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Like a lot of people, I’m still recovering from SXSW, specifically the SXSW-crud.Putzing around on the internet in my feverish state, I found some of my pictures were on a site called the Flickr...
I spent a few days loitering on the fringes of the South By Southwest Interactive festival this past week. Every year the festival blows into town, bringing a cornucopia of digital goodies that promise...
Riga graffiti. It’s strange the impact that South By Southwest can have on our lives, in ways that sometimes go far beyond the music. View of Riga. In 2006, I did a story for...
As a few of you may have noticed, this web site has recently had a redesign. As part of this, I spent some time delving through my hard drive, looking for saved copies of...
Just days after I moved to Austin, I walked into the now-defunct Sound Exchange on the drag. It was so long ago, that Daniel Johnston hadn’t even painted what was to become the iconic...
Brokeback MacBook For the last couple of years, I’ve been living with a hairline crack on the right side of my 13-inch MacBook. This didn’t surprise me, because my MacBook lives a hard life:...
Once upon a time, I used to write a lot of poetry. So when I came across this passage by Richard Siken, I had to share it with both of you. I spent the...
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to flee a big snowstorm in Boston, and go spend some time in NYC. When I was there I stayed with my cousin, her baby...
Oh look, someone used one of my pictures in a blog post. It’s the little things that matter.But, let’s be honest. Not many people other than me would be taking pictures of a 7-11...
It’s snowing again in Boston. Again. I know, I know. It’s kind of what’s expected right now, what with it being the darkest part of the year. “January in the Northeast…would you expect anything...
