Blog Meridian

Hello, all. It's been fairly busy around here as the new semester approached and has now arrived and, moreover, combined with a dearth ...

It's been pretty quiet 'round these parts as the summer begins to wind down and August and the new semester approach. But I recentl...

Over at his excellent film blog, Scanners , Jim Emerson has an ongoing feature called the Opening Shots Projects. Here's its rationale ...

A stretch of the railroad between Fitchburg and Concord. Image found here . One would think that there'd be no need to write someth...

Fuentes, standing in front of the Aztec Sun Calendar at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Image found here . Carlos Fue...

The controversy over the claim that Vermeer used a camera obscura when painting now, with the recent discovery of this image, seems like p...

Terence Malick and Christian Bale, Austin, Texas, September 2011. Image found here . Dear Mr. Malick, I'm under no illusions her...

. . . it's okay if it passed without your knowing. No fireworks, no mass rallies, not even a mention on the cable news chyrons. It was...

Your correspondent's arrival to last Tuesday's department meeting? Naah--it's really Tompkins H. Matteson's Rip Van Winkle...

Lee's caption : "Mary Alice and Fluffles, the morning they pulled the big bank job." Tumblr accounts, you may have heard, ...

Room for the Sky , taken somewhere in Chase County, Kansas, by Dave Leiker. Click on image to enlarge. Image found here . As mentioned in ...