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Tuckshop
Right before checking out tonight’s so you think you’re andro semi-finals at Play, where my friend June also celebrated her flirtieth birthday (happy flirtieth!), we starving folks checked out the one month old cafe next door. Who won’t love a name like theirs? I haven’t heard the word “tuckshop” (i.e. canteen) since primary school! [...]
Parrot Astrology
Narayani, parrot astrologer Lakshmi the parrot Both pictures shot with the Nokia N95. Meet Narayani, the parrot astrologer in Little India, Singapore, who sets up shop in the five foot way outside Komala Vilas. For $3, Narayani and Lakshmi will pick out cards.. let’s just say she’s not a very effective astrologer, but she was great fun. I [...]
Almost Home
I’m a little burnt out. I’m writing working like a maniac and when I close my eyes I dream of stories to pitch and pictures to shoot, and then I wake up without sleeping very much and to work on reducing that mounting backlog of work in progress. “Office” is “wherever there’s power, wifi and [...]
Epicurious
Why I haven’t been updating: I’ve been very busy eating. Eating my hearts out and re-discovering my city — since I will be away from it for 2 months, very soon. I’ve heard much about Epicurious over the last couple of years but never came around to looking for it. Now that the Robertson Quay [...]
HORN OK PLEASE
This amazing animated short follows a day in the life of a Bombay taxi driver who dreams of buying an air-conditioned car. Its title, of course, is taken after that eponymous phrase which adorns many taxis, trucks and other vehicles in India. Directed by Joel Simon of Flickerpix, in collaboration with Indian and Irish artists. [...]
Burning Question
Quick one for you running iPodders: Adidas-Polar, or Nike+ — for someone who runs Asics? Yes, I finally have an iPod nano! Let the geek races begin!
Beside Me
There are some things we never say enough, especially to the people who are around you all the time. I owe my rockstar brother a great deal. He sang two songs tonight at the wedding dinner—songs he’d written ten years ago. The twelve year old me used to sit around him while he wrote songs, [...]
Not-Cities
I was born in a city, yes—people like us never think of ourselves that way. The city is the world. Perhaps it is: the city connects us to other cities, which collectively are ‘The World’ (though we never think of them as ‘just other cities’). I have never had to go to another place in [...]