2008

So… lots of water under the bridge, but I just realized that THEY HAVE SENSE AND SENSIBILITY...

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i’m at home, watching keith and then maddow with my parents, getting ready to go vote tomorrow...

p.s. fuck bill cunningham, x2

frank rich column

thanks again, errol

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from my brother-in-law’s blog, documenting their...

things for which i am grateful

that hulu has episodes of the alfred hitchcock hour.

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poached from megan’s julius schulman book. not taken...

feeling bad again...

rats off a sinking ship

“look, sara, they paved paradise and put up a parametric...”
— loren

moogs and me + anamorphosis?

I ♥ François Virot.

this is what democracy looks like?

los angeles, part 1

cute! and strange. leaving in the morning to head to la for...

finally a headline i can get on board with. also: the...

loren said today, after we looked at footage of the man flying across the english channel with a...

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too much!

actually…maybe i should be following this election...

update

number of days back in school: 5 fingernails bitten off: 10 number of students enrolled in my...

on bullshit

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why not to read the political coverage from people...

the role of godard (situationist...

[someone at the SI really had it in for this guy. since suffering through le weekend in may...

this will sound uncharitable. but. every few days that i spend with my nieces and nephews means a...

to add to a list of things that i love: i love lemon clouds.

brilliant.

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"irresistibly propitious"

becky went to interview hu jintao and ended up on the cover...

discovered: a fantastic site where owners attach cameras to...

più

peterhof

more st. petersburg

Paris' Parents to McCain: How Dare You

now i am on the oregon coast (these postings feel like telegrams). we saw seals and two whales...

now i’m in portland. in the airport. waiting for a flight to eugene to go see my sister. they...

it was nice and there was this crazy film he had made in the...

not sleeping it is. one of my favorite pieces of...

back, trying to decide if i should sleep or maybe not sleep before the flight home. i had one last...

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back in copenhagen for another day before my flight leaves...

and there was a peacock made out of solid gold.

it was quite lovely

so i went to the hermitage…

i am in the middle of the sea, geographically, metaphorically, etc. there is blackjack here, and...

The place, largely designed by Limbaugh himself, reflects the things and places he has seen and...

there is nothing quite like the agony and the ecstasy of eating too many gummi bears. i laid waste...

China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo

and finally...

museums are free today. so i am off to museum (much time devoted to thinking about how to be...

so… i decided suddenly that something had to be done...

monkids

more old delhi

from jama masjid, old delhi.

europa

so now i’m in copenhagen. the short story is that it’s lovely to be here. i...

amsterdam, part two

back in the airport in amsterdam, overpaying again for wireless, after my flight from delhi last...

and the beginning of a massive trash-pile on the outskirts...

from a roadside restaurant on the way to delhi.

so - i was thinking - i know that i shoudn’t like prufock and other observations so much,...

and: for reference, this is what the inside of a motor -...

spotted: this guy carrying an immense amount of fabric...

'curveball'

i’m getting near the end of the road with nandu, the...

so i know this is super-ridicuous…but i woke up this...

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the facility is now the chandigarh forest department. behind...

the rooftop that jeanneret designed in sector 19 for the...

from upstairs in my building in sector 15.

note to self:

for when i no longer get sms from airtel: “Free special ringtone! Dial 543217 to get Chaliyya,...

i just killed a fly that landed on my computer by attacking it with a bunch of kleenex. either he...

sad day

i just finished the box of siroopwafelen that i bought for myself at schiphol, leaving me only a...

another shot from the golden temple in amritsar.

but actually i feel a little triumphant because when i was...

so i woke up few days ago and, thanks to the humidity and...

update

maybe it could be called le corbusier’s revenge? (devised on a nauseous walk home.) when i got...

on a sad note, i have now experienced “delhi belly” (although still hours away from...

i just finished watching the craziest movie, called humko...

plus an update of tiffinwatch 2008.

from inside the golden mosque, amritsar.

dog update

again today as i was leaving to go find a nice place outside to do some reading i saw a dog leaving...

mundaneum museum

a shot of the svassa in amritsar - it was very swanky...

...Mr. Obama is not only holding on to Mrs....

my favorite dessert from amritsar was this, kind of like a...

also it should be noted before going further: it is not fun to find giant ants in one’s shoes.

amritsar

lots to report from my short trip to amritsar. we: stayed in an achingly lovely hotel saw the...

back from a trip to simla, off for a (very short) trip to...

aditya prakash in his studio

not kidding

there was just a sound at the door like someone knocking. i went to open it and saw a stray dog...

bull. shit.

new day = pink plus green and yellow dupatta. i feel...

plus in the neighborhood, near the market after a rainstorm...

+ a bit closer.

a joiner i made yesterday of photos of a jane-drew designed...

parts two and three of blue outfit. tomorrow: pink outfit!

in other news…i found an amazing store called fabindia...

the dorkiest thing i have done so far today…which is...

a housing complex designed by jane drew - from...

the blue dot is where i live…in case anyone is in the...

and the cca again.

aand..humayun’s tomb

and more..

and then right back to the cca from yesterday…