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- Democracy 2K8
- November 4, 2008
- Democracy is coming to the USA; in bite-sized pieces, once every four years.
- 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.
- One Fish Two Fish
- September 27, 2008
- The bluefish are running.
- Detained in Beijing
- August 20, 2008
- My friend Brian Conley from Alive in Baghdad has been detained in Beijing.
- Tea with the sadhu
- January 2, 2008
- A tea break with the residents of a Hanuman shrine in Khajuraho.
- Strange days indeed
- October 11, 2007
- Only in Tajikistan can a ride in a shared taxi turn into an industrial spelunking expedition.
- A tale of two trucks
- October 11, 2007
- A short truck ride in the Fan Mountains.
- The Gray Plague
- October 8, 2007
- The police in Dushanbe are everywhere ... and they have too much time on their hands.
- The view from Bulunkul
- October 5, 2007
- Bulunkul, in the Pamiri desert: dry earth, a handful of houses, no future.
- Checkpoint
- October 4, 2007
- Chance encounters in the desert.
- Howo Kush
- October 2, 2007
- Strange things happen on the road to Khorog.
- Tavildara Road
- October 1, 2007
- Taking the old road from Dushanbe to Khorog.
- 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.
- Birds and the Bees (and Crabs)
- May 31, 2007
- Love is in the air (for wild turkeys and mind-blowingly ancient arthropods).
- 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.
- Great Saunter 2007
- May 5, 2007
- Here we go round the island again.
- Fire and Police
- April 4, 2007
- High drama - and a touch of farce - on the streets of New York.
- Confession
- February 8, 2007
- I am an unrepentant criminal. Here is my confession.
- Power Washer
- January 6, 2007
- Photographs of the power-washing of 188 Suffolk Street, Manhattan
- Best of breed
- October 29, 2006
- Pictures from the Halloween Dog Parade in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
- 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.
- Ceçi n'est pas un blog
- July 9, 2006
- A couple of blogs that I'd like you to check out.
- Feast of St Joey
- May 19, 2006
- The Hungry March Band leads a procession in honor of Joey Ramone.
- Gardens on the march
- May 13, 2006
- A march for community gardens visits the Lower East Side.
- Great Saunter 2006
- May 7, 2006
- The Great Saunter 2006: another thirty-two miles round Manhattan's rim.
- Erawan
- March 22, 2006
- The Brahma statue at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine has been smashed by a mentally-ill man.
- Furthur (V)
- January 23, 2006
- All this, and a deep-frozen monk too.
- Furthur (III)
- January 21, 2006
- Sight-seeing a la Khmer.
- Furthur (II)
- January 20, 2006
- Sissophon to Battambang: the odyssey continues.
- 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.
- Sic transit
- December 20, 2005
- The first day of the New York transit strike wasn't so bad - for me at least.
- Potemkin East
- October 30, 2005
- Drug-crazed Hollywood film-makers build Berkeley on the Lower East Side, call it Greenwich Village.
- Down with the Mahdi Army
- June 21, 2005
- It's raining in Mae Hong Son, and I cannot decide if I should buy one of Major Hillpig-Smyth's patented walking sticks.
- Lao Kao
- June 19, 2005
- Welcome to Lamphang province - homebrew capital of Thailand.
- Back to Bangkok
- June 13, 2005
- Returning once again to Bangkok, via Tokyo.
- Good Friday
- May 1, 2005
- Eastern Orthodox Good Friday service, at the Cathedral of Holy Virgin Protection, New York.
- Occupied Zone
- September 3, 2004
- In which I get to show my photographs to the Secret Service.
- Neither snow nor rain
- September 1, 2004
- Even though I work just a few blocks away, I can almost ignore the RNC. Others are not so lucky.
- 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.
- Ha Long Bay
- July 9, 2004
- When jellyfish attack: horror in Ha Long Bay
- Dance of the Apsaras
- June 13, 2004
- Even heavy rain at Angkor can't stop the dance of the apsaras.
- Say 'No' to drugs
- June 10, 2004
- Under the influence of powerful drugs in Cambodia - caffeine, dramamine, fatigue and Reaganism.
- Dr Strangedops
- June 5, 2004
- Three adults, one motorcycle, forty-eight klicks - no problem!
- Bangkok to Kampot
- June 3, 2004
- From Bangkok to Kampot, Cambodia, by bus, boat, motorcycle and car.
- Shrines
- May 30, 2004
- On Bangkok's roadside shrines, Hindu outposts in a Buddhist country
- 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.
- Care the lovely plants
- April 29, 2004
- First impressions of Hong Kong at the misty end of April.
- Counting Down
- April 17, 2004
- In about ten days time, I'll be leaving New York for three months in Asia. My new employers have kindly consented to me taking the time off, so with the ink still wet on my job contract (we have slow-drying...