July 4, 2026
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Noise Pollution
A four-clip incident on the porch, mid-day on the **Fourth of July**. A lawn crew is at work at the neighboring house, running a backpack leaf blower on a federal holiday — meaning someone is paying holiday-overtime wages to interrupt a residential block on a day off. David starts filming from the porch, audibly narrating the who-pays-holiday-pay-for-this question. The tell arrives quickly: **the woman on the crew aims her blower at him** as a response, and she is the same worker who came onto his porch weeks ago with the blower, a confrontation that seeded blownaway.org. Her partner comes over and starts filming David. The threat to call the police lands from their side; David welcomes it — *give it to the police, call the police, tell them I was annoyed.* Four clips: (1) the initial complaint and the aimed-blower response; (2) the code-switch as he asserts residency, *yo vivo aquí, me entiende;* (3) the three-minute standoff with the partner, the mutual filming, the police threat, and the full backstory the encounter is a repeat of; and **(4) the kicker** — after the crew leaves, David finds *a bag of dog shit on my front porch* and puts the question plainly: *do you think that could have been the lawn people that I just was talking to?*
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Move, Bitch. Get Out the Way.
A short morning-walk clip — the day after Sidewalk Encounter. A man walking his dog off-leash on the sidewalk. David sees the man from hundreds of feet away. The man sees David. The dog is on David's side of the sidewalk; the man makes no move to correct. David keeps to his side, visible on camera. Neither yields. **Contact** — David's leg into the dog's head, a bone-on-bone sound as the jaws take the shock. David isn't seething; he's documenting. His own read is placed in front, generous: *probably the man hadn't had his coffee yet.* But the rhetorical questions land right after: *am I supposed to get out of the way of his unleashed animal? Does the dog have rights to the sidewalk that supersede mine?* Title is a callback to the Move Bitch (1973) entry from the music-that-helps series — the register wants the same forward-force song this morning.
