The Blork Blog

Believe it or not, the Blork Blog is not my only venue. There’s also my Monday Morning Photo Blog, and a newer little ditty I call “My DP1,” a blog about my quest to learn more about, and possibly acquire, the formerly elusive Sigma DP1 digital camera. (Long story short; the camera was announced in […]

As is my annual habit, I present to you the list of books I read in the year just ended (2007).

The Best Travel Writing 2007 (Traveler’s Tales Books), edited by James & Sean O’Reilly and Larry Habegger
The Man Who Turned Into Himself, by David Ambrose
Night Train, by Martin Amis
Heavy Water, by Martin Amis
Articles of War, […]

Bill Cosby’s new book is tantalizingly titled Come On People, which sounds like something you’d buy from one of those sleazy sex shops on rue Ste. Catherine, or maybe mail-order from one of Larry Flynt’s “plain brown wrapper” stores.
It’s a rather ambiguous title, no? After all, it doesn’t specify which people, nor even which type […]

Corprew Reed, over at Corprewland, has painstakingly re-written T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” in LOLcat-speak. (Found via Stony Curtis). Below is my side-by-side comparison of the beginning of the first section (IM IN UR WASTELAND BURYING UR DEAD). I don’t think I need to tell you which version is the Eliot one:

For the whole […]

I used to think I might be a good cartoonist. Years ago I discovered I could draw goofy and cartoonish characters pretty well – certainly better than some of the cartooning superstars out there like Scott Adams.
Unfortunately there was something missing – the joke. Or more specifically, the point.
Sure, I could draw a polar bear […]

The Doorbells of Florence is a “blook” of short fiction by Andrew Losowsky, in which each story is inspired, and accompanied, by a photograph of doorbells in Florence. It just won first place in the “fiction” category of the Lulu Blooker Prizes. A blook, by the way, is a printed book whose content was originally […]

This strange relationship I have with places (as described in part 1 and part 2) is reflected in much of the photography I do. My black and white work from the late 1980s and early 90s, for example, is all about places. In most cases to the complete exclusion of people.
Travellers often say that […]