PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) – Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled “Jail Bird.”
… [The prosecution] used [...]
A little vid from CNN about “the side of Iran visitors rarely see”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/20754821#20754821
I’ll post it in videos too.
The author effuses about nonmarried couples holding hands, in public (!!!!) and about a woman showing her own horse - at a high-class country club. If you go up in the mountains, he says, the police don’t go [...]
… and why is he meeting with (the new) President Fernandez?
In this picture released by Argentina’s Presidency, President Cristina Fernandez, right, shakes hands with Spain’s actor Antonio Banderas, center, as he introduces his wife US actress Melanie Griffith at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007.
(AP Photo/Argentina Presidency)
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Antonio-Banderas/ss/events/en/121407banderas#/071214/481/d550da21993547ceac9415e2798a6e86
… and will return Sunday evening. Provided the plane gets off the ground this afternoon! It’s snowing like crazy here…
(cell phone pix…)
Soooo… I thought I’d post Istanbul pictures. (If you’re not sure where Istanbul is, go here to find out…)
So this is Sultanahmet, the old city. I loved the cobblestone streets. The hotel was about three blocks from here.
Down the street a little (to the right of picture 1; if you keep going down [...]
Doing research on modern terrorism (under Soviet war in Afghanistan), I came across this photo in Wikipedia:
Soviet soldier in Afghanistan, 1988. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev
Found myself thinking about light and shadow, about all the contrasts inherent in war. Soldiers giving peace signs to small children. A baby-faced 19-year-old screaming for his [...]
… will look like this:
This is from BusinessWeek, an article/slide show titled “Auto design students imagine the hybrid vehicle of the future in a sponsored student class“
… ok, so the title isn’t much, but the cars are cool! Check this one out:
I was struck as much by the similarities of the cars (tinted windows, [...]
From Fodor’s
Spring in Buenos Aires is a Culture Vulture’s Delight
Buenos Aires’ non-stop artistic calendar keeps the city’s culture vultures busy and content, and now that spring has arrived in the southern hemisphere, the city is absolutely teeming with cultural offerings for visitors and locals alike.
The city is celebrating Art Week this week with an array [...]
This has nothing to do with policy, or anything like it
I spend most of my time in easy-to-read-in clothing, and I’d just love to have a more glamorous life One of these days, I’m definitely going to get into evening gowns.
In the meantime, this is a lovely hat:
This is my [...]
Dear friends, family, and everpatient blog readers. I’ve been Very Very Busy.
Unfortunately, the more fun things i do, the less I tend to blog, and vice versa. This seems to have the (unhelpful) effect effect of rendering my bloggish moments fairly dull….
In any case. For those of you using gmail, here’s a Very [...]
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