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Andrei and Leon. Andrei pays $1500 to coyotes each summer to smuggle him across the border from Romania to wait on tables in London at sub minimum wage so he can pay for school back in Iași. Oh wait, I'm confusing him with every worker you have interacted with in the U.S. since the Second World War. Leon wishes his hand were somewhere else. |
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David Kaplowitz. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of Madlyn or Zac, or the amazing Indian food. |
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A view of St. Mary's hospital from the bathroom in St. George's Hotel near Paddington. |
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It's a shame that such paranoia surrounds taking pictures in the London Underground these days --- why would anyone do it except to plan the next bombing? Unless it were to document some of the remarkable 19th century ironwork that graces all the older parts of the transit system. All the vents in your house should look like this. |
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An Art Nouveau ticket booth in Edgware road. Why don't modern ticket booths look this snazzy? It's much easier to fabricate cool stuff now than it was a hundred years ago. |
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This statue frozenly leaps from a building on the road to the British Museum. Is that a very fancy jump rope or a very plain boa? “Her admirers — middle-aged men and clergymen — respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.” — Graham Greene on Shirley Temple. 20th Century Fox brought a libel action against him for this published assertion and won. |
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The Rosetta Stone, on exhibit at the British Museum. |
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The lobby had some sculptures made from turned-in weapons. |
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Downstairs, there are a few rooms of African art. This barrel-distorted image depicts the accession of Haile Selassie. Considering the overall quality of gods elevated by the human race, it's not surprising Jesus has got the nod lately. |
