Go West (of Bristol)

The lovely and talented Nicky Storr has opened her photo blog "West of Bristol" over at www.westofbristol.com.  Click over to check out her galleries, subscribe to future updates and leave a nice comment or two.  Nothing too nice, though - I hear her husband is the jealous type.


See you Wednesday for the low-down on Coronation Street, The Only Way is Essex and other touchstones of British culture in "So You Want to Go to England:  The People"

Photo Gallery: The Lonesome Creepy - Waiting

Of all the things that smartphones can do - help us cheat at pub trivia nights or avoid having to talk to strangers, for example - their greatest feature has to be the camera. Having a reasonably capable camera in your pocket at all times is useful when your friends and associates decide to do something blackmail-worthy or when, like me, you’re walking around at three in the morning and say, “That looks spooky.” Portability, and the fact that it does all the heavy lifting for you as far as settings are concerned, has allowed me to use my iPhone to capture images I never would have bothered with if I'd had to lug around a camera the size of Optimus Prime's lower 48. 

In Pictures: Occupy Victoria

Today in Victoria, protesters came out in support of the Occupy Wall Street  movement.  My good friend Dan Eastabrook of Real Life, Real Light photography was on hand and has provided some of his photos for us here:

In Pictures: Sprawlapalooza, or That Time I Agreed With the Man in the Hemp Trousers

Reading is for suckers.  Click the video below to have the article read to you in my dulcet tones:

What is it that makes Victoria so special?  It could be any number of things I suppose: a mild climate, clean streets, or the Mr. Magoo-like way city hall overlooks the thriving sex and drug trades while fussing over how new downtown liquor licenses will affect public morality.  Perhaps it’s the way so many talented people nod knowingly when the discussion turns to the job market and how it’s harder to get into than Doris Day’s business back when the getting was good.  Or the heartstring-tugging way they wave goodbye, like kids on the way to a weekend at their mother’s, when’ve run out of money and steam and they light out for points east, taking all their enthusiasm and creativity with them.