last weekend @ Murdoch Perk

Dessert in a little patch of sun. Apples & cinnamon in a crepe drizzled with good caramel.

Anywhere else a bottomless cup of coffee would be wasted on me. Here I always seem to refill.

City as Art:: Saturday Night @ Art St. Louis

Okay, to be completely accurate, none of these were taken at the opening, and none of them are in the show. I took these on the walk back to my car after the opening. You should go to the show, though. It was good.


This is the ceiling of the old Chemical building lobby. I guess someone's fixing it up. Or maybe just scavenging. When I worked downtown I used to go to a lab in this building, Commercial B&W, when I was too far behind on my darkroom work.


I don't spend enough time wandering around in the dark.

I like to read a murder mystery. I like to know the killer isn't me

Love and hate - what a beautiful combination!


Sending shivers, make me quiver,
Feel it sliver up and down my spine!


For the complete spoken performance of Erasure's I Love to Hate You, come on down to The Royale next month.

Get ready

More about this later.

self portrait, Des Peres hall

Yesterday I interviewed for a new job at the university. It would pull me, literally and figuratively, out of the basement and into a high-profile position.

Conversation @ Rockin' Robins, Observable Readings

Read Robin Schaer

Happy New Year

Tonight for dinner I filled Grandmother's cast iron skillet with homemade cornbread, made with buttermilk and everything. The black-eyed peas cooked all afternoon with scraps of ham from Christmas. We didn't eat any pork chops, kielbasa or sauerkraut, but I'm hoping the tradition enforcing agents will be lenient.

Saturday @ in The Garden