Abbott or Hobbit?
Posted on July 26, 2007 - Filed Under Taiwan, Photography, Misc. | Leave a Comment
I have toured most of the major cathedrals of Europe, slogged up the narrow stairs of many a major-Duomo, seen enough of the glory of God and the riches of Popes to tempt me to a career change, but what would Jesus think about this place? I am in Taipei, Taiwan to teach a seminar […]
Read More..>>American Cheese
Posted on July 13, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Culture, Food & Wine, Misc. | Leave a Comment
Maybe it reveals me as the pious food snob that I am, but today, in a Continental jet wafting over Winnemucca I stare at a sealed, steamed-up baggie labeled “Pierre Creations: Charbroiled Beef With American Cheese” wondering just what it would taste like. First, I was stunned to get a meal on a plane, the […]
Read More..>>Detroit: A Reluctant Renaissance
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under Detroit, Photography, Misc. | Leave a Comment
“Hey dear…where shall we go on vacation?”
“Honeybun, how about Detroit?”
It is not exactly my typical project, but I am working under a grant on a Ken Burns-style documentary on how homeless people, addicts and others who slipped through the cracks, have taken back their lives. What better place to do this than Detroit, which itself […]
NanoBeat: What Would Kerouac Think?
Posted on June 19, 2007 - Filed Under California, Culture, Tech & Science, Video, Misc. | Leave a Comment
When I was much younger than now, my image of a beatnik was the bongo-playing Maynard G. Krebs, a 1950s TV sitcom character who went apoplectic at the mere utterance of the word “work.” To my parents, beatniks were lazy, laughable bums who didn’t understand that life was all about battling crabgrass […]
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Shopping for Valentines: The Kama Sutra, One Bite at a Time
Posted on February 14, 2007 - Filed Under France, Holiday, Food & Wine, Misc. | Leave a Comment
It is a mashup of Animal Crackers, Cracker Jacks, Willie Wonka and, uh, sex.
What ever happened to the idea of fun candy? As a kid I used to sit around with my pals biting the heads off of giraffes and the butts off hippos, giggling self-indulgently at my cleverness. Likewise with Cracker Jacks: one […]
