Social Capital in South Africa
In 2000 sociologist Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone. No, I haven’t read it yet, but the title sums up his central observation: across the United States league bowling is on the decline. Putnam is concerned by this because it is representative of the...[Sunday] Come Walk with Me
Like many, like most I assume, Sundays are my favorite days. The eerie silence that first weighs on you with awkwardness and then picks you up, slowly, like a buoyant body ten feet below a salty sea. The still silence of Sunday morning has the opposite effect of the...![[Slowly] Zagreb](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/blue-tram-zagreb.jpg?resize=424%2C283)
[Slowly] Zagreb
I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve found myself walking around some foreign city, knowing neither the language nor the currency, and staring into the coupled conversations of comfortable coffeehouse confines. How’s that for alliteration?...Notes on an Airplane
Least recommended movie to watch with your grandparents: Superbad Places I don’t remember seeing advertisements five years ago: menu at the Cheesecake Factory, pre-previews at the movie theater, between rotating flight information on an airplane. Number of scuba...
Venezuela: On Subterranean Transportation
Subways, I love them. The door to the carriage opens, it closes, and your two or five or 15 minutes of silent intimacy with people you’ve never met begins. Like unacquainted sardines. Like a colony of seals piled upon each other in stoic orgy. We’re rich,...Latest Photos
