Mungote Refugee

Mungote Refugee, originally uploaded by jsgraphicdesign.

One of a short series of refugees from the Mungote camp in North Kivu Province, DRC.

Trattoria Tenor

Finally starting to put up pictures from my family's travels in Italy and France this summer.


Trattoria Tenor, originally uploaded by jsgraphicdesign.

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Through the open window of a restaurant in Verona, around midnight. One of my favorite shots from Italy '11.

New Mix: "Lonesome"

Check it out:

It's one of my more eclectic mixes (decade and genre-wise). Some of these songs are pretty well known (like Thomas King's track from the O' Brother soundtrack), while others are more obscure (e.g., the Dylan bootleg or Grier's Engagement Waltz). I've been listening to a lot of downtempo music lately, so I figured I'd make a mix of it. The Jerry Douglas song is new to me, a real gem. My only regret is that I didn't have any Stuart Duncan to include.

No, Sufjan Stevens didn't make the cut. Next time...

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Today I went to a barbecue in the Mission with the Mother Jones reporter who took me to the DR Congo, and I met Justin Elliot, who writes about politics for Salon.com. Which is cool, not only because Justin is really nice and has also worked on the porn/obscenity stuff I wrote my philosophy thesis on, but also because he's one degree of separation from one of my most favoritest political columnists, Glenn Greenwald.

MoJo also currently has an austerely moving photo essay on the soldiers who prepare dead soldiers for the return to friendly shores.

Finally, here's another photo I took the other night. I'm trying to post more these days...

810, originally uploaded by jsgraphicdesign.

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The blue light peeking through the crack in the fence is the dusk sky.