sometimes, someone comes along and says exactly what you've been thinking.

I write in Brooklyn. Get Over it. By Colson Whitehead
As you may have heard, all the writers are in Brooklyn these days. It’s the place to be. You’re simply not a writer if you don’t live here. Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature ( Read more... )

remember the photo from yesterday's post? here's what the building looks like now. you can see on the top of the building where a big chunk of the cornice is now missing.


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yesterday afternoon, i took this photo. i'd been meaning to take a photo of this building for a long time, because they started knocking it down recently and i know i don't have much longer to go. what you see here is actually less than half the original structure. that thing was huge!


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our next stop after the vineyard was rome. we made the mistake of driving there on an "ecological sunday" which means that you can't drive anywhere in the historic center during the day. since the hotel we made reservations at was in campo dei fiori, in the historic center, this posed some problems. compound that with the general spiderweb-like ( Read more... )

two days after the wedding we packed up and left the amalfi coast. with four of us (and everyone's suitcases) in the car and another three friends busing it, we arrived in pompeii that afternoon ( Read more... )

A few more photos from the days before the wedding...

castle ruins in campagna, italy:

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i've finally uploaded my photos to the computer, now i just need to go through and pick out the best ones (i took hundreds, and i know y'all don't want to be looking at each and every one!)

this was the view from our hotel room in amalfi:


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oh... this is so bad. and yet, so funny...

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our newark documentary has been nominated for the mid-atlantic emmyswe're up against three other documentaries, and i haven't seen any of them, but our film director thinks only one of them is going to be tough to beat ( Read more... )

paestum is the site of the largest intact greek temples outside of greece. the most famous one, the top part of which is pictured below, is now known as the temple of apollo (though i still think of it as the temple of hera, which is what i was taught in my history of architecture I textbook).


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