Jesus, I leave the country for one frigging week and the Daft Punk album sucks, Obama scandals abound, Yahoo buys Tumblr, and my wife leaves me for a Def Leppard roadie.
But France was pretty.
Dean & Britta - Moonshot (2000)
(footage from L’avventura)
Breakfast, anyone?
This post presents about as good an overview on the challenges and opportunities in academic publishing as I’ve read in a while, though I am not yet convinced that the big publishers and the societies they publish won’t have a key role in the transition.
Tourism in the rain, Notre Dame de la Garde, Marseille (at Notre Dame De La Garde)
Corbusier’s rooftop terrace (at Cité Radieuse Le Corbusier)
Corbu à Marseille (at Cité Radieuse Le Corbusier)
‘My Night with the Prostitute From Marseille’ by Beirut
“My Night with the Prostitute from Marseille” by Beirut does not reflect my experiences in Marseille.
Palais
Clothespins? Clothespins. Fucking France.
Avions de Marseille
Ooof. As someone who’s newborn spent a week in the NICU, this hits a bit close to home.
Metaphase is a comic about a superhero who’s son is born with heart defects and Down Syndrome, written by Chip Reese of stashmycomics.com, who’s own son was born with heart defects and Down Syndrome.
I’m automatically suspicious of anything so blatantly full of message but I picked up the free preview on Comixology a week or so back not knowing anything about it, and I read it on the plane yesterday. I liked it quite a bit, and I think it has a lot of promise.
But it reminded me that I should never read or watch anything about parents and kids while I’m traveling. I already miss the boys and so I get extra-sensitive about this junk. Which is why it also wasn’t a brilliant idea for me to watch the Simon and Marcy episode of Adventure Time on the in-flight video.
I was in rough shape due to some cartoons for a while yesterday.
When in Rome… (at Basilica di S.Maria degli Angeli e dei Martini)
