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I don’t usually say much on the Monday Morning Photo Blog. I try to let the images speak for themselves. But earlier this evening Chris of Zeke’s Gallery hit me with a question that caused me to update this week’s post. Check it out… there’s even a new (second) photo!

Ziboy, aka Wen Ling, aka 基本信息, is a photo blogger in Beijing who posts “street photography” from that city. He hasn’t updated since June 9, when he posted a series from what appears to be the gatherings around Tiananmen Square on the 15th anniversary of that dark event of June 1989.
At a casual glance, Ziboy’s [...]

There’s been a weird but subtle shift. Something has changed. Our world today is a little bit different from what it has been…
No, this has nothing to do with yesterday’s federal election — I’m talking about the fact that I put a sports photo on the Monday Morning Photo Blog! Ewwwww!
If that isn’t weird enough, [...]

A while back I posted about my revulsion for canned fish (tuna notwithstanding) and how I’d like to get over it — at least when it comes to the finer varieties. A few lines from the Nigel Slater book Real Fast Food had me wishing I had the stomach for it.
Martine responded by stuffing my [...]

There is a forgotten part of Montreal, just south of downtown, lower even than Little Burgundy, that used to be called Griffintown. It is still called that by old-timers and the nostalgic, despite the fact that the Quebec government stamped a new label on it a few years ago (the forgettable “Faubourg des Récollets”), essentially [...]

The monkeys on my back can be broken down into three categories: mini-monkeys (not very important things that I keep putting off but I’ll get to eventually); major monkeys (important things that I really need to do in order to feel like some aspect of my life is moving forward); and 800-pound gorillas (don’t ask).
I’ve [...]

The theme for the June Monkey is: Tell us about the monkeys on your back.
Come on, everybody’s got ‘em. You know, those tasks or chores or one of these days items on your “to do” list that you can never quite get to even though you feel like it’s holding you back.
Personally, I don’t have [...]