a warm holiday greeting from the Dudui crowd

haters be damned - bob can do as he pleases musically.

PDAers in the shadow of the iconic kavanagh building

female and male aspirers to the vip demographic - in their natural habitat

colonial africa = chocolate craving??

can someone explain the branding objective behind this product to me?

an image by gifted photographer, fellow appreciator of fluorescent lighting, displaced montrealer and good friend, dariusz...the last man on earth to call himself a photographer (oddly enough).

this moderately creepy, shifty-eyed santa claus perfectly reflects my current level (or lack thereof) of holiday spirit; this being my first ever* southern hemisphere christmas. i don't mean this in a characteristically scrooge-like fashion either. it's been a pleasure in fact not having had yuletide consumerism rammed down my throat from november 1st onwards.

(*as an aside, christmas '02 was spent in a pseudo-southern hemispheric guatemala devoid of yuletide spirit yet abounding in most other forms of spirits. sk)

lunch in the serene back garden at Home

Tigre on the Paraná Delta

corazón. the proverbial (and linguistic) tie that binds all latin pop songs in harmonious union.

"I'm a cynical idealist." He paused and wondered if that meant anything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

happy birthday to ol' man korpisto. xo

the displaced montrealer himself

i could probably publish a book on the sunrises of buenos aires but this morning's really took it to another level on the tail-end of a minor electrical storm. no post-production required. sk

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

despite ken livingstone's best efforts, surely BA must take the prize for most buses per capita.

happy (belated) 1st birthday to TMFB.

630 posts and counting, it's been a fun and rewarding project thus far. sk

"The revenge of the suburb on the city wasn't simply the depletion of its urban population or the exodus of its retailers and office workers, but rather the importation of suburbia into the heart of the city: chain stores and restaurants, downtown malls, and even detached housing. If the gift of urban planners to suburbia was the tenets of the New Urbanism, it has been regifted, returned to cities not as tips for close-knit communities but as recipes for ever more intensive consumer experiences."

Andrew Blauvelt

Worlds Away

New Suburban Landscapes