Amy Alkon’s comments on the riots in France are as good as any I’ve read elsewhere. Antoine’s family there seems pretty unaffected by it all, to the point of not mentioning it at all in phone conversations.
Antoine’s take? The original rioting was just jerks being pissed off and seeing an opportunity to loot, and […]
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I actually bought the latest issue of Vanity Fair, for the first time in something like ten years. After spending two minutes trying to read all the good parts as I stood in WH Smith’s, it struck me that perhaps this issue was actually worth paying for. So I did.
And…wow. There is some serious […]
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I considered writing about why I am not writing here so much lately. Then I decided against it, telling myself that nobody cares (people write me coaxing emails to be charitable), I reveal too much here already (morning-after cringes brought on by self-revelation know no match), and there’s no way of putting it into words […]
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I just revisited my moblog for the first time in more than two months, and uploaded tons of photos. Some highlights:
How John Galliano improved my morning commute
How living on the other side of Regents Park from my office improved my evening commute
The best photograph I took in Slovakia
Don’t mess with the Bratislava Massive, aight?
I […]
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