A Video with Duke and Chuckie
Last time they were here, my Latvian houseguests made a video about Duke and Charlie. We lost Chuckie this past August (at the age of 10), and we lost Duke this week (he was...
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FOOD: New England Seafood
I spent last week seeing the sights of New England with my family. Being that it’s my family, it included a lot of stops for noshing. (And a few stops for shopping.) Pictured on...
Madness at the Movies
Recently, I’ve watched both the French film Seraphine (2008) and the most recent cinematic version of Jane Eyre. The representation of madness in these films couldn’t be much different. In Seraphine–based on the real...
Yankeeland: Tips for the Southerner
For the last week, I’ve been in Yankeeland with my family.I’ve hung out with my extended family in a grouping that’s too complex to try and detail to anyone who doesn’t already know them....
Hanging Out With Keith Richards…the Don Draper of Rock ‘n’ Roll
While I was sick with post SXSW-crud, I spent a lot of the time in my cough-medicine haze sucking down the 547 pages of Keith Richards very readable autobiography, Life. Nearly every publication on...
Thoughts on the Royal Wedding…
Love is a very strange thing. Getting up insanely early this morning to watch the Royal Wedding in my PJ’s, I couldn’t help thinking about all the ways that we structure and regulate love...
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!...
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...
