Every goddamn day: 09/15/25

Sketches from a Punch and Judy show, by George Cruikshank (British Museum)      Punch and Judy is a traditional British puppet show, once fo...

               This is a relic from another era, when I'd pair with a photographer — in this case, my favorite shooter, Robert A. Davis ...

       I was never a Giorgio Armani kind of guy. First off, I wasn't rich. Second, I wasn't thin — a chunky endomorph in an Armani s...

The San Martin Palace in Buenos Aires. Once private residences, now the ceremonial headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.      Bue...

Milky Way Behind Three Merlons (NASA photo by Donato Lioce) T anto ch’i’ vidi de le cose belle Che porta ‘l ciel, per un pertugio tondo. E q...

      This doesn't happen often. Before I wrote Tuesday's blog post, I suspected the subject could be a column in the newspaper. The...

      In my post  about going back-and-forth with CNN, I quote myself saying this, as a preface to explaining why the city needs every warm ...