Category: history

• Project Blog It: Red

  Dec 23

  Better red than dead. We’ve been watching the film version of Angels in America slowly over the past few weeks after recording it off Logo. It’s so dense, tightly woven,… more ›

• Sick Day

  Nov 19

  This is the first real sick day I’ve taken in months if not years. Whatever illness I’ve been suffering through over the past several weeks finally got the upper hand… more ›

• Project Blog It: September

  Sep 19

  What do we even mean by the term September? The seventh month? Unless I’m counting on my fingers incorrectly, this is the ninth month. And what about that so-old-as-to-not-even-be-archaic suffix… more ›

• On this day…

  Jul 11

  … twenty-nine years ago, Skylab–the US’s first space station–began its own crash course across the Australian desert. more ›

• Nuevo y nueve

  Jul 3

  So, nine years. This blog began while I was living in Japan as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family around the globe. It was originally called… more ›

• Istanbul 05: The Church

  Jun 17

  Procopius said is best: So the church has become a spectacle of marvelous beauty, overwhelming to those who see it, but to those who know it by hearsay altogether incredible.… more ›

• Tiananmen

  Jun 4

  I was in Beijing just a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was still closed to the public for “renovation,” in anticipation of protests… more ›

• Istanbul 03: History is a Pile of Debris

  May 31

  Saturday, May 17, 2008, Turkoman Hotel, Istanbul Last night we went on the obligatory people-watching pilgrimage to Taksim in what used to be the Genoese colony of Pera that is… more ›

• Istanbul 02: Travel Journal Except

  May 29

  Friday, May 16, 2008, Hotel Turkoman, Istanbul After what seems and certainly feels like two lost days of traveling across continents and time zones, the beginnings of my third day… more ›

• Istanbul 01: Call to Prayer

  May 28

  Five times a day the call issues forth from the amplified speakers mounted atop the minarets. These days, the muezzin need not bother climbing the steps up the tower. Because… more ›