The first time I walked by the Texas Embassy, I did a double take. Surely Texas doesn’t have its own embassy in the UK? That would be bizarre, but not completely unexpected given the inflated ego of the state’s residents (and I say this as a Californian ). Well, as [...]

Photos from my January 3-11, 2010 return to London, with day trips to snow-covered Oxford and Gloucester.

Not that it’s really been a bad year. Hell, I made it out to Costa Rica, China, and North Korea, so 2009 was quite fantastic. Except for one slight, uh, problem. A few weeks ago I was laid off from my job and am now unemployed. But more on that later, [...]

Via Transport for London comes this new ad campaign regarding the dangers of illegal cabs. Now if only DC had a competent agency like TFL to regulate cabs I might be willing to take them more often. London cabbies are truly the best in the world.

London does quite well. Washington? Eh…
New York takes the #1 spot. Still, I could never live there.

Despite having left London in September 2005, I still have yet to upload all the photos from the year I spent there. Here’s a few from the popular London tourist attraction, Madame Tussauds wax museum, otherwise known as the most famous “tourist trap” in the city. Crystal and I went there one late [...]