The Ghost Mall Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Wandering on my bike Thursday morning, I ended up at “the ghost mall,” the old Winrock Center a few miles from my house. It’s one of those enclosed shopping malls circa the ’60s, when air conditioning and indoor shopping was all the rage. It’s now largely empty, discarded …
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Friday bird blogging: in which I visit the sewage treatment plant and see nature. (Trying to lighten up the wonkery at the work blog.) Albuquerque’s water future: in which I invoke Zetland’s argument regarding the western approach to water planning, as it applies to Albuquerque’s mayoral politics.
9:01 am: Watching roadrunner in the backyard. Unsuspecting sparrow flies up. Snap. Sparrow dead, spectacle of roadrunner breakfast kinda gross. 9:05 am: Two house finches and a white-winged dove sit on power line, watching roadrunner eat sparrow. Are they, in fact, “watching”? Do they care? 9:09 am: Roadrunner sitting on a stump, wiping off his …
Horses Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Hi Mom (and everyone else) – Walking down the Stromkajen today, across the water from the Royal Palace, I saw this squadron of the king’s guards riding from the palace into town. A site to behold – elegant horses, regal martial attire, really quite lovely. To the right of where …
Back in Stockholm after a few days in the country in pretty intensive discussions with journalist colleagues. More on that later once I’ve had time to digest, but in the meantime some quick thoughts on Baltic cooperation.
Stockholm Metro Art Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Stockholm’s subway system is geologic, carved out of solid bedrock, with the rock left showing many places. This is from a little alcove in the entrance to the Kungsträdgården metro station in downtown Stockholm. Sorry for the poor lighting, but it’s the best I could do with the …
Stockholm Chess Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Thanks to the Inkstain posse for the suggestions for my Stockholm vacation itinerary. In particular Verbal and Dano – it had been rainy since I got to Stockholm (I didn’t mind) but the sun came out this afternoon, as did these two gentlemen in Kungstragaarden for a came of …
Stockholm bike Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Stockholm’s bicycling zeitgeist is extraordinarily pragmatic. Almost no spandex. Almost no fixies. Just a lot of bikes like this, with baskets and fenders and locks. Some really nice locks. The people riding the bikes look far more pragmatic, too, like a cross section of the population. Good bike lanes …
Kafkaesque Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. When I was a senior in high school, some friends and I had a campus club that, among other wholesome activities, held a Franz Kafka Lookalike contest. I won, though the results were always a bit suspect. (We had no picture of Kafka, and thus had no idea what he …
Bryan Patterson, whose struggle to recover from brain injury my colleague Jim Belshaw chronicled in the Albuquerque Journal, graduated from UNM today with a masters degree in public health, and Jim was there to enjoy the moment: I had an aisle seat and I could see him when he made the turn into the aisle. …
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