the arts – Gecko's Bark

A Month In a Bucolic Paradise (9/11/2016)
Arriving in Nong Khai, Thailand (9/5/2016)
A Belated So Long and Farewell, Isara Foundation (8/20/2016)
A Winter’s Sleep (2/13/2016)
Walking in the Woods (10/18/2015)
Jeff Does Drag (3/21/2015)
The Good Old (Drunken) Days (3/4/2015)
There Once Was a Kid Named Jeff (2/17/2015)
Pseudo Soi Dog (7/9/2013)
Photo a Day: Fallen Idol? (7/8/2013)
Picking Up the Slack: Slight Return … (7/7/2013)
The Slack Has Been Picked Up (7/6/2013)
Photo a Day: More Portrait Professional (6/30/2013)
Portrait Professional for a Dummy (6/29/2013)
Soi Dogs? What About Cafe Cats? (6/28/2013)
Photo a Day: Pigeon of Doom (6/27/2013)
Photo a Day: Babe in Arms (6/26/2013)
Time Lapse Photos and Video in Photoshop CS6 (6/25/2013)
An (Old) Boy and His Dog (6/24/2013)
Rest Your Weary Bones (6/23/2013)
Sala Keoku: Sewer Bass Feeding Frenzy (6/22/2013)
Sala Keoku: the Need for a Polarizing Filter (6/21/2013)
Sala Keoku: an Asura (6/20/2013)
Down and Out with a Head Cold (6/19/2013)
We Interrupt Sala Keoku for Soi Chaiyapoon (6/16/2013)
You Just Can’t Have Enough Giant Snakes (6/15/2013)
If a Tree Growing Out of a Buddha’s Head Falls … (6/14/2013)
Sala Keoku: Seven Heads Better than One (6/13/2013)
And Yet Still More Sala Keoku (6/12/2013)
An Indiana Jones Set Piece: Sala Keoku (6/11/2013)
Photo a Day: Thai Gargoyle? (6/10/2013)
It’s Not the Size of the Immigration Building … (6/9/2013)
Photo a Day: Um, What? Giant Skeleton? (6/8/2013)
Photo a Day x 3: Big Ass Bonus (6/7/2013)
Rank Hath Its Privileges (6/4/2013)
Photo a Day: Head on a Stick Edition (6/3/2013)
More from Sala Keoku (6/1/2013)
Photo a Day: J.J. Abrams is the Antichrist (5/31/2013)
Potted Plants as Sculpture (5/30/2013)
Soi Dogs? What of Soi Cats (5/29/2013)
Photo a Day: Hella Rad Graffiti (5/28/2013)
‘Til Death Do Us Part (5/27/2013)
Photo A Day: Tree Altar (5/26/2013)
Once Again, Ladies and Gentleman, Kiyomizu-dera (5/24/2013)
Photo a Day: Escargot On My Stoop (5/22/2013)
Highways Are Like Airports (5/21/2013)
Fountain and Reindeer Head in HDR (5/20/2013)
Photo a Day: Under the Boardwalk (5/19/2013)
From the Archives: Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto, Japan (5/18/2013)
Down on Da Shore, Yo! (5/17/2013)
Siam Paragon Gravity Well (5/16/2013)
Soi Dogs: 7-11 Edition (5/15/2013)
Day of the Dildo Triffids (5/14/2013)
Photo a Day: Another Soi Dog (5/13/2013)
Photo a Day: Tree in Black and White (5/12/2013)
Photo a Day: Keep Truckin’ On (Your Towel) (5/11/2013)
Photo a Day: 2 for 1 Sunset (5/9/2013)
Stinky Photo a Day: Durian Edition (5/8/2013)
Spam Poetry by Omarah Martinez (5/7/2013)
I’m No. 1. It Says So Right There (5/7/2013)
So I Missed a (Photo a) Day (5/6/2013)
Ever Vigilant: Photo a Day (5/6/2013)
Soi Dog at the Beach (5/4/2013)
Photo a Day with Est: Phoning it In (5/3/2013)
Bangkok ‘Hood in HDR (5/2/2013)
Documenting a Drinking Problem (5/1/2013)
Photo a Day: Soi Dog No. 1 (4/30/2013)
Photo a Day: Wood Sprites (4/29/2013)
Weather’s Here, Wish You Were Nice (4/28/2013)
At the Gates of the HDR Shrine (4/27/2013)
Submitted, Without Comment: Photo a Day (4/26/2013)
Suset Photo of a Day (4/25/2013)
Photo a Day: Rainy Day at the Beach (4/24/2013)
Photo a Day: Back to Thai School Edition (4/23/2013)
Life and Death: a Photo a Day (4/22/2013)
Photo a Day, Bangkok ‘Hood Edition (4/21/2013)
Coconuts in the Sun: a Photo a Day (4/20/2013)
Inaugural Photo A Day Entry (4/19/2013)
Saint Patrick’s Day Parade a la Pattaya (3/19/2013)
No, Really: I’m Still Here, Still Teaching (9/14/2012)
In Which the Gecko Barks About Books (4/19/2012)
Confessions of a Compulsive Bibliolater (2/18/2012)
(What’s So Funny About) Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and ESL Anyway? (2/14/2012)
Cross Posting Love: Barking Book Reviews (5/24/2011)
Entropy and Douchebaggery (5/17/2011)
Living in the Future is Cool (4/28/2011)
In Which I Call the Internet (4/15/2011)
Farewell to Denis Dutton, Arts & Letters Daily Founder, Editor (12/31/2010)
Saddle Up, Effendi. We Ride! (11/3/2010)
Dear Powers-that-Be, Re: Ari Up … (10/25/2010)
Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin. Or, Dammit, Jim, I’m a Teacher, Not a Clown! (10/25/2010)
Cleaning Out the Darkroom (10/24/2010)
The Tokay Crooned at Midnight (10/8/2010)
Sabai Dee Phi Mai Krab! (4/13/2010)
“I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.” (1/30/2010)
Interstitial Chevette (10/21/2009)
Irving Penn: the Day the Platinum Print Died (10/16/2009)
On the Road at 3 a.m. with Bobby and Beth (8/12/2009)
No, Not Even Close (8/7/2009)
The Disc Doctor Has Left the Building (6/27/2009)
Picofarad: A Woman of Mettle (6/26/2009)
Clear Hearts and Gray Flowers (2/16/2009)
Um … yeah … Yeah! (1/21/2009)
And laugh–but smile no more: that’s apropoe! (1/19/2009)
To the last, I grapple with thee … (12/1/2008)
lolcats (11/14/2008)
It’s a Small World and it Smells Bad (11/4/2008)
Goodnight Opus. All Good Things … (11/4/2008)
I (10/23/2008)
Blue Pill, Slight Return (10/2/2008)
Shoulda Taken the Blue Pill (9/28/2008)
The Birds, Part Deaux (9/24/2008)
Huzzah! (9/11/2008)
Opening up a Can of Worms … or is that Stop Bath? (9/4/2008)
ZOMG! The rumors are true … (8/26/2008)
Quoth the raven: hypocrisy kills kittens and makes baby Jeebus cry (5/31/2008)
The ballad of Crista and Fitch (5/2/2008)
Every pop song should be 2:42? (4/17/2008)
“The truth, as always, will be far stranger.” (3/18/2008)
Get your paws off me, you damn dirty shoppers! (11/23/2007)
I Wouldn’t Be Just Any Comic-strip Lesbian … (10/27/2007)
In Defense of Britney—no, Really (9/10/2007)
A Bientot, Vonnegut (4/12/2007)
Don’t Dick Philip K. ‘Cuz You Saw the Movie First (4/10/2007)
Yay! (4/6/2007)
Carrying (Historically Accurate) Pictures of Chairman Mao (3/29/2007)
The End of All Things … Or, I (3/27/2007)
Say It Ain’t So, Joan … (3/22/2007)
In Andy Warhol’s Throne Room (3/22/2007)
Alas, Hoyden, We Hardly Knew Ye … (3/5/2007)
Notes from a Coffee Shop: Fish is NOT a Gateway Drug (2/9/2007)
Liberal Media Bias? Safire Gets a Medal from Dubya … (12/15/2006)
Why Uncle Jeff is an Ethical Anarchist (12/7/2006)
Disembarking from the Love Boat (12/4/2006)
Racy Li Ninja’ed My Tiptree Post (11/20/2006)
Book Review: A Tip on the Tiptree Bio (11/16/2006)
We Are Not Men: Through Being Cool (11/13/2006)