Congratulations to my pals Adam and Sue on their nuptials yesterday atop Mount Philo. Holy moly what an awesome wedding. And I had the privilege of photographing the festivities. Many happy years to you two. UPDATE: All the pics on Flickr.
The write-up on the back of the edition of An Obedient Father that I read describes Sharma’s protagonist as a bit of a Dostoevskyian anti-hero. This makes sense: Sharma gives us a corrupt, alcoholic, child-molesting bureaucrat as the vehicle through which most of the story is told. And–call me old fashioned–this makes the story just […]
White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism at washingtonpost.com — this not totally surprising but it is disappointing because we need Jones' message (re marrying our environmental and economic needs) (tagged: politics news environment ) OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard How to install Java 1.4 and/or 1.5 if needed. (tagged: java […]
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is here, and that’s plenty exciting. All the refinements–in the UI and under the good–are getting their due play 1. One of those refinements: all of Java’s roads lead to 64-bit Java SE 6 2. If you’re not panicking (or at least a little alarmed) then don’t bother reading onward. […]
Enjoy. It’s getting quite a bit of action on Flickr right now.
all-time best cookbooks the “Brooklynhenge” article Deadwood motherhood “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, […]
When I read Angela Carter, I imagine her as the literary grandmother to someone like Kelly Link 1. There’s an eccentric tone of fantasy, an unabashed outlandishness and roguish word-play; a challenge runs through the narrative as a thread, sometimes cleverly concealed at the seams and sometimes out in front like so much gaudy embroidery. […]