The Blork Blog

Some evenings are simply unforgettable. Last night M and I wandered around the tiny downtown Isla Mujeres looking for a place to eat. We decided to go a bit upscale and found an excellent restaurant in a huge open-air palapa. We had lobster tostadas and grilled tuna spring rolls for appetizers. (This place had a [...]

Words: beach, salt water, ceviche, tortillas, cervezas, hammocks, enchilladas, 32 degrees Celcius. And we’ve been here for less than 36 hours. Fourteen more days to go!

I’m a little unsure about all this Jaggi Singh business. Singh is a local anti-globalization activist who keeps getting arrested. It seems wherever there’s a globalization thing going down, Jaggi shows up, gets arrested, and it’s big news for weeks. It’s like clockwork. Here comes Jaggi, turn around, and here come the cops. I’ll bet [...]

We’ve heard about the looting in Baghdad and Basra that took place last week, but check out this story about four U.S. soldiers arrested in Baghdad for trying to steal $12 million of an estimated $160 million in cash that was found in one of Saddam’s money stashes. It’s a story right out of that [...]

M and I have been talking about taking a trip down south for a few months now, but for various reasons we couldn’t quite get it together. Last week the schedules flew open for both of us, so off we go, on Saturday, for two hot weeks in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Reports indicate that May [...]

Look, I’ve barely blogged in the past week. Nor have a lot of other people on my blogroll. Commenting is down, and my statistics have taken a nose-dive after peaking in March. What’s up? Are we losing interest? Has the medium of the blog ceased to be the message? And as a result, have we [...]

Nina Simone, dead at 70.