Big Toe in Chinatown Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Big Toe met up with us while we were in San Francisco. Before he came to Inkstain, he worked for some time for a jade importer in Chinatown, and he spent a few hours showing me around and introducing me to some of his old friends. The …
Thanks to Luis ((Luis Villa)) and some guy named Simon ((Simon Elvery)), Inkstain is now footnote-enabled. Yay Simon!
Fort Point Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Postmodernism is a notoriously tricky thing to define. Standing on Fort Point, poking out into the Golden Gate, looking for the place where Kim Novak jumped into the water in Vertigo, trying to commit suicide (Or was she?), only to have Jimmy Stewart fish her out, is a clear …
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Crosstown TrafficOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I had a friend years ago in California, Victor, who was fun to talk to because he was so bafflingly smart. Among his many interests (he also imagined the Internet before there was one) was the way we map our personal geographies of the world around us. I was thinking …
Los Angeles FireOriginally uploaded by Chucks Chicken. When I was a kid, the mountain behind my Southern California home burned. We could see the fire coming many miles and hours away, creeping west across the front face of the San Gabriels. By midday, they sent us home from school, and I vividly remember (I must …
Folks claiming to be Alan Johnston’s kidnappers have delivered a tape to al-Jazeera outlining their demands: The tape includes a demand for the release of Muslim prisoners in British jails, and readings from the Koran.
No Plagues Today Originally uploaded by Malcolm Tredinnick. Malcolm caught this. Click through if you can’t read the fine print.
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Members of the European Parliament have been told Alan Johnston is alive: Members of the European Parliament have been told by Palestinian leaders that the kidnapped BBC correspondent, Alan Johnston, is alive. A 12-member delegation of MEPs were given the assurances in a meeting with Palestinian Deputy PM Azzam al-Ahmad in the West Bank city …
Big Toe Artist Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. In addition to his scientific background, Big Toe spent two semesters studying art at the Sorbonne, during which time he spent a good deal of time at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, where several of Van Gogh’s self-portraits clearly influenced his current work. Today was his day off, …