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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I have the opportunity to visit the old European city of Stockholm later this month for an interesting workshop (more on this later) and I’ve managed to build in a few extra days to play. Any suggestions on things to see?
It was a sunny Sunday afternoon in August, 1990, that Lissa and I saw our first baseball game in Albuquerque. We had flown in on an apartment-hunting trip before our move, and once we had things nailed down, we headed out to the ballpark to catch a game. We both grew up in LA, as …
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I was happy to learn that, now that Albuquerque’s AAA ballclub is the Dodger’s, we’ll get Vin Scully on local radio. Here’s a bit of his poetry: One and 1 to Harvey Kuenn. Now he’s ready: fastball, high, ball 2. You can’t blame a man for pushing just a little bit now. Sandy backs off, …