the 358
-Ode to the 7 (Cascade of a Thousand Colors)
-"I BET YOU APPROVE UH GAY MARRIAGE"
-The Question
-By Himself
-Appreciation
-Banter in the Nighttime
-The Nathan Train
-The Benevolent Roar
-Truthfulness, the Final Currency
-Love is in the Air
-Respect, Currency of the Street
-Thought I Heard Something
-Things I've Learned From the 358
-Surfing the Sparkling Wave
-Saddest Music in the World
-Rainier & Henderson, Baby!
-Sheeeeeeyyiitt: Strategies for Day or Night
-The Circle of Spelling and Life
-AngryNice I (Love Through Frustration)
AngryNice II: Tran Chimes In
AngryNice III (We've All Felt It)
-Love (Hurting From a Lack Thereof)
-Hip to be Joyful
-Future, Present, Past
-Changing Awful
-Harsh
-The Nameless Heroes
-The Break-Up
-Tropic Of
-Figuring it All Out in the Bullpen
-First Day of School
-Thoughts of Ourselves
-Leaving Small Talk Behind
-India
-She Did It On a Monday
-One Day, My Friend
-I Am Now Two Years Old
-The Harder Thing
-Poker Face Practice
-The Great Freeze

For Bus Drivers!
-The Swagger I Love: Thoughts on My Fellow Operators
-A Love Letter for My Colleagues: Exercises and Stretches for Operators
-What I've Learned From Other Bus Drivers
-Rest in Peace, Breda Monster
-I Don't Know What a Trolley is, Part I
-I Don't Know What a Trolley is, Part II
-Verbal
-Bus Driver Appreciation Day: Coronavirus Style

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