Category: travel

• In Search of Babushka

  May 18

  Babushka’s Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin’s Wartime Camps is an eloquent travel memoir that also manages to do the heavy lifting required by great historical writing. Though German-born and… more ›

• Station to Station (or How Not to Make a Film)

  Jun 22

  Another film I saw at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Doug Aitken’s Station to Station. Billed as 61 one-minute films, this quasi-documentary of a 24-day, 4000-mile,… more ›

• All Time Top Visitors (Countries)

  May 7

  Thank you. Дякую. 谢谢。Thanks ever so. Спасибо. Danke. תודה./شكرا. Merci. Whatever Canadians say. شكرا. I’m not sure when Blogger started tracking these visits, but I’ve had this account for several years now, though not as long as… more ›

• Admissions

  Aug 26

  Don’t be shy about asking me about my work or what I do. I wrote a photo essay on the Berlin Wall based on my research there. I’m currently writing… more ›

• Phenomenon Worth Considering (And Guilty as Charged)

  Jul 16

  It is a phenomenon worth considering, this new generation of nihilist mystics living on Veterans’ Administration checks, Fulbright Fellowships, gifts from casual acquaintances, and occasional scraps from home. Reblogged from… more ›

• Times Roman

  Jul 11

  Below are some of my photos from a recent trip to Rome. This collection is of architectural ruins and art/historical objects that I found compelling. Colosseo I Colosseo II Bernini’s… more ›

• Giovanni’s Room

  Jun 30

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• Roman Holiday (In Ostia down by the formless sea.)

  Jun 21

  To prepare in advance for my time in Rome (at Italian cafes), I’ve spent the past several days reading and watching Pasolini and writing poems in honor of Pasolini: evoking/provoking/convoking… more ›

• Nothing Really Matters

  Jun 25

  Madonna’s “Nothing Really Matters” was on heavy rotation on British Airways on-flight music programming during the summer of 1998 while he enjoyed his summer break from teaching in Japan. He… more ›

• Koszmar

  May 31

  He had stumbled upon a dark continent slowly sinking into his unconsciousness. That strange land he called Insomnia where no stranger had ever stepped. Each familiar face beckoned to his;… more ›