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8/4/2013

A recently freed man from the county jail, sitting in the back on a cloudy day. Lines on his skin, framing a face that's been through who knows what.

"I haven't ridden the bus in a long time. Forgot how good it feels," he muses to the person next to him- maybe a best friend, maybe nobody.

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Nathan

You can find me on the one and only: the Great 7/49, in the evenings.

What is this blog? Check out the explanatory first post, or read the 2017 front-page Seattle Times writeup here!

Here's a one-page crash course with links and highlights: Nathan Vass 101

For New Bus Drivers: Thoughts, Tips, and Stories

Interviews:
-NPR: KUOW's Ross Reynolds interviews Nathan (audio)
-Paul Constant on Nathan Vass, the Blogging Bus Driver
-NPR:KNKX's Gabriel Spitzer interviews Nathan (audio)
-NPR: KPLU's Martha Kang interviews Nathan Vass here.
-Podcast: Bare Naked Bravery Interviews Nathan Vass (audio)
-Podcast: Scott Bonjukian
interviews Nathan at The NW Urbanist (audio)
-20 Questions (Actually, 33): Bill Pennington on Nathan Vass
-Seattle Shines' Holli Margelli interviews Nathan
-Erica Weiland.com interviews Nathan

Popular posts:

Only have time for one story? Try these.
-The Day The Earth Stood Still
-Fecal and Philosophical Matters
-Le Park de Cal Anderson
-Black Lives
-Fighters and Lovers, In and Out of Time
-Andy After Death
-Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Great & Terrible 358
-I've Been Sainted
-I'M A LIGHT-SKINNED BLACK WOMAN!

Personal:
-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
-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
-...And a Splendid New Year!
-Nathan Converses With His Colleagues: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Political:
-The Day the Music Died
-Understanding Love & Hate During Trump Nation
-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 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
-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:
-The Great and Terrible Fifth & Jackson: An Ethnography
-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"
-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

Bus Tech Talk!
-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
-A Love Letter for My Colleagues: Exercises and Stretches for Operators
-What I've Learned From Other Bus Drivers
-Verbal

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