August 2008
10 posts
July 2008
7 posts
I heard this on NPR the other day whilst shopping...
Auto Parts Super Center
You photoblogger guys and gals — y’know, the ones that would be in the blogroll to the right, if it were working — may not know this, but when you post? It pops up on my computer within like five minutes. So when I saw Joe and Drew update in the same hour, I took it as a sign I should be putting something online.
These images come from a neighborhood that’s kind of defined by car...
Getting to the story
Note: This is a post that I wrote but forgot to put up. In hindsight I may never have finished it. It’s not worth finishing now; as we speak I’m wrapping up a long-form article on the Khasi story. I showed a draft to one of my professors this morning and ran a loose edit by Eli. That’ll all end up here soon. In the meantime, I have this half of a thought to put up.
JUNE 26,...
four from Benares
If you follow my Twitter feed you may have noticed me kvetching just a little bit about the city of Varanasi, also known as Benares. (just as an aside, most cities here seem to have at least two names. In some cases it’s one of the awkward legacies of the Raj [Calcutta/Kolkata, Bangalore/Bengaluru], but in the case of Varanasi [or, variously, Benares, Benaras or Kashi] it seems to have more...
