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Satan's Laundomat
in WeblinksThis is a Brooklyn-based photolog with an emphasis on urban decay, strange signage, and general weirdness.
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Austin Country Limits
in WeblinksThis website is a photo and digital art journal of the Greater Austin, Texas area.
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Neighborhood Changes
in NeighborhoodIn my neighborhood of Boston, it seems like every time I walk out the door I notice another store or restaurant that either has disappeared or just…
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Feathers of Hope
A weblog on nature and place, the design arts, politics, and baseball…Numenius is a geographer by training and temperament. He is a Bay Area native, and grew…
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Designing Vs Writing
The other night I got it in my head that I need to revise my site, and when this happens, I usually can’t get it out of…
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Memorial for a Downed Cyclist
While riding over the I-90 footbridge this weekend, I came across a memorial for Kirsten Malone, a young woman killed on Saturday when she was struck by…
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C&W 2004: Paper on Place Blogging
in DissertationI presented the following paper at the Computers and Writing 2004 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 10-13, 2003. This is a first run at writing about place…
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On the Road: Hawaii and LA
As a newbie blogger, I still have some learning to do regarding the conventions of keeping a regular weblog. For instance, I’ve been away for the past…
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Reflections on an In-Flight Movie
It’s about 8:00 pacific time, and I’m somewhere just over Witchita on the way to Honolulu. The in-flight movie just ended–50 First Dates–and I’m now I feel…
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Place Blogs in a Composition Reader?
Some colleagues and I are writing a short place-based composition reader for Longman Press, and in our last meeting we began discussing what readings we could include…
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Running Happy
in NeighborhoodAt lunch time I went for a run along my customary Brookline loop, a route which with a particular rhythm that I’ve grown fond of the last…
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Breakfast at Sorella's
in CityThis morning I went with my housemate, Monica, and her parents to Sorella’s in Jamaica Plain, and I was glad to discover a spot to add to…
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On Being from Fargo
in Hometown(Today I dusted off this essay–it’s about four years old now–and decided it would make a good addition to the ‘hometown’ section of this site.)On Being From…
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Boston driving, with a human face
The warmer weather apparently is enabling Boston drivers to be jerks to one another in more personal ways. Now that more windows are rolled down, intravehicular communication…
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Ecotone topic: Time and Place
in DissertationAfter much lurking and hanging back, I’ve decided that it’s time to post something for this week’s Ecotone topic, “Time And Place.” Even as I’ve fallen behind…
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The Bathroom Diaries
in WeblinksAs I was trying out the Vindingo mapping features on my PDA, I ran across a way to map all the nearby public restrooms. I was glad…
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Boston Stories and the City Stories Project
in DissertationToday as I made my way through the Ecotone site, I found my way to Derek Powazek’s The City Stories Project and subsequently to the Boston Stories…
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Defining locative media, summarizing the project
in DissertationIn this piece in the Guardian from about a year ago, Jim McClellan offers a succint summary of locative media, one that also resonates with the core…
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The Watertown Arsenal
Tonight Robert, Staci, and I celebrated the end of busy week with dinner at Red Sauce, housed in one of the Water Arsenal buildings. Walking to the…
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The Burger King Mooring Stone
Today as I made my lunch, I began craving French fries and, giving into temptation, I made my first visit to the Burger King about a block…
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The Sign of the Skateboard
Today as I went to Herrells to get a cup of coffee, I noticed this skateboard that someone took time to bold to the bus stop sign.…
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