My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

August book club selection

Visit to ER for dumb accident

Visit to ER for dumb accident

Bruised, not broken, foot.

Image Quilts

Image Quilts

Making image quilts in the Chrome browser

Hong Kong tram photos

Hong Kong tram photos

Interior and exterior photos of the HK tram in transit

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

David Grann

Essay collection by the author of Killers of the Flower Moon.

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

William H. Gass

A new and compelling discovery for me. The work is difficult to summarize or put into a genre, oddly.

Emerald Dove

Emerald Dove

A photo I snapped of a nearby dove.

Ms Ice Sandwich

Ms Ice Sandwich

Mieko Kawakami

A brief but oddly engaging novel narrated by a grammar school student.

Kyoto, after dark

Kyoto, after dark

Various photos I took of Kyoto at night.

Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in 4k

Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in 4k

Akira Kurosawa

The trailer from the new high-def version of the finest work done by Kurosawa.

Silver-eared mesia

Silver-eared mesia

It took me at least a week to hunt down this little guy. Worth it.

Fairytales

Fairytales

Radka Toneff & Steve Dobrogosz

What I listened to today.

Sunlight through trees

Sunlight through trees

Wim Wenders

Spotted dove

Spotted dove

"You spotted a dove?" "No, it's a spotted dove, a 珠頸斑鳩.

Koi Ponds

Koi Ponds

Koi? Oh boy!

Pastoralia

Pastoralia

George Saunders

My favorite collection of Saunders' short stories until Tenth of December came out.

Knotty pine in Japan

Knotty pine in Japan

And if this isn't knotty, I don't know what is.

Bamboo grove

Bamboo grove

Hey, Dave, what's up with all the branches and trees?

A dream of birches near water

A dream of birches near water

A dream of birch trees?

Tree branches branching

Tree branches branching

It's what they do.