new orleans cemeteries

I just posted some photos I took of two famous old New Orleans Cemeteries.

Check them out at Picasa.

what opera are you?

The Metropolitan has a clever quiz on its website that supposedly tells you what opera you're most compatible with.

I took it and got Verdi's "Il Trovatore."

Quoting: "People just don’t get you sometimes. But you’re not crazy—the world is. Just look around! Your responses are the only sane reactions to an off-kilter world. Can’t anybody else see this? Actually, Verdi did, and his masterful vision of a world gone mad, Il Trovatore, has been as misunderstood by prosaic minds as you often are."

Which is (a) scary close to the way I see myself, and (b) prompted me to buy tickets to go see trovatore the end of April. Here's to online marketing!

the ubiquity of distress

A friend just sent me a link to this post on the NY Times Blog. It's interesting and scary like most financial reporting these days. But I am particularly taken with the title...I may have to rename this (sad and forsaken) blog.