On a Lighter Note
A woman in her twenties with a terrific, full-bodied Afro boards, all smiles and legs. It's nighttime on Capitol Hill during Pride week. The...
Josh
Josh is in his late teens, African-American and something else, tall but not too tall. In our youth we sometimes oscillate between dialects, particularly...
Symphony No. 2 in Perfect Grammar
Not all of the conversations I have on the bus are the gleeful bastardizations of syntax which I often record– and which are no...
No Longer in the Jungle
This guy stumbles on like a rock tumbling through an unstoppable river. An imposing physical presence. We're somewhere at the bottom of Rainier Valley....
I Don’t Know What a Trolley is, Part I
We're sitting at Third and Seneca northbound on the 3, a trolley bus. The passenger in front asks me what my favorite routes are.
"I...
How do You Change the World? Thoughts on Violence
Rainier and Henderson, the bottom of the Valley, deep in the living night. We're in the nerve center for gun crimes and drug distribution–...
Trying to Touch Something
Nathan Vass is a photographer/filmmaker who drives for Metro. Learn more at nathanvass.com.
There are times when I can't tell if it's the world opening...
The New Normal
This guy's smiling, let me tell you. I thought I smiled a lot. He walks up at Pine southbound, first stop on the 7,...