September 2006
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The Streets Of Lisboa
The sidewalks of Lisbon are overwhelmingly cobbles, and there must be hundreds of people employed repairing the sidewalks, like this guy: There is a casual grubbiness to Lisbon, where a fashionable hotel is immediately adjacent to an abandoned lot, overgrown with weeds. The political graffiti is much less than when I was here in the late 70’s but there is still a lot of it, so the streets...
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Dinner At SolMar
Out with Euan Semple, Suw Charman, and Steph Booth last night, eating in the Praça dos Restauradores in Lisbon. This morning, the Shift conference has started.
[credit: David Tebbutt for photo]
Here’s the neon sign:
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Lar's Lair
My pal Lars Plougmann has a boss flat in London, near London Bridge station.
Here’s his pic of me:
And mine of him:
And the view from his deck, which is like 10 meters square with a 270 degree panorama over the Thames:
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The New Bedouins: This Is Over The Top
With the number of laptops per capita at coffee shops going up, we have all become a bit inured to the office-like feel of the corner espresso bar. However, this morning I was at the University Ave *$ (Starbucks), absorbing my favorite accelerant and reading the New York Times, when a local character made his entrance, carrying in a large PC, including LCD monitor. It was a relatively large floor...
Jon Stewart For President
Actually, this is probably a good idea: the Stewart/Colbert ticket.
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WTC: The religious event and the movie
David Weinberger is for secularizing our grief arising from the World Trade Center disaster:
[from WTC: The religious event and the movie]
“The attack on the World Trade Center was a despicable act of mass murder. As is true for too many of us, people I know lost loved ones there. But those deaths did not make the ground sacred. There’s something dangerous and unseemly about...
Death Of A President
Wish I was going to the Toronto Film Festival to see D.O.A.P. (Death Of A President):
[from mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY]
“Synopsis: Set in the near future, at a time when American foreign and domestic policies have further polarized the country’s electorate, Gabriel Range’s feature debut explores the fallout from a horrific attack on the administration. D.O.A.P. is a...
