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    Friends' and other favorite blogs:

    Mike Daisey
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    Elan Tanzer
    Sarah Hepola
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    iTunes favorites
    I keep one playlist on iTunes just for my favorite songs of the moment. Here's what's on the list now:

    The Allman Brothers Band
       "Dreams"
    Charles Mingus
       "E's Flat Ah's Flat Too"
    Cream
       "White Room"
    Creedence Clearwater Revival
       "Fortunate Son"
    Curtis Mayfield
       "Move On Up"
    Dennis Coffey
       "Scorpio"
    Elastica
       "In The City"
    Frank Morey
       "Uncle Lefty's Lament"
    Gogol Bordello
       "Start Wearing Purple"
    Grateful Dead
       "Franklin's Tower"
    The Isley Brothers
       "Work To Do"
    Jennifer Convertibles
       "Speedracer"
    Johnny Cash
       "The Man Who Couldn't Cry"
    Les Negresses Vertes
       "Marcelle Ratafia"
    Locket
       "Dead Pet"
    Mano Negra
       "King Of Bongo"
    Mano Negra
       "Ronde De Nuit"
    Randy Newman
       "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)"
    Solomon Burke
       "Baby (I Wanna Be Loved)"
    Solomon Burke
       "It's Been A Change"
    Stevie Wonder
       "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
    Stevie Wonder
       "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
    The Temptations
       "Cloud Nine"
    Tom Waits
       "The Piano Has Been Drinking"
    Tommy James & The Shondells
       "Draggin' The Line"
    X
       "Nausea"

    (October 3, 2005)


    Film links
    Some of my favorite film-review links, some very offbeat but all good:

    David N. Butterworth — La Movie Boeuf
    Bright Lights Film
    Weird Professor Type
    Reconstructed Bellybutton
    Pablo Hernandez — Film Essential
    Pajiba
    The Flick Philosopher

    Stuff to read
    American:
    Christian Science Monitor
    New Republic
    Newsday
    New York Observer
    New York Post
    New York Times
    Washington Post
    Amsterdam News
    The Onion
    UK:
    The Guardian
    The Independent
    The Scotsman
    BBC
    French:
    Le Figaro
    Libération
    Le Monde
    German:
    Frankfurter Algemeine
    Süddeutsche Zeitung
    Die Welt
    Die Zeit
    Canadian:
    Globe and Mail
    Mexican:
    La Jornada
    Magazines:
    Atlantic Monthly
    New Yorker
    Washington Monthly
    Online:
    Salon
    Consortium News
    Slate
    Talking Points Memo
    Daily Kos
    Eschaton
    Specialized:
    Economists\' Voice
    History News Network
    National Security Archive

    Photo links
    DP Review
    Canon DSLR Challenge
    In-Public.com
    Streetphoto.fsnet.co.uk
    Jessica Tanzer
    PBase.com
    Photoethnography

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    Series: Picture a week 2005



    Entries:



     Picture of the week #6: Portland

    My picture-a-week resolution didn't work out that well, considering it's December and I'm on week 6. (And not planning to take pictures in the near future.)  . . . [more]
    December 20, 2005




     Picture a week #5: Central Park, early spring

    I've been very bad about posting a picture a week, mainly (here comes my big excuse) because the weather has been so lousy in New York. But today was foggy and  . . . [more]
    April 1, 2005




     Picture a week #4: Santa Monica

    My last day in L.A., we headed out to Santa Monica to pick up Rachel from her job and watch the sun set over the beach — which proved impossible. Two  . . . [more]
    February 2, 2005




     Picture a week #3: San Francisco

    Another picture from Baker Beach in San Francisco — this would be the picture of the week from two weeks ago. (Unfortunately I missed the shot of the  . . . [more]
    February 1, 2005




     Picture a week #2: Midtown Manhattan

    Continuing my dilettantish foray into photography ... I've been reading up on three kinds of photography in particular — sports, concerts (there's  . . . [more]
    January 7, 2005




     Picture a week #1: Hoboken

    I recently discovered the "Picture a Week" phenomenon on the Web — photographers (mostly devoted amateurs, I'm guessing) resolve to put up a picture a  . . . [more]
    January 1, 2005