It was a slow Sunday. I woke up at ten, squinted at the window long enough to confirm suspicions of rain, and then pulled the covers back over my head until eleven. My phone started emitting plaintive low battery chirps at eleven thirty, and try as I might, there was no going back to sleep [...]
I spent this past weekend knee deep in glue, cardboard and colorful little bits of leather. By the end of three very full days (Friday afternoon got tossed in there as well) I had produced a diminutive looking little box for the three journals that followed me back from Africa. More than anything, this functioned [...]
My new, post-Africa self doesn’t like working this late. My new post-Africa self doesn’t like screens either. In fact, come to think of it, my new, post-Africa self has actually developed a serious aversion to work altogether. Surprise surprise. Thankfully, I’ve discovered another helpful voice to keep me from blinking too frequently. This is grade-A, [...]
At a certain point in anyone’s life, there comes a critical moment when cosmic forces, powers larger than you could possibly comprehend, conspire to serve up the shittiest possible combination events that can be crammed inside twenty-four hours. There’s no explanation really… presumably cosmic forces like that don’t have much to do in their spare [...]
I can’t say that I’ve ever been overly excited to get shots, but this morning was a hoot. After a very serious looking doctor gave me forty-five minutes of important advice about the drugs she was about to administer (I could tell it was important advice because she was very serious the entire time) I [...]
We thought it had been lost. All the backups had been destroyed…all the work files deleted (an obvious security measure) and the film itself….forgotten. The last remaining copy was found in the dark recesses of Antonio’s iPod; put there – I’m sure – as an afterthought. He’s back. All three of him. No only that… [...]
Generally, I try to stay away from the office at 2am on a Tuesday. The bloodshot stench of an honest-to-god workaholic doesn’t feel quite right coming from under my own skin until at least Thursday, if not the weekend. This time however, the God of Responsible Employment was out to even a pretty hefty score, [...]
Any music collection sounds a little stale after a while, and unless you’re around people who know what they’re talking about, finding new tunes can be something of a chore. There are a few friends who routinely point me in the direction of great material, but then… those people know what I like _now_. I [...]
It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon, and out my window you can see the urban grid of Siena dissolving in to the rural hills. The sun hits each brick structure individually, giving the landscape an orange glow; the horizon punctuated every so often by cypress trees and church steeples. Birds are silently catching thermals from a [...]