Impossible to work

Last night was the 3rd annual Printers’ Ball, hosted by the Poetry Foundation at the Zhou B. Center. It was really awesome, until the cops shut it down (around 10:30 or so). This was the best possible event anyone could have hoped for. For my own part, I walked out with about 20 pounds worth […]

If you know me, or have been reading this blog, you’ll know that my friend Paul is a photographer and that he is currently in Lebanon. He also occasionally writes “dispatches” for The Digital Journalist. His latest dispatch is available here. It’s pretty good (then again, I edit most everything he writes and am therefore […]

Once upon a time, the members of Lucky Pierre came across a URL. That URL, no longer active, was a listing of the final meals of death row inmates in Texas. Here’s a cached version from The Memory Hole. This website spawned a rather large scale project of filming individuals (all volunteers) eating the last […]

Last night I went on a ride-along with a bona fide sworn Tulsa Police Officer. This is actually the second time I’ve gone on a ride-along and it was over way too early in the evening. A chase ended in lots of paperwork which led to the end of my ride-along at 2 AM. Last […]

Oh how I love a nice big May Day Protest. Though, to be fair, this was not a particularly energetic demonstration in comparison to the last one I took part in, which was may day 2002 in Paris. French people actually get upset when a fascist is a stone’s throw away from being president of […]