The New Yorker on the end of The Beard

As an era comes to an end in Cuba, what will America do (if anything) about the changes that are happening 90 miles off her coast...

clipped from www.newyorker.com Comment Fidel’s Farewell by Alma Guillermoprieto March 3, 2008 Text Size: Small Text Medium Text Large Text Print E-Mail Feeds Keywords Castro, Fidel; Retirement; Cuba; Castro, Raúl; Dictators; Cubans; Socialists And that it should end so ingloriously! No fighting to the last man at the battlements, no martyr’s surrender to an assassin’s bullet, only a creaking, shuffling exit through the ward’s doors, hospital gown flapping. We are less than a year away from the half-century marker of a most astonishing marathon, but even this artist of endurance must bow to fate and acknowledge that it’s time to go. Vámonos, Fidel: no one is standing in the way.

365 Portraits - #293 ~ Dominic "Dom" Eddolls

365 Portraits - #293 ~ Dominic "Dom" Eddolls, originally uploaded by Oliver_Godby.

Last night Dom saved my bacon... I needed to find a subject quickly as I had lots to do(tm), and so I was dead chuffed when he agreed to stand in. I now have a new 'full set' as Dom is Ashton's (#220) brother and so Cat (#215) being his brother's partner and them all living in the same house makes them one of the 'domestic sets' that I have collected in the course of this project. and in this case they have all been photographed __in__ the house that they share. Thanks Dom, and thanks guys for being a part of this :-)