The City Sojourner #3: Venice at Gaucho – Summary: How do I save money in Venice? You don’t.
‘… [L]ife just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens. The O.J. Simpson trial lasted months, and much of it was deadly dull. Stories solve this problem—as the critic Clive James once put it, “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.” This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends.’ The Pleasures of Imagination by Paul Bloom at the Chronicle Review
The War of Art: An Interview with Steven Pressfield “… it never gets easier. You still have to slay the dragon every morning.”
It’s a couple months old and I don’t know how I missed it, but you must read this Vanity Fair feature on “the unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.” (Also, the second incarnation is up at exiledonline.com)
The Comprehensive Concert Photography Primer by Jeff Jewiss – This is boot camp if you want to be all you can be in the concert photography army
The Great Gizmo, Design by Choice, Reyner Banham, September 1965
Magic Ink – A collection of essays on software, design, interface, theory, technology, usability, (and those words variously arranged) written by Bret Victor
Part two of my city travel series just went up at the Gaucho blog, and you can read it here. I cover such topics as cheap flights and choosing a good hostel and the volcano in Iceland that nearly stranded me in Barcelona. There is also one very astute observation concerning the Catalonian culture which you may find of interest, and that is: … click to find out.
I’m officially a cog in the blogging machine. I’ve been recruited to write for the nifty, thrifty Gaucho savings blog. Costa, a man of many talents, is the new content editor and he brought me in. You can read My First Lesson in Frugality. I also have a series running called The City Sojourner. Part one covers the weekend I spent stomping about Paris on the cheap. Well, more like trying to be cheap and failing. We live and we learn.
With the health care reform battle behind them, Democrats turn to the next beast: regulatory reform… with less resistance than expected