Valuable Tokens
24 December 2008 | Philly Skyline
Coming down from the Ben Franklin Bridge the winter city greets us, a night scene rarely so jeweled.
Posts tagged with “Independence National Historic Park”
Slam Bunting
8 May 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
Here is the Orwellian gesture suitable for a nation accustomed to believing surface pronouncements, no matter how false and self-deceiving. Perhaps tourists don’t get the irony.
“Highway and the City”
13 November 2007
Perhaps because this is a collection of essays written over time (New Yorker “Skyline” columns and others) and not a single piece of art, this book feels utterly contemporary, as if it might have been a collection of website postings. .
Out Among The Ruins
Perhaps you know it as wild bergamot — that’s the lighter purple and shorter cousin with the same fluted flowers that so amuse the hummingbirds — and the equally riveted hummingbird moths (those with coats of winter velvet, long snouts and two antennae, who also flap their wings as if there is no tomorrow).
Happy Valentines Day With Love, The National Park Service
14 February 2007 | Philly Skyline
I gleefully hurled your bullshit caution tape into the trash cans. Children smiled upon me. I asked them wouldn’t they like to play in the park on a snowy day?