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- Inflation - Thanksgiving 2008
- November 26, 2008
- Eavesdropping at the balloon inflation the night before Thanksgiving confirms what most children know: parents don't listen.
- Mumbai terrorist attacks
- November 26, 2008
- The news from Mumbai is ugly, but it may get worse still if the attacks trigger inter-ethnic violence.
- Democracy 2K8
- November 4, 2008
- Democracy is coming to the USA; in bite-sized pieces, once every four years.
- November again
- November 2, 2008
- It's November. Do you know where your novel is? More to the point, do I?
- What's in a name?
- October 25, 2008
- Your neighborhood bar is the place where people know your name; if we could just get them to remember the bar's name as well, we'd be onto something.
- 2008 Vendy Awards
- October 18, 2008
- Pictures from the 2008 Vendy Awards, a street food event organized by the Streetvendor Project of the Urban Justice Center.
- Lost in translation
- October 17, 2008
- It turns out that my neighbors don't do irony.
- Notting Hill '08
- August 29, 2008
- Some photographs and observations from London's Notting Hill Carnival.
- Useful number
- August 21, 2008
- Brian Conley and other citizen journalists are being held in Beijing: here's a number that you can call.
- Detained in Beijing
- August 20, 2008
- My friend Brian Conley from Alive in Baghdad has been detained in Beijing.
- Study war no more
- April 25, 2008
- Internet startups blip.tv and Pando face off on the paintball field, and everyone gets covered in yellow paint
- Indglish
- January 7, 2008
- English as she is spoke and written, Indian-style
- Sacred cows
- January 6, 2008
- India's roads have everything. Really everything.
- "Alive in Baghdad" reporter killed
- December 15, 2007
- Ali Shafeya, a journalist working with my friend Brian, has been killed in his home by the Iraqi National Guard.
- Picture of an underachiever
- November 14, 2007
- It's November again, and that means it's novel-writing time.
- The Gray Plague
- October 8, 2007
- The police in Dushanbe are everywhere ... and they have too much time on their hands.
- Bibi Fatima
- October 3, 2007
- A visit to the hot springs of the Wakhan Valley.
- Photo Exhibition
- September 20, 2007
- Some photographs taken during a recent photography course.
- San Gennaro
- September 16, 2007
- The Feast of San Gennaro comes to Little Italy.
- Dance Parade 2007
- May 19, 2007
- Dancers vote with their feet (hips, hands and other body parts) to protest New York's archaic cabaret laws.
- Eclipse
- March 3, 2007
- Some photographs of the March 3rd lunar eclipse.
- Dissenting opinion
- March 1, 2007
- Vandals have taken to defacing anti-authoritarian wall art in my neighborhood.
- Confession
- February 8, 2007
- I am an unrepentant criminal. Here is my confession.
- Alive in Mexico
- December 5, 2006
- Another friend gets arrested, this time by Mexican police in Oaxaca.
- Rhymes with 'Flymo'
- November 29, 2006
- NaNoWriMo has my soul again
- Erin
- October 30, 2006
- Erin Siegal, Reuters and Indymedia photographer, has been arrested by the NYPD while covering a demonstration.
- Roller Derby
- October 14, 2006
- The Bronx Gridlock and the Queens of Pain meet in Manhattan, and I get to take pictures from the ringside.
- Babel
- July 21, 2006
- Note to self: Portuguese is not just a funny kind of Spanish.
- Pantsed by God
- July 16, 2006
- The Atlantic ocean wants your swimsuit.
- To Rio
- July 15, 2006
- Photographs and musings on the way to Rio de Janeiro.
- Ceçi n'est pas un blog
- July 9, 2006
- A couple of blogs that I'd like you to check out.
- Enter the sorcerer
- March 25, 2006
- If rumor is to be believed, the Thai prime minister has resorted to using magic to stay in power.
- Furthur (V)
- January 23, 2006
- All this, and a deep-frozen monk too.
- Furthur
- January 19, 2006
- A road trip from Phnom Penh to Sisophon.
- Mortality
- January 18, 2006
- How the other half dies.
- Phnom Penh
- January 17, 2006
- Back to Phnom Penh, which hasn't changed much in a year and a half.
- Going downhill fast
- December 31, 2005
- Recent arrests and trials of opposition figures bode ill for Cambodia's fragile democracy.
- Sony on the street
- December 5, 2005
- More questionable publicity for Sony.
- Potemkin East
- October 30, 2005
- Drug-crazed Hollywood film-makers build Berkeley on the Lower East Side, call it Greenwich Village.
- Meet the LRAD
- October 2, 2005
- Some pictures of a police Long Range Acoustical Device from the 2004 protests against the RNC.
- San Francisco
- August 8, 2005
- Photographs from San Francisco.
- Monterey
- August 7, 2005
- Photographs from Monterey, California
- Cuauhtemoc
- August 6, 2005
- Photos: the tall ship 'Cuauhtemoc' at Monterey
- MBARI
- August 5, 2005
- Photographs of undersea exploration vehicles from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
- The Giglio
- July 10, 2005
- Photographs taken at Williamsburg's Feast of the Giglio.
- Lao Kao
- June 19, 2005
- Welcome to Lamphang province - homebrew capital of Thailand.
- The Great Saunter
- May 10, 2005
- Walking the outer rim of Manhattan on the Shorewalkers' Great Saunter.
- Good Friday
- May 1, 2005
- Eastern Orthodox Good Friday service, at the Cathedral of Holy Virgin Protection, New York.
- Nuweiba
- October 8, 2004
- I was always afraid that someone would notice just how easily a terrorist attack could be carried out on the Sinai coast around Nuweiba. And someone did.
- Disoriented
- July 28, 2004
- There's no place like home - wherever that might be.
- Da Lat
- July 15, 2004
- Da Lat in the Central Highlands of Vietnam has all the weather it can use, and more.
- Hue and Hoi An
- July 12, 2004
- Jottings from Central Vietnam.
- Going by the Book
- July 6, 2004
- Seen from Hanoi, the planet doesn't look quite so Lonely after all.
- Farangs
- June 29, 2004
- You meet such fascinating people when you travel.
- Dance of the Apsaras
- June 13, 2004
- Even heavy rain at Angkor can't stop the dance of the apsaras.
- Bangkok to Kampot
- June 3, 2004
- From Bangkok to Kampot, Cambodia, by bus, boat, motorcycle and car.
- Visa Run
- June 2, 2004
- It's time to leave Thailand - and come back in with a new visa.
- Shrines
- May 30, 2004
- On Bangkok's roadside shrines, Hindu outposts in a Buddhist country
- Rain
- May 23, 2004
- At this time of year in Bangkok, it seems to rain once a day. Hard.
- Khlong Saen Saep
- May 16, 2004
- The Khlong Saen Saep canal boat - the only form of public transport in the world that runs on toxic waste.
- Hi-So
- May 13, 2004
- In which we go to a fashionable party and have a surprising encounter on the way home.