Oh look, more pictures on the Internets!
When I told my sweetie that someone else was using some of my pictures to illustrate an article on Latvia, he quipped that it must be the cousin of one of my friends there!...
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I Haven’t Been to England Since Clinton was President.
A note to my regular readers: the following blog post is my entry in the Blog Away contest. With luck, I’ll be blogging about the Royal Wedding firsthand, not from what I see on the telly:
I haven’t been to England since Clinton was in office, and I realize that this is a very long time to avoid visiting a country where they nearly speak the same language. The upcoming Royal Wedding has made me realize that I might have missed a few things in England.
At SXSW, love of Duran Duran was still going strong
When I was in junior high school, I could have told you anything about the band Duran Duran. With crucial information gleaned from Tiger Beat and Rolling Stone, I could have explained how the...
Still recovering from SXSW…but my pictures are busy on the Internet!
Like a lot of people, I’m still recovering from SXSW, specifically the SXSW-crud.Putzing around on the internet in my feverish state, I found some of my pictures were on a site called the Flickr...
Dig those crazy grooves, daddy-o
I spent a few days loitering on the fringes of the South By Southwest Interactive festival this past week. Every year the festival blows into town, bringing a cornucopia of digital goodies that promise...
Latvia: The Land of 24 Hour Party People…that I met at SXSW.
Riga graffiti. It’s strange the impact that South By Southwest can have on our lives, in ways that sometimes go far beyond the music. View of Riga. In 2006, I did a story for...
Vintage Treasures From Deep Inside My Brain.
As a few of you may have noticed, this web site has recently had a redesign. As part of this, I spent some time delving through my hard drive, looking for saved copies of...
Time to Return to the Well of Elvis Costello-ness.
Just days after I moved to Austin, I walked into the now-defunct Sound Exchange on the drag. It was so long ago, that Daniel Johnston hadn’t even painted what was to become the iconic...
Apple Fixed My Three Year-Old Laptop For FREE!
Brokeback MacBook For the last couple of years, I’ve been living with a hairline crack on the right side of my 13-inch MacBook. This didn’t surprise me, because my MacBook lives a hard life:...
Valentine’s Day= Stolen Poetry
Once upon a time, I used to write a lot of poetry. So when I came across this passage by Richard Siken, I had to share it with both of you. I spent the...
