The Nightshirt Sightings, Portents, Forebodings, Suspicions

Archive for June, 2009

Hirshhorn floor

Tuesday, 23 June, 2009

So E and I went to the Hirshhorn this weekend. It’s my favorite DC gallery, but I hadn’t been in a few years. For some reason, I totally fell in love with the way the pinkish green floor looked in my iPhone camera. Then I got mesmerized by the marble floor on the upper level. […]

Secrecy and Truth

Sunday, 14 June, 2009

Call me crazy, but I think that the age of open, free publication has done something to debase or weaken the domain of thought in the West. Where are the really powerful and amazing ideas? I want to Prague in 1990 because I was in love with the idea of samizdat, of an underground culture […]