Archive for September, 2006

Animals

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Yes, this is an entry partially about Steve Irwin.

I am now imagining that once his children grow up, they will go a mission to track down the stingray that killed their father and take their revenge upon it a la The Life Aquatic. I think that would be awesome.

Conversation between Gennie and I at the pet shop yesterday:
Gennie (looking at a big bird cage containing 20-30 brightly coloured budgerigars): Looks like they're having a cocktail party.
Andrew: Or a cockatiel party.
Gennie looks around for something heavy to throw at Andrew.

Photographs - Summer 2006

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006


New York, 17th August


Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Marblehead, Massachusetts, 19th August


Boston, 21st August



We went to the museum of fine art, but it caught fire.


The spire of the old North church.


Boston public garden, 22nd August



Make way for ducklings!


Chicago, 23rd-28th August


The Museum of Science and Industry, the only in-place surviving building from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.


Some of the streets around the University of Chicago are lit by old fashioned gas powered lamps! They were the real deal, you could feel the heat coming off them.


The Roosevelt Metra light railway station is very rickety and looks ancient.



Cakes in the display window of Bombon Americano.



The Art Institute of Chicago.




Millennium Park, Chicago.


A Monkey at Lincoln Park Zoo.





Views from the observation deck of the John Hancock tower.


Puppet Bike.