Graven Images · San Cristóbal hill (Cerro San Cristóbal) rises 300m above Santiago, Chile. On the hill are a park, a zoo, a Japanese garden, and some really great views when it’s not too polluted, but the summit is about that old-time religion, in this case Catholic. Pope John Paul II rode the funicular to the top and gave a mass, in 1987. I rode it last week, along with some French hipster tourists, in the car with the best view, which still has a plaque about John Paul ... [2 comments]
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone · There are no whales; but my Twitter account has been inoperative for the last 4 hours or so, via any and all clients. The earth’s background hum has suddenly fallen silent. I’m a river-of-news person on Twitter; I follow lots of people and often ignore it for hours and never worry what I might have missed, because if it’s important it’ll find me ... [3 comments]
