Yesterday was Bloomsday, or the 106th anniversary of the day on which the events of Ulysses, James Joyce’s seminal piece of literature, took place. The holiday has since become a celebration of all things Joyce, particularly in Dublin, where the 1922 novel was set. Frankie and I just missed Bloomsday when we were in Dublin [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Random Musings’
March 18, 2010
The Only Game in Town
An item posted today on a blog for Philadelphia Magazine tells the story of Dan Robrish, a former AP reporter in Philly who is now living a sort-of superhero life in rural Pennsylvania. He quit his beat after 12 years and moved to quaint Elizabethtown, PA, where the corporate-owned daily newspaper had gone belly-up a [...]
March 17, 2010
Rocky & Valentino
In honor of St. Patrick’s day today, I decided to post this picture of Valentino, a man we met outside the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. He was asking for spare change– but the change wasn’t for him; it was for his horse Rocky, who was badly in need of a change of shoes. We obliged [...]
March 8, 2010
An explanation
Pray for my computer. On Wednesday of last week, my laptop contracted a virus that all but crippled it, nearly wiping out everything I had stored on the machine since last May– thousands of job specific photos, videos, story notes and documents. I’ve been playing back-and-forth with Staples, which is supposedly repairing the damage and [...]
February 20, 2010
The Third Floor
We ventured to the abandoned third floor of my building again today. The sun poured in through the big windows facing South street, into the cavernous room covered in pigeon feathers and dust. I took this of Eric as he was looking out of a window toward the iconic Buckley Bros. grain elevators. View it on [...]
February 17, 2010
In a picture: the state of the news industry
I love how this one picture, taken somewhere in Washington, D.C., completely sums up all of the problems facing the news industry in America. People want content, but they’re not sure they want to pay for it. In its defense, the Express is supposedly a very good alternative paper in the D.C. metro area, so [...]
February 16, 2010
Fruit of the Gods
If ever my plans of writing and making photographs for a living don’t pan out, I’m taking a cue from Jason Mraz and starting an avacado farm in California. Watch me.
February 12, 2010
The Sound of Settling
It’s been about a week now since Frankie and I finished moving all of our things into the new place. We’ve slowly started hanging pictures, organizing books, placing rugs, stocking cabinets, et cetera, and it’s beginning to have that cozy, lived-in feel that makes apartments great. Already, the downtown location has been perfect in dealing [...]
February 3, 2010
Lens repair, Lost and the apartment transition
The replacement part I ordered last week for my broken 18-55mm kit lens came in the mail last night, and I spent the better part of an hour fiddling with microscopic screws and a toothpick screw driver putting it all back together. Turns out, I wasn’t born with nimble hands. I dropped one of the [...]
January 27, 2010
Bad Luck or the Day I Almost Cried
By most accounts, today was a good day. Work was long but productive. I tied up some loose ends in regards to a new downtown apartment, where Frankie and I will begin moving in this week. On the way home, I had time to shoot some photos of the sun as it set and cast [...]
