The signs read, "Brazil is quilombo residents; not one less quilombo" All over the Americas, when fugitive slaves had the op...

It's National Poetry Month , and also one of the busiest in the year for me (giving exams, reading theses, etc.), but I am aiming to po...

Last Wednesday, the sculptor and plastic artist John Chamberlain passed away . He was 84. I always think of him as Mr. Crushed Cars, thoug...

"When the scale of a human presence scattered across vast spaces seems unconceptualizable, as also the utter simplicity of certain g...

Today is Veterans Day , which I nearly forgot because, I'm embarrassed to say, we don't get it (or any other holidays, save the majo...

Reggie H. sent me and Ryan this photo today (it originally was posted on MostProper , a blog that features lots of "phyne sights"...