This month’s Esquire features the finest example of magazine writing that I’ve seen in years. It is Chris Jones’s “The Things That Carried Him”, and it is extraordinary journalism. Jones tells the story of how the body of Sergeant Joe Montgomery makes its way from a Baghdad suburb to its final resting place in a […]
I’ve been to Moscone Center in San Francisco a few times. I only learned a couple of weeks ago that it was named after George Moscone, former mayor of San Francisco. Along with city supervisor Harvey Milk, he was killed by a former, disgruntled employee.
I was talking to somebody about Moscone at Web 2.0 Expo […]
I don’t know why, but I really enjoy stories of people obsessively exploring minor details of history. The latest example is a series of three lengthy blog posts by director Errol Morris discussing his research into the order in which two photographs were taken.
They’re two photos by Roger Fenton, taken of a barren road during […]
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