If we make it back

My latest. An original design, based on 1) images of shoes from Carolingian and early Christian art, 2) extant late Roman-era shoes, 3) period design motifs and 4) period construction techniques. I think they would have looked exotic but not eye-poppingly out-of-place in Charlemagne's court.


How we deal with this will be very telling. I suspect we'll ignore it, or call it an 'internal issue for China,' or something, at least until BushCheney's out of office, but it's a growing problem (and if XinHua acknowledges it, then it's probably getting hard to suppress). Predictably, India is staying out of it as much as possible (that's their policy, I presume it secures something like peace along their long border). It will affect the Olympics, though, perhaps even lead to some privately-organized boycotts, and therefore will affect trade, and that is the only thing that matters these days. Disrupt Chinese-American trade, and you've disrupted the global economy.

This is amazing, though, amazingly cool.


Georg Philip Telemann, Casey Jones, and Albert Einstein were all born on this day, in 1681, 1864, and 1879, respectively.

And in 1840, the Times reported that, for the second winter running, foal-like tracks, but 'of considerable size' were discovered, running for 12 miles through the glens of Orchy, Lyon and Lochay, south of the fairy-haunted Rannoch Moor in Scotland.