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Highlights from my first time surfing with Lee and his brother.

A red, white and blue roundup of my weekend.

I have finally come to experience what my middle school language teacher would describe as an external conflict: Julia vs. Nature.  It was snonly a matter of time before the puns and the snow both got to be too much. I just got to a point where it went from being a peaceful winter wonderland, [...]

I’m back from both of these wonderful cultural meccas. Now it’s time to share the fruits of my camera’s labor. Captions included. London photo album Barcelona album

(This is not about professional wrestler names.) Last Thursday (June 4), I meant to write about the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Notice my use of the word massacre. I went to a protest on the west capitol lawn last Thursday while an intern covered a press conference of survivors going on at [...]

Coworker Nico and I decided to go to the Textile Museum in D.C. to try and do a whole multimedia package about an exhibit on ancient rugs from all over the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Eventually, this project will be in three forms: a video piece, an audio slide show and a [...]

This week in gestation: I just checked the DCist site and they’re reporting that the new baby western lowland gorilla born earlier this year at the National Zoo is a girl! The video of Mandara and her as-yet-unnamed baby is worth checking out because we could all use some more cute in our lives.

Best Of | 9:32 p.m. I made a “best of” all 128 photos I took today. I decided to convert them to black and white because my camera doesn’t really pick up on color as vibrantly as it should, and because history is always framed in black and white. I don’t normally incorporate such literal [...]

^This is probably one of the most popular buttons I’ve seen on people around D.C., and I might pick one up tomorrow too. (I have no Obama merchandise and it’s starting to make me sad; I was offered an Obama wall clock, nail clippers and shoelaces today.) I think it’s ironic that a nation so [...]