once i wanted to be the greatest

I just finished reading Hellhound On His Trail by Hampton Sides, subtitled: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr and the International Hun...

I read 51 books in 2010, falling short of my goal of 52, to average a book a week, but still I guess 51 isn't so bad. I wanted to rank ...

Tom was only gone for about 30 minutes tonight; he left the house to come pick me up from work, which I got out of about 15 minutes later th...

The Church of the Immaculate Conception, at Belvedere and Central. As I've said many times before, one thing Memphis has going for it is...

Inspired by an event in Oak Cliff, Dallas last year, where a young man convinced a bunch of people to come to a decrepit and crumbling block...

My friend Dmitry and I decided today to go out and take some photographs of Memphis. I don't think we necessarily intended to go photog...

I've taken lately to reading the blog Poor Girl Eats Well , which I really appreciate the ingenuity of, but it also seems like she uses ...

Lou Reed directed the video for Susan Boyle's version of "Perfect Day." That is one of my very favorite songs of all time, an...

Memphis has an estimated 8,000 vacant and abandoned properties within the city limits. Most of these are homes (or apartment buildings) tha...

Today I have returned from my week-long "intensive" i did for work. This involved spending 144 around the clock hours with 5 othe...