I’ve been slowly adding to the photoblog, so if you have not been over there in a while, stop by and check it out. I also just created an account on photoblogs.org, and added the photoblog there; I got one really kind comment almost immediately. This might just be the type of encouragement I need …
Monthly Archives: February 2005
Late night at the Amphora
I’m just back from meeting up with my friend Jen for a quick cup of coffee. In a humorous replay of our college selves of fifteen years ago, we bummed off to the Amphora a few blocks from her parents place in Vienna, Va. True to form, we had a little hummus, a little coffee …
Àpropos de cinéma
Having read High Fidelity a couple months ago, I became interested in top 5 lists, and created the following list of my favorite movies: 12 Angry Men (the best courtroom drama movie that manages to hardly ever enter the courtroom) Heathers (nod to the 80’s films from my formative teen years, besides I need a …
Back home
I’m back home after a week in New Orleans. Thursday I was at Xavier to do a little recruiting for the University of Maryland graduate school, the actual reason for the trip to New Orleans in the first place. We only met with 15 undergraduates, and most of them were not eligible for the summer …
Genius in silver
You find out the oddest things on the web; it works out that the largest collection of pictures of one of my favorite photographers (Henri Cartier-Bresson) is in New Orleans. A Gallery for Fine Photography in the French Quarter is a small gallery that hosts in impressive collection of photos from two of the world’s …
When did I become a romance councilor?
I’ve spent the last four days trying to convince someone that their potential May-December romance with an eighteen-year-old would be a bad idea. The fundamental problem isn’t about age or even about life experience — it is really about the people involved. The guy spent the last 4 days telling me all about all the …