September, 2009 Archive

Chasing the weather.

September 28th, 2009 | RI, history, images | No comments

A quick and torrential rain just fell through my office window drenching the curtains. In a second floor apartment, one doesn’t worry too much about flash floods. Terrible flooding in Manila after tropical storm Ketsana raged for nine hours. Areas under 20 feet of water. Storm namers need to retire the letter ‘K’ for a [...]

Serena inspired : from pain to pretty

September 14th, 2009 | MA, images | No comments

Maybe Serena’s yelling spree put me in the mood for painful sports images. Or I could be cranky on Mondays. Either way, when I saw Mike Cassese’s Reuters photo of a foul ball embedded in the cheek of Minnesota Twins Justin Morneau - I went looking for more peak action moments of the uncomfortable sort.

Not [...]