Bardo Museum, Tunis, Tunisia, 14 September, 2008

The Bardo Museum has one of the best collections of ancient Punic and Roman remains from what was the city of Carthage. Tunisia has been warred over and settled by virtually every imaginable tribal group you can name, and the pieces contained in the museum showed a...

Sousse, Tunisia, 12 September, 2008

Sousse is one of the larger towns in Tunisia and by far one of the most popular, both with Tunisians and Europeans, the latter of whom, riding the strength of the Pound, the Euro and recent Russian oil wealth, swarm the beaches throughout the summers. Tourism is...

Enfida, Tunisia, 10 September, 2008

Enfida is the mid-sized town that has been my home-base for most of my Tunisian explorations. I arrived here with a lovely traveling companion whose father is from these parts, and whose remaining family appear to be as plentiful as the sand that blows everywhere....

Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France, 5 September, 2008

Here are some photos taken at one of the most famous resting places in the world. Located in the 20th Arrondissement in Paris, the cemetery is home—such as it is—to some of France’s finest: Marcel Proust, Frederic Chopin, Honore de Balzac, Heloise and...

Factotum, Winter 2006

Factotum is a movie based upon the book of the same name by the poet Charles Bukowski. The movie was released in late 2005, stars Matt Dillon, Marisa Tomei and Lili Taylor, amongst others, and was directed by Bent Hamer (no, I’m not making that up). Though...